yeast, barm
(noun) a commercial leavening agent containing yeast cells; used to raise the dough in making bread and for fermenting beer or whiskey
Source: WordNet® 3.1
barm (plural barms)
(obsolete, except in, dialects) Bosom, lap.
barm (countable and uncountable, plural barms)
Foam rising upon beer, or other malt liquors, when fermenting, and used as leaven in making bread and in brewing; yeast.
A small, flat, round individual loaf or roll of bread.
barm (third-person singular simple present barms, present participle barming, simple past and past participle barmed)
To spurge; foam
• AMBR, Bram
Source: Wiktionary
Barm, n. Etym: [OE. berme, AS. beorma; akin to Sw. bärma, G. bärme, and prob. L. fermenium. *93.]
Definition: Foam rising upon beer, or other malt liquors, when fermenting, and used as leaven in making bread and in brewing; yeast. Shak.
Barm, n. Etym: [OE. bearm, berm, barm, AS. beorma; akin to E. bear to support.]
Definition: The lap or bosom. [Obs.] Chaucer.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
23 December 2024
(noun) Australian tree having hard white timber and glossy green leaves with white flowers followed by one-seeded glossy blue fruit
The earliest credible evidence of coffee-drinking as the modern beverage appeared in modern-day Yemen. In the middle of the 15th century in Sufi shrines where coffee seeds were first roasted and brewed for drinking. The Yemenis procured the coffee beans from the Ethiopian Highlands.
