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gallizes

gallizes is the third-person singular simple present indicative of gallize.

Meaning of gallize

Verb

gallize (third-person singular simple present gallizes, present participle gallizing, simple past and past participle gallized)

  1. (British, English, Oxford, US, dated, transitive) To add sugar and water to (unfermented grape juice) so as to increase the quantity of wine produced.
    • [page 163] Therefore it is, that to us the knowledge of how to properly gallize our wines is still more important than to the European vintner, and the results which we can realize are yet more important. [...] [page 172] Truth and justice need never fear the light—they can only gain additional...1866, George Husmann, “Wine-making”, in The Cultivation of the Native Grape, and Manufacture of American Wines, New York, N.Y.: Geo[rge] E. Woodward, […], →OCLC, pages 163 and 172

Questions about gallizes

What is gallizes the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
Gallizes is the third-person singular simple present indicative of gallize.

Words near gallizes in the dictionary

  1. galliwasp
  2. galliwasps
  3. gallization
  4. gallize
  5. gallized
  6. gallizes
  7. gallizing
  8. gallless
  9. Gallman
  10. Gallmans
  11. Gallmeister

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