malt

Grain, usually barley, that has been allowed to sprout, used chiefly in brewing and distilling.

An alcoholic beverage, such as beer or ale, brewed from malt.

To process (grain) into malt.

To treat or mix with malt or a malt extract.

To become malt.

Grain in which, by partial germination, arrested at the proper stage by heat, the starch is converted into saccharine matter (grape-sugar), the unfermented solution of the latter being the sweetwort of the brewer.

Liquor produced from malt, as ale, porter, or beer.

Pertaining to, containing, or made with malt.

An obsolete preterit of melt.