v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Stummed p. pr. & vb. n. Stumming. ] To renew, as wine, by mixing must with it and raising a new fermentation. [ 1913 Webster ]

We stum our wines to renew their spirits. Floyer. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ D. stom must, new wort, properly, dumb; cf. F. vin muet stum. Cf. Stammer, Stoom. ] 1. Unfermented grape juice or wine, often used to raise fermentation in dead or vapid wines; must. [ 1913 Webster ]

Let our wines, without mixture of stum, be all fine. B. Jonson. [ 1913 Webster ]

And with thy stum ferment their fainting cause. Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Wine revived by new fermentation, reulting from the admixture of must. Hudibras. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. A trip in walking or running. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A blunder; a failure; a fall from rectitude. [ 1913 Webster ]

One stumble is enough to deface the character of an honorable life. L'Estrange. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. [ imp. & p. p. Stumbled p. pr. & vb. n. Stumbling ] [ OE. stumblen, stomblen; freq. of a word akin to E. stammer. See Stammer. ] 1. To trip in walking or in moving in any way with the legs; to strike the foot so as to fall, or to endanger a fall; to stagger because of a false step. [ 1913 Webster ]

There stumble steeds strong and down go all. Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

The way of the wicked is as darkness: they know at what they stumble. Prov. iv. 19. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To walk in an unsteady or clumsy manner. [ 1913 Webster ]

He stumbled up the dark avenue. Sir W. Scott. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. To fall into a crime or an error; to err. [ 1913 Webster ]

He that loveth his brother abideth in the light, and there is none occasion og stumbling in him. 1 John ii. 10. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. To strike or happen (upon a person or thing) without design; to fall or light by chance; -- with on, upon, or against. [ 1913 Webster ]

Ovid stumbled, by some inadvertency, upon Livia in a bath. Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

Forth as she waddled in the brake,
A gray goose stumbled on a snake. C. Smart. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. 1. To cause to stumble or trip. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Fig.: To mislead; to confound; to perplex; to cause to err or to fall. [ 1913 Webster ]

False and dazzling fires to stumble men. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

One thing more stumbles me in the very foundation of this hypothesis. Locke. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who stumbles. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Any cause of stumbling, perplexity, or error. [ 1913 Webster ]

We preach Christ crucified, unto the Jews a stumbling-block, and unto the Greeks foolishness. 1 Cor. i. 23. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. In a stumbling manner. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A stumbling-block. [ 1913 Webster ]

This stumbling-stone we hope to take away. T. Burnet. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Stumped p. pr. & vb. n. Stumping. ] 1. To cut off a part of; to reduce to a stump; to lop. [ 1913 Webster ]

Around the stumped top soft moss did grow. Dr. H. More. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To strike, as the toes, against a stone or something fixed; to stub. [ Colloq. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

3. To challenge; also, to nonplus. [ Colloq. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

4. To travel over, delivering speeches for electioneering purposes; as, to stump a State, or a district. See To go on the stump, under Stump, n. [ Colloq. U.S. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

5. (Cricket) (a) To put (a batsman) out of play by knocking off the bail, or knocking down the stumps of the wicket he is defending while he is off his allotted ground; -- sometimes with out. T. Hughes. (b) To bowl down the stumps of, as, of a wicket. [ 1913 Webster ]

A herd of boys with clamor bowled,
And stumped the wicket. Tennyson. [ 1913 Webster ]

To stump it. (a) To go afoot; hence, to run away; to escape. [ Slang ] Ld. Lytton. (b) To make electioneering speeches. [ Colloq. U.S. ] [ 1913 Webster ]