[f. as prec. + -ING1.] The action of the vb. FERMENT; also attrib.
1471. Ripley, Comp. Alch., IX. in Ashm. (1652), 173. Fermentyng in dyvers maners is don.
1831. Carlyle, Sart. Res. (1858), 13. Oh, under that hideous coverlet of vapours, and putrefactions, and unimaginable gases, what a Fermenting-vat lies simmering and hid!
1846. J. Baxter, Libr. Pract. Agric. (ed. 4), II. 415. Twenty gallons in each fermenting tub.
1856. Kane, Arct. Expl., II. xi. 37. I have given up my writing-table arrangements, and my unfortunate study-lamp is now fixed under a barrel to see if it cannot raise a fermenting temperature.
