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Old and New London
… allowing hotter water than the first. When the liquor, or wort, as it is called, is drawn from the copper duly boiled, the hop dregs are strained off, and the wort must be cooled as fast as possible, otherwise the … a larger proportion of hop will hardly save it. When the wort is quite cool it is to be fermented. Wine from grapes …
Dictionary of Traded Goods and Commodities
… effect on the kidneys. It could be made from a normal MALT wort or, according to Sambrook, more usually from an unhopped TREACLE or SUGAR wort. In either case an ESSENCE OF SPRUCE was then added …
Dictionary of Traded Goods and Commodities
… St Johns wort - Stammet St Johns wort [st johns-wort; st john's wort] The common English name for plants of …
Dictionary of Traded Goods and Commodities
… OED earliest date of use: 1611 Found described as LARGE, WORT Sources: Inventories (early), Inventories (mid-period), …
An Essay towards a Topographical History of the County of Norfolk
… chanced to be absent, then they were like St. John's wort, (so sovereign for sores, and against the plague …