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Showbread :: Showbread (n.) Bread of exhibition; loaves to set before God; -- the term used in translating the various phrases used in the Hebrew and Greek to designate the loaves of bread which the priest of the week placed before the Lord on the golden table in the sanctuary. They were made of fine flour unleavened, and were changed every Sabbath. The loaves, twelve in number, represented the twelve tribes of Israel. They were to be eaten by the priests only, and in the Holy Place..

Azyme :: Azyme (n.) Unleavened bread.

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

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

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..

Leavenous :: Leavenous (a.) Containing leaven.

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..

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..

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..

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.

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

Raise :: Raise (v. t.) To cause to rise, as by the effect of leaven; to make light and spongy, as bread..

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

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

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

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

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

Leavening :: Leavening (n.) The act of making light, or causing to ferment, by means of leaven..

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