2. Intestine motion; heat; tumult; agitation. Subdue and cool the ferment of desire. Rogers. the nation is in a ferment. Walpole. in a ferment in a state of agitation, applied to human groups.
3. A gentle internal motion of the constituent parts of a fluid; fermentation. [R.] Down to the lowest lees the ferment ran. Thomson. ferment oils, volatile oils produced by the fermentation of plants, and not originally contained in them. These were the quintessences of the alchenists. Ure.
FERMENT
Fer*ment", v. t. [imp. & p. p. Fermented; p. pr. & vb. n.
Fermenting.] Etym: [L. fermentare, fermentatum: cf. F. fermenter. See
Ferment, n.]
Defn: To cause ferment of fermentation in; to set in motion; to excite internal emotion in; to heat. Ye vigorous swains! while youth ferments your blood. Pope.
FERMENT
Fer*ment", v. i.
1. To undergo fermentation; to be in motion, or to be excited into sensible internal motion, as the constituent oarticles of an animal or vegetable fluid; to work; to effervesce.
2. To be agitated or excited by violent emotions. But finding no redress, ferment an rage. Milton. The intellect of the age was a fermenting intellect. De Quincey.
FERMENTABILITY
Fer*ment`a*bil"i*ty, n.
Defn: Capability of fermentation.
FERMENTABLE
Fer*ment"a*ble, a. Etym: [Cf. F. fermentable.]