Brewing

vbl. sb. [f. BREW v. + -ING¹.]

  1.  The action, process or occupation described under BREW (various senses).

1467.  Bury Wills (1850), 46. I will that the seid Denys haue here esement in the bakhows in lawfull tyme for bruynge.

1562.  J. Heywood, Prov. & Epigr. (1867), 179. Great brewyng, small drinke.

1663.  Gerbier, Counsel, 5. Nor is a Laboratorium … fit either for Baking or Brewing.

1777.  Macbride, in Phil. Trans., LXVIII. 122. You will have a second brewing of lime-water.

1855.  Macaulay, Hist. Eng., IV. 585. Sir John Friend … had made a very large fortune by brewing.

  b.  fig. Concoction, preparation.

1545.  Joye, Exp. Dan. xi. (R.). The miserable mutacions of kingdoms nowe … in brewing.

1601.  Holland, Pliny, XIV. vi. (R.). Such a brewing and sophistication of them they make.

1673.  [R. Leigh], Transpr. Reh., 39. This is a Plot … this has been a brewing any time this Thirty years.

1854.  Alford, in Life (1873), 237. I have an Edinburgh article in brewing.

  2.  The quantity of liquor brewed at once.

1627.  Bacon, Sylva, § 314 (1628), (J.). A Brewing of New Beere, set by Old Beere, maketh it worke againe.

1753.  Scots Mag., Aug., 393/2. Distilling the second draught of a brewing of aqua-vitæ.

  3.  Naut. A collection of black clouds betokening a storm.

  4.  attrib. and Comb., † brewing-lead, a vessel for brewing in.

1885.  Civilian, 3 Jan., 130/1. An Act … to make it compulsory that every collection of worts be entered in the *brewing-book within one hour.

1551–60.  Inv., in H. Hall, Soc. Elizab. Age (1886), 152. In the Brewhouse A *Brewing Copper.

1702.  Lond. Gaz., No. 3855/4. Utensils proper … for a *Brewing house.

1444.  Test. Ebor., II. 100. Lego … i. *brewinglede.

1504.  Bury Wills (1850), 101. I wull that they shall haue all brewyng ledys.

1694.  Lond. Gaz., No. 2991/4. The Greyhound in Ipswich … with a convenient *Brewing Office.

1838.  Dickens, O. Twist (1850), 110/1. A scullery, or small *brewing-place, at the end of the passage.

1766.  Goldsm., Vic. W., xvii. We shall then have the loan of his cider-press and *brewing-tubs for nothing.

1863.  Times, 6 March, 5/4. Another rickety booth holds the brewing utensils.

1462.  Test. Ebor., II. 256. A cesterne, the ledes, with other *brewing-vessell.