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Malt   /mɔlt/   Listen
noun
Malt  n.  Barley or other grain, steeped in water and dried in a kiln, thus forcing germination until the saccharine principle has been evolved. It is used in brewing and in the distillation of whisky.



verb
Malt  v. t.  (past & past part. malted; pres. part. malting)  To make into malt; as, to malt barley.



Malt  v. i.  To become malt; also, to make grain into malt.



adjective
Malt  adj.  Relating to, containing, or made with, malt.
Malt liquor, an alcoholic liquor, as beer, ale, porter, etc., prepared by fermenting an infusion of malt.
Malt dust, fine particles of malt, or of the grain used in making malt; used as a fertilizer. " Malt dust consists chiefly of the infant radicle separated from the grain."
Malt floor, a floor for drying malt.
Malt house, or Malthouse, a house in which malt is made.
Malt kiln, a heated chamber for drying malt.






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"Malt" Quotes from Famous Books



... merchant is involved to a large amount he accepts a failure as total shipwreck without insurance, passes it to his profit-and-loss account, and does not commit the folly of wasting time upon it; he contents himself with brewing his own malt. As to the petty trader, worried about his monthly payments, busied in pushing the chariot of his little fortunes, a long and costly legal process terrifies him. He gives up trying to see his way, imitates the substantial merchant, bows his ...
— Rise and Fall of Cesar Birotteau • Honore de Balzac

... the sale of spirituous or malt liquors on the Sabbath, and the bar rooms are closed from midnight on Saturday until Monday morning. The police have orders to arrest all persons violating this law. There is no doubt, however, that liquor can be obtained by those who are willing to incur the risk necessary to get it; ...
— The Secrets Of The Great City • Edward Winslow Martin

... Breakfast in bed. (Detail as to diet. Tonic, aperient, malt extract as ordered.) May read letters, paper, etc., if ...
— Fat and Blood - An Essay on the Treatment of Certain Forms of Neurasthenia and Hysteria • S. Weir Mitchell

... me," answered the man; "tea isn't malt liquor; it's poor stuff any way, and it doesn't matter to me whether it's got sugar in it or not, but it's moistenin', and that's what I want. Now, madam, I'll just say to you, if ever I break into a room where you're sleepin', I'll see that ...
— The Stories of the Three Burglars • Frank Richard Stockton

... first military power in the world drinks as much beer as all the rest of the universe together, and probably a little more. The commercial nation that undersells Englishmen in England, Frenchmen in France, Italians in Italy and Turks in Turkey, consumes more malt liquor than they drink of all other liquors. The intellectual race that has produced Kant, Goethe and Helmholtz, Bismarck, Moltke, Mommsen, and Richard Wagner in a century, swallows Homeric draughts of beer at breakfast, dinner and supper. That other nations do not follow their example, and laugh ...
— Greifenstein • F. Marion Crawford


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