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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..

Unleavened :: Unleavened (a.) Not leavened; containing no leaven; as, unleavened bread..

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

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

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

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

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

Overleaven :: Overleaven (v. t.) To leaven too much; hence, to change excessively; to spoil..

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

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

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.

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

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

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..

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..

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

Leavenous :: Leavenous (a.) Containing leaven.

Azyme :: Azyme (n.) Unleavened bread.

Leaven :: Leaven (v. t.) To make light by the action of leaven; to cause to ferment.

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