sweet-wortn.
/ˈswiːtwəːt/ A sweet-flavoured wort; esp. the infusion of malt, before the hops are added in the manufacture of beer. Also attributive.⁋Webster's (1847–54) definition ‘Any plant of a sweet taste’, copied by later dictionaries, cannot be authenticated.
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worteOE
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1567 in J. Raine Wills & Inventories Archdeaconry Richmond (1853) 203 In the bachousse and brewhouse..a swete worte toube.
1567 in J. Raine Wills & Inventories N. Counties Eng. (1835) I. 267 A lead, a maskfatt and a swett wort fatt.
1707 J. Mortimer Whole Art Husbandry (1721) I. 279 Of all Food [for bees], Honey is the best..if it is mixed well with a moderate Proportion of good Sweet-wort.
1793 T. Beddoes Observ. Nature & Cure Calculus 91 Sweet wort, or the extract of malt.
1853 C. Tomlinson Cycl. Useful Arts (1854) II. 769/1 This vitreous mass was formerly obtained by rapidly boiling down a concentrated solution of sugar in barley-water or sweet-wort, and hence the name of barley-sugar applied to sticks of it.
1876 J. Harley Royle's Man. Materia Med. (ed. 6) 322 Alcohol is obtained by the distillation of any saccharine fluid which has been subjected to fermentation. Sweet worts are formed for this purpose by the action of diastase on the starch of the cereals or the potato.
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