Brew
brewed, brew-ing, brews.v. tr. 1. To make (ale or beer) from malt and hops by infusion, boiling, and fermentation.
2. To make (a beverage) by boiling, steeping, or mixing various ingredients: brew tea. 3. To concoct; devise: brew a plot to overthrow the government.v. intr. 1.
To make ale or beer as an occupation. 2. To be imminent; impend: "storms brewing on every frontier" (John Dos Passos).n. 1. A beverage made by brewing. A serving of such a beverage. 2. Something produced as if by brewing; a mix: Their politics were a strange brew of idealism and self-interest.[Middle English brewen, from Old English breowan. See bhreu-.]--brew'age n. --brew'er n.
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stock
(stok)n. Abbr. s., stk. 1. A supply accumulated for future use; a store. 2. The total merchandise kept on hand by a merchant, commercial establishment, warehouse, or manufacturer. 3. All the animals kept or raised on a farm; livestock. 4. The capital or fund that a corporation raises through the sale of shares entitling the stockholder to dividends and to other rights of ownership, such as voting rights. . . . The original progenitor of a family line.
The descendants of a common ancestor; a family line, especially of a specified character: comes from farming stock. Ancestry or lineage; antecedents. The type from which a group of animals or plants has descended. A race, family, or other related group of animals or plants. An ethnic group or other major division of the human race. A group of related languages. A group of related families of languages. 8. The raw material out of which something is made. 9. The broth in which meat, fish, bones, or vegetables are simmered for a relatively long period, used as a base in preparing soup, gravy, or sauces. 10. A main upright part, especially a supporting structure or block. stocks. Nautical. The timber frame that supports a ship during construction. A frame in which a horse or other animal is held for shoeing or for veterinary treatment. Often used in the plural. 11. stocks. A device consisting of a heavy timber frame with holes for confining the ankles and sometimes the wrists, formerly used for punishment. 12. Nautical. A crosspiece at the end of the shank of an anchor. 13. The wooden block from which a bell is suspended. 14. The rear wooden, metal, or plastic handle or support of a rifle, a pistol, or an automatic weapon, to which the barrel and mechanism are attached. The long supporting structure and mooring beam of field-gun carriages that trails along the ground to provide stability and support. 15. A handle, such as that of a whip, a fishing rod, or various carpentry tools. 16. The frame of a plow, to which the share, handles, coulter, and other parts are fastened. 17. A theatrical stock company. The repertoire of such a company. A theater or theatrical activity, especially outside of a main theatrical center: a small role in summer stock. 18. Botany. Any of several Eurasian and Mediterranean plants of the genus Matthiola in the mustard family, especially M. incana, widely cultivated for its clusters of showy, variously colored flowers. 19. Games. The portion of a pack of cards or of a group of dominoes that is not dealt out but is drawn from during a game. 20. Geology. A body of intrusive igneous rock of which less than 100 square kilometers (40 square miles) is exposed. 21. Zoology. A compound organism, such as a colony of zooids. 22. Personal reputation or status: a teacher whose stock with the students is rising. Confidence or credence: I put no stock in that statement. 23. A long white neckcloth worn as part of a formal riding habit. A broad scarf worn around the neck, especially by certain clerics. 24. Rolling stock.v. stocked, stock-ing, stocks.v. tr. 1. To provide or furnish with a stock of something, especially: To supply (a shop) with merchandise. To supply (a farm) with livestock. To fill (a stream, for example) with fish. 2. To keep for future sale or use. 3. To provide (a rifle, for example) with a stock. 4. Obsolete. To put (someone) in the stocks as a punishment.v. intr. 1. To gather and lay in a supply of something: stock up on canned goods. 2. To put forth or sprout new shoots. Used of a plant.adj. 1. Kept regularly in stock: a stock item. 2. Repeated regularly without any thought or originality; routine: a stock answer. 3. Employed in dealing with or caring for stock or merchandise: a stock clerk. 4. Of or relating to the raising of livestock: stock farming. Used for breeding: a stock mare. 5. Of or relating to a stock company or its repertoire. Of or being a conventional character or situation that recurs in many literary or cinematic works. --idiom. in stock. Available for sale or use; on hand. out of stock. Not available for sale or use.[Middle English stok, from Old English stocc, tree trunk.]--stock'age n. --stock'er n.
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com-fort
(kumfrt)v. tr. com-fort-ed, com-fort-ing, com-forts. 1. To soothe in time of affliction or distress. 2. To ease physically; relieve.n. 1. A condition or feeling of pleasurable ease, well-being, and contentment. 2. Solace in time of grief or fear. 3. Help; assistance: gave comfort to the enemy. 4. One that brings or provides comfort. 5. The capacity to give physical ease and well-being:
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keep-er
(kepr)n. 1. One that keeps, especially: An attendant, a guard, or a warden. One that has the charge or care of something: a lion keeper; the keeper of the budget. 2. Football. A play made by the quarterback who keeps the ball after it is snapped and then runs with it. 3. Informal. One that is worth keeping, especially a fish large enough to be legally caught.
Excerpted from American Heritage Talking Dictionary
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In
the
beginning,
*
that
it
was good:
**
that
Cain
rose up against
Abel
*
and
the
fruit
tree
yielding
fruit
after
his
kind,
whose seed
is in itself,
upon
the
earth:
and it was
so.
*
his
brother,
*
God created
the
heaven
*
So
God
created
man
in
his own image,
*
And
the
Lord
said
unto Cain,
Where
is
Abel
thy
brother?
And
he
said,
*
and
slew
him.
***
In
the
beginning
God
created
**
And God
said,
Behold,
I have given you every
herb
bearing seed,
which is upon
the
face
of
all
the
earth,
and
every
tree,
in
the
which
is
the
fruit
of
a
tree yielding seed;
to you
it shall
be for meat.
**
For
there
is
hope
of
a tree,
if it be cut down,
that
it
will
sprout
again,
and
that
the
tender branch
thereof
will not
cease.
Though
the
root
thereof
wax
old
in
the earth,
**
Yea,
they
shall
not be planted;
yea,
they
shall
not be sown:
yea,
their stock shall not take root in the earth:
and
he
shall also blow upon them, and they shall wither,
and
the
whirlwind shall take them away as stubble.
***
and
the
stock
there
of
die
in
the ground;
Yet
through the scent of water
it
will bud,
and
bring forth boughs like a plant.
**
And the high mountains shall be shaken,
And the high hills shall be made low,
And shall melt like wax before the flame
And the earth shall be wholly rent in sunder,
ISamuelAmAllah

