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Leavening :: Leavening (n.) That which leavens or makes light.

Leavenous :: Leavenous (a.) Containing leaven.

Azymite :: Azymite (n.) One who administered the Eucharist with unleavened bread; -- a name of reproach given by those of the Greek church to the Latins.

Azyme :: Azyme (n.) Unleavened bread.

Leaven :: Leaven (n.) Any substance that produces, or is designed to produce, fermentation, as in dough or liquids; esp., a portion of fermenting dough, which, mixed with a larger quantity of dough, produces a general change in the mass, and renders it light; yeast; barm..

Spongelet :: Sponge (v. i.) To be converted, as dough, into a light, spongy mass by the agency of yeast, or leaven..

Azymous :: Azymous (a.) Unleavened; unfermented.

Leaven :: Leaven (n.) Anything which makes a general assimilating (especially a corrupting) change in the mass.

Cake :: Cake (n.) A small mass of dough baked; especially, a thin loaf from unleavened dough; as, an oatmeal cake; johnnycake..

Light :: Light (superl.) Well leavened; not heavy; as, light bread..

Tortilla :: Tortilla (n.) An unleavened cake, as of maize flour, baked on a heated iron or stone..

Matzoth :: Matzoth (n.) A cake of unleavened bread eaten by the Jews at the feast of the Passover.

Wafer :: Wafer (n.) A thin cake or piece of bread (commonly unleavened, circular, and stamped with a crucifix or with the sacred monogram) used in the Eucharist, as in the Roman Catholic Church..

Leaven :: Leaven (v. t.) To imbue; to infect; to vitiate.

Sponge :: Sponge (n.) Dough before it is kneaded and formed into loaves, and after it is converted into a light, spongy mass by the agency of the yeast or leaven..

Leavening :: Leavening (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Leave.

Therf :: Therf (a.) Not fermented; unleavened; -- said of bread, loaves, etc..

Barm :: Barm (n.) Foam rising upon beer, or other malt liquors, when fermenting, and used as leaven in making bread and in brewing; yeast..

Raised :: Raised (a.) Leavened; made with leaven, or yeast; -- used of bread, cake, etc., as distinguished from that made with cream of tartar, soda, etc. See Raise, v. t., 4..

Leavened :: Leavened (imp. & p. p.) of Leave.

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