transferred. Of beer and wine. To froth, mantle. Obsolete.

Of wines, etc.: To effervesce with small glittering bubbles, due to the presence or rising of carbonic-acid gas.

Of wine, beer, etc.: To sparkle. ? Obsolete.

intransitive. To effervesce, form froth, as wine or beer. In past participle, effervescing, brisk; not still or dead.