Both Uses of
ferment
in
Jane Eyre
- Nobody knows how many rebellions besides political rebellions ferment in the masses of life which people earth.†
Chpt 12 *
- Mosquitoes came buzzing in and hummed sullenly round the room; the sea, which I could hear from thence, rumbled dull like an earthquake — black clouds were casting up over it; the moon was setting in the waves, broad and red, like a hot cannon-ball — she threw her last bloody glance over a world quivering with the ferment of tempest.†
Chpt 27
Definition:
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(ferment as in: ferment grapes) chemically change by a living agent -- such as when yeast or bacteria changes sugar to alcohol when making wine