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Used to raise the dough in making bread and for fermenting beer or whiskey
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barm
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Word definitions for barm in dictionaries
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Barm \Barm\ (b[aum]rm), n. [OE. berme, AS. beorma; akin to Sw. b["a]rma, G. b["a]rme, and prob. L. fermentum. [root]93.] Foam rising upon beer, or other malt liquors, when fermenting, and used as leaven in making bread and in brewing; yeast. --Shak.
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
Etymology 1 n. (qualifier: obsolete except in dialects) bosom, lap. Etymology 2 n. 1 Foam rising upon beer, or other malt liquors, when fermenting, and used as leaven in making bread and in brewing; yeast. 2 A small, flat, round individual loaf or roll ...
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. a commercial leavening agent containing yeast cells; used to raise the dough in making bread and for fermenting beer or whiskey [syn: yeast ]
Usage examples of barm.
Many other ships have been through that region without coming to barm, and they report that it's completely uncivilized.
It was evident by now that no barm was intended by their captors, -,vho were apparently content to leave them to their own devices.
Many other ships have been through that region without coming to barm, and they report that it's completely uncivilized.
It was evident by now that no barm was intended by their captors, -,vho were apparently content to leave them to their own devices.
But at the last to speake she began, And meekly she unto the sergeant pray'd, So as he was a worthy gentle man, That she might kiss her child, ere that it died: And in her barme* this little child she laid, *lap, bosom With full sad face, and gan the child to bless,* *cross And lulled it, and after gan it kiss.
And falsely to his foemen she him sold, And sleeping in her barme* upon a day *lap She made to clip or shear his hair away, And made his foemen all his craft espien.
Clay made with horse and manne's hair, and oil Of tartar, alum, glass, barm, wort, argoil,* *potter's clay Rosalgar,* and other matters imbibing.
And slepynge in hir barme upon a day She made to clippe or shere hise heres away, And made hise foomen al this craft espyn.
Thus day by day this child bigan to crye, Til in his fadres barm adoun it lay, And seyde, "Farewel, fader, I moot dye!
But atte laste speken she bigan, And mekely she to the sergeant preyde, So as he was a worthy gentil man, That she moste kisse hire child, er that it deyde, And in hir barm this litel child she leyde, With ful sad face, and gan the child to kisse, And lulled it, and after gan it blisse.
And with that word this faucoun gan to crie, And swowned eft in Canacees barm.
His grandfather was a French refugee who had married an English barmaid--if it had been a marriage.
Suddenly one morning as she was looking down the alley of the Bottoms for the barm-man, she heard a voice calling her.
He talked to barmaids, to almost any woman, but there was that dark, strained look in his eyes, as if he were hunting something.
He saw the face of the barmaid, the gobbling drinkers, his own glass on the slopped, mahogany board, in the distance.