2. Noun. A type of yeast obtained from the remains of the brewing process. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Emptins
1. a liquid leavening [n]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Emptins
Literary usage of Emptins
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Complete Works of Artemus Ward: (Charles Farrar Browne) by Artemus Ward (1898)
"If 4 barrils of emptins * pored onto a barn floor will kiver it, ... pronounced
emptins, the lees of beer, cider, &c.; yeast or anything by which bread is ..."
2. The Pocumtuc Housewife, a Guide to Domestic Cookery as it is Practised in (1906)
"emptins. Nothing raises Bread so well as good lively beer ... When it is lukewarm
put in a cup of emptins. Bottle it when it gets well a working. ..."
3. A New Home by Caroline Matilda Kirkland (1850)
"It is my opinion that the sin of bewitching snow-white flour by means of either
of those abominations, ' salt risin,' ' milk emptins,' ' bran east,' or any ..."
4. Dialect Notes by American Dialect Society (1890)
"To run emptins is to show signs of not holding out well, as for instance a speech
or an enterprise of any kind. Probably from analogy of a beer-barrel. ..."
5. Dictionary of Americanisms. by John Russell Bartlett (1877)
"(Pron. emptins.) The lees of beer, cider, &c.; yeast, or any thing by which ...
'T will take more emptins, by a long chalk, than this new party 's got, ..."
6. The Complete Works of Artemus Ward: (Charles Farrar Browne) by Artemus Ward (1898)
"If 4 barrils of emptins * pored onto a barn floor will kiver it, ... pronounced
emptins, the lees of beer, cider, &c.; yeast or anything by which bread is ..."
7. The Pocumtuc Housewife, a Guide to Domestic Cookery as it is Practised in (1906)
"emptins. Nothing raises Bread so well as good lively beer ... When it is lukewarm
put in a cup of emptins. Bottle it when it gets well a working. ..."
8. A New Home by Caroline Matilda Kirkland (1850)
"It is my opinion that the sin of bewitching snow-white flour by means of either
of those abominations, ' salt risin,' ' milk emptins,' ' bran east,' or any ..."
9. Dialect Notes by American Dialect Society (1890)
"To run emptins is to show signs of not holding out well, as for instance a speech
or an enterprise of any kind. Probably from analogy of a beer-barrel. ..."
10. Dictionary of Americanisms. by John Russell Bartlett (1877)
"(Pron. emptins.) The lees of beer, cider, &c.; yeast, or any thing by which ...
'T will take more emptins, by a long chalk, than this new party 's got, ..."
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