brew

brew
1. verb /bruː/
a) To prepare (usually a beverage) by steeping and mingling; to concoct.

Go, brew me a pottle of sack finely.

b) To foment or prepare, as by brewing; to contrive; to plot; to hatch.

Hence with thy brewed enchantments, foul deceiver!

2. noun /bruː/
a) The mixture formed by brewing; that which is brewed; a brewage.
b) A beer.

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