in Gardening, a method of producing ripe fruits from trees before their natural season. See Gardening Index.

the wine trade, a term used by the wine coopers, for the fining down wines, and rendering them fit for immediate draught. The principal inconvenience of the common way of fining down the white wines with isinglass, and the red with whites of eggs, is the slowness of the operation; these ingredients not performing their office in less than a week, or sometimes a fortnight, according as the weather proves favourable, cloudy or clear, windy or calm: this appears to be matter of constant observation. But the wine merchant frequently requires a method that shall, with certainty, make the wines fit for tasting in a few hours. A method of this kind there is, but it is kept in a few hands a valuable secret. Perhaps it depends upon a prudent use of a tartarised spirit of wine, and the common forcing, as occasion is, along with gypsum, as the principal; all which are to be well stirred about in the wine, for half an hour before it is suffered to rest.