brew

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

• intransitive verb To make (ale or beer) from malt and hops by infusion, boiling, and fermentation.
• intransitive verb To make (a beverage) by boiling, steeping, or mixing various ingredients.
• intransitive verb To concoct; devise.
• intransitive verb To make ale or beer as an occupation.
• intransitive verb To be made by boiling or steeping.
• intransitive verb To be imminent; impend.
• noun A beverage made by brewing.
• noun A serving of such a beverage.
• noun Something produced as if by brewing; a mix.

from The Century Dictionary.

• noun Obsolete form of bree (which see).
• To produce as a beverage by fermentation; prepare (beer, ale, or other similar liquor) from malt, or from malt and hops, or from other materials, by steeping, boiling, and fermentation.
• To prepare by mixing, boiling, or the like; mingle; mix; concoct: as, to brew a bowl of punch; “drinks brewed with several herbs,”
• To contrive; plot; prepare: as, to brew mischief.
• To conduct the operations or the business of brewing or making beer.
• To be in a state of preparation; be mixing, forming, or collecting; be impending: chiefly in the present participle: as, a storm is brewing in the west.
• noun The mixture formed by brewing; that which is brewed.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

• noun The mixture formed by brewing; that which is brewed.
• transitive verb obsolete To boil or seethe; to cook.
• transitive verb To prepare, as beer or other liquor, from malt and hops, or from other materials, by steeping, boiling, and fermentation.
• transitive verb To prepare by steeping and mingling; to concoct.
• transitive verb To foment or prepare, as by brewing; to contrive; to plot; to concoct; to hatch.
• intransitive verb To attend to the business, or go through the processes, of brewing or making beer.
• intransitive verb To be in a state of preparation; to be mixing, forming, or gathering.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

• verb transitive To prepare (usually a beverage) by steeping and mingling; to concoct.
• verb transitive To foment or prepare, as by brewing; to contrive; to plot; to hatch.
• verb intransitive To attend to the business, or go through the processes, of brewing or making beer.
• verb intransitive To be in a state of preparation; to be mixing, forming, or gathering.
• verb transitive, obsolete To boil or seethe; to cook.
• noun The mixture formed by brewing; that which is brewed; a brewage.
• noun slang A beer.
• noun UK, New Zealand A cup of tea.
• noun UK, New Zealand The act of making a cup of tea.
• noun UK, informal A hill.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

• verb sit or let sit in boiling water so as to extract the flavor
• noun drink made by steeping and boiling and fermenting rather than distilling
• verb prepare by brewing