n a weekday on which no festival or holiday is celebrated
in the middle ages feria was used with a prefixed ordinal number to designate the day of the week, so `secunda feria' meant Monday, but Sunday and Saturday were always called by their names, Dominicus and Sabbatum, and so feria came to mean an ordinary weekday
n (in Spanish speaking regions) a local festival or fair, usually in honor of some patron saint
n a state of agitation or turbulent change or development
the political ferment produced new leadership
n a substance capable of bringing about fermentation
n a process in which an agent causes an organic substance to break down into simpler substances; especially, the anaerobic breakdown of sugar into alcohol
v be in an agitated or excited state
The Middle East is fermenting Her mind ferments
v work up into agitation or excitement
Islam is fermenting Africa
v cause to undergo fermentation
We ferment the grapes for a very long time to achieve high alcohol content
n a state of agitation or turbulent change or development
n a process in which an agent causes an organic substance to break down into simpler substances; especially, the anaerobic breakdown of sugar into alcohol
n the intoxicating agent in fermented and distilled liquors; used pure or denatured as a solvent or in medicines and colognes and cleaning solutions and rocket fuel; proposed as a renewable clean-burning additive to gasoline