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Cause to expand, as bread
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leaven
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Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 Any agent used to make dough rise or to have a similar effect on baked goods. 2 (context figurative English) Anything that makes a general assimilating change in the mass. vb. 1 (context transitive English) To add a leavening agent. 2 (context transitive ...
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
I. noun EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ A piece of dough was kept back after using the yeast and this is called leaven . ▪ None rejoice more in this leaven than the professional scholars themselves. ▪ This leaven was added the next time baking bread was done. II. ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
mid-14c., from Old French levain "leaven, sourdough" (12c.), from Latin levamen "alleviation, mitigation," but used in Vulgar Latin in its literal sense of "a means of lifting, something that raises," from levare "to raise" (see lever ). Figurative use ...
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. a substance used to produce fermentation in dough or a liquid [syn: leavening ] an influence that works subtly to lighten or modify something; "his sermons benefited from a leavening of humor" [syn: leavening ]
Usage examples of leaven.
Further, leavened or unleavened are mere accidents of bread, which do not vary the species.
That is Bahaism, which, as it is now taking form, is a leaven rather than a cult.
Have we nothing to fear from the leaven of political fragmentarism in Europe?
Swede, a third-generation Ukrainian, and a third-generation Hutzul, with some Irish, English, Scots, Cherokee, and German thrown in for leavening.
With Alex gone, everything had the feel of bread dough with the leavening left out.
But an analogy is not an explanation, and why a few drops of yeast should change a saccharine mixture to carbonic acid and alcohol,--a little leaven leavening the whole lump,--not by combining with it, but by setting a movement at work, we not only cannot explain, but the fact is such an exception to the recognized laws of combination that Liebig is unwilling to admit the new force at all to which Berzelius had given the name so generally accepted.
Populist party is to prove itself capable of amalgamating a great national political organization or whether its work is to be done through a leavening of the old parties to a more or less extent with its doctrines and ideas, remains to be seen.
She would warrant he was having no trouble with leavening under his tight braies now.
Mrs Leavening writes that they mean to put up at the York House while they look about them for lodgings, and depend upon us to advise them, for they were never in Bath before, you know!
Mr and Mrs Leavening were expected to arrive that day at York House they had not yet done so, and were scarcely looked for until dinner-time.
She said nothing about it, merely assuring Selina that she had left a note at York House, to be delivered to Mrs Leavening upon her arrival.
Mrs Leavening how she had prospered that morning in her search for lodgings, he had no difficulty in obeying this behest.
The only difficulty he experienced was how to extricate himself from a discussion of all the merits, and demerits, of the several sets of apartments Mrs Leavening had inspected.
But having agreed with Selina that Axford Buildings were situated in a horrid part of the town, and with Mrs Leavening that Gay Street was too steep for elderly persons, he laughed, and disclosed with disarming candour that he knew nothing of either locality.
The next piece of Bath news came from Mrs Leavening, and interested her too much.