Ferment

Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

·noun Intestine motion; heat; tumult; agitation.

II. Ferment ·vi To be agitated or excited by violent emotions.

III. Ferment ·noun That which causes fermentation, as yeast, barm, or fermenting beer.

IV. Ferment ·noun A gentle internal motion of the constituent parts of a fluid; fermentation.

V. Ferment ·noun To cause ferment of fermentation in; to set in motion; to excite internal emotion in; to Heat.

VI. Ferment ·vi 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.