noun
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A plant; herb; vegetable.
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Any of various plants or herbs, used in combination to refer to specific plants such as St. John's wort, or on its own as a generic term.
Examples of wort in a Sentence
Brewers' wort remains unchanged for years, milk keeps permanently sweet, and these and other complex liquids remain unaltered when freely exposed to air from which all these minute organisms are removed.
In fermentInvertase ing wort and Glucase.
The well-known "Danzig-spruce" is prepared by adding a decoction of the buds or cones to the wort or saccharine liquor before fermentation.
This character is the base of the plan of adding glucose to wine and beer wort before fermenting, the alcohol content of the liquid after fermentation being increased.
It would be impossible to trace in detail the wort' done by the different societies since Carey's time.
He was appointed a Wort's travelling bachelor 1818, and spent some time in Italy and Sicily, afterwards publishing an account of his journey.
See also Die OsterreichischUngarische Monarchie in Wort and Bild (Wien, 1886-1902, 24 vols.); volume xii., published in 1893, is devoted to Budapest.
St John's Wort appears to take longer than prescription antidepressants to reach maximum effect.
Five years ago, Julian Wort collapsed and died, aged 28, from hypertrophic obstructive cardiomyopathy.
St. Joan's wort oil stops cold sores in their tracks and can even relieve genital herpes symptoms.
Meanwhile, is St John's wort a way forward for the mildly depressed?
Carrageenan copper finings help to settle out malt protein and the hop bed is used to filter the hopped wort.
By inhibiting MAO and increasing norepinephrine, St John's Wort may exert a mild antidepressive action.
Don't take St. John's Wort with the herb Yohimbe, which also contains monoamine oxidase.
In the second stage, the wort is cooled to the fermentation temperature by a secondary refrigerant, e.g., glycol.
Other typical downland flowers found here are wild thyme, yellow wort, sainfoin, cowslip and stemless thistle.
St. Joan's wort tincture - not capsules, not the tea - is a powerful ally for women with fibromyalgia.
It subsequently transpired that the patient was taking St John's wort at the time of the treatment.
The liquid wort is then transferred to large vats called mash tuns.
Although lauter tuns are widely employed for wort separation, some large-volume brewers prefer mash filters.
Irish Moss A seaweed that is added to boiling wort to filter proteins.
This cools the wort to the correct temperature for adding the yeast (pitching ).
The resulting solution is called wort which is high in dissolved sugars.
Our focus will be to maximize the quality and consistency of the fermented wort or wash ahead of distilling.
Wort wort Wort or sweet wort is how the liquor is described once the mashed barley malt grains have been filtered out.
The second wort was drained off from the mash and then boiled in the copper for four hours, exactly as the first wort.
The larvae of this species feeds on milk wort.
Mr and Mrs wort then went on to raise more funds and donated a defibrillator to Frome Victoria Hospital.
Basil Valentine wrote that when yeast was added to wort "an internal inflammation is communicated to the liquid, so that it raises in itself, and thus the segregation and separation of the feculent from the clear takes place."
St. Joan 's wort tincture - not capsules, not the tea - is a powerful ally for women with fibromyalgia.
It subsequently transpired that the patient was taking St John 's wort at the time of the treatment.
St John 's wort flower can help some people with depression (and valerian root will aid sleep if needed).
This cools the wort to the correct temperature for adding the yeast (pitching).
The wort produced was distilled twice in pot stills giving the spirit.
Wort Wort or sweet wort is how the liquor is described once the mashed barley malt grains have been filtered out.
Yellow Wort was in flower in the afternoon for the images on the right hand side above.
Using St. John 's wort extract can significantly relieve the symptoms of depression.
Because St John 's Wort preparations are so widely available, your patients may be taking them without your knowledge.
Yellow Wort flowers were closed in the heat of the afternoon.
The mash tun, traditionally used in Britain, is integrated to serve as a masher as well as a vessel for wort separation.
The larvae of this species feeds on Milk wort.
Mr and Mrs Wort then went on to raise more funds and donated a defibrillator to Frome Victoria Hospital.
In Germany doctors prescribe St John 's Wort for depression.
Lemon balm and St. John's Wort can be applied as a tincture to the affected area.
St. John's Wort, on the other hand, has been shown to have a long-term effect on anxiety and depression when taken regularly under the supervision of a health care provider.St.
John's Wort is available in tinctures, capsules, tablets and teas.
Perhaps the most widely studied herbal antidepressant is St. John's Wort, or Hypericum perforatum.
Research results on the efficacy of St. John's wort have been inconsistent, with some studies finding the herb to be as effective as selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRIs) and others finding it no more effective than a placebo.
If you decide to give St. John's wort a try, do so only with the approval of your physician, especially if you are currently taking other medications.
Although St. John's wort typically causes only mild side effects, it has been shown to interfere with the absorption of certain prescription medications, including HIV medicine, anticancer drugs, heart medications and birth control pills.