[f. BREWER; See -ERY. (Not in Johnson 1755–1773: nor Bailey, 1721–1800).]

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  1.  A place for brewing; the establishment of a public brewer; formerly called a BREWHOUSE.

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1658.  Hexham, Dutch Dict., Een Brouwerye, a Brewerie, or a brewing-house.

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1736.  J. McUre, View Glasgow, 285. There is a stately Brewarie belonging to Robert Luke … adjacent to the above great Tannarie.

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1722.  Priestley, in Phil. Trans., LXII. 148. Living … in the neighbourhood of a public brewery.

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1791.  Boswell, Johnson (1831), I. 506. The brewery was to be sold.

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1862.  Jrnl. Roy. Dublin Soc., April, 311. The director of the college … showed me also their brewery.

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1880.  Earl Dunraven, in 19th Cent., Sept., 446. The whole region [Colorado] is one vast brewery of storms.

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  † 2.  The process or trade of brewing; also, the ‘trade’ or body of brewers. Obs.

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a. 1714.  C. Davenant, Ess. Trade, I. 79 (L.). If they should bring any distress and trouble upon the London brewery, it would occasion the making ill drink.

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1796.  Morse, Amer. Geog., II. 121. The porter brewery … is also chiefly carried on in London.

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