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Princeton's WordNet

  1. yeast, barmnoun

    a commercial leavening agent containing yeast cells; used to raise the dough in making bread and for fermenting beer or whiskey

Samuel Johnson's Dictionary

  1. BARMnoun

    Yeast; the ferment put into drink to make it work, and into bread, to lighten and swell it.

    Etymology: burm, Welch; beorm, Sax.

    Are you not he
    That sometimes make the drink to bear no barm,
    Mislead light wand’rers, laughing at their harm? William Shakespeare.

    You may try the force of imagination, upon staying the working of beer when the barm is put into it. Francis Bacon, Nat. History, №. 992.

Wikipedia

  1. Barm

    Barm, also called ale yeast, is the foam or scum formed on the top of a fermenting liquid, such as beer, wine, or feedstock for spirits or industrial ethanol distillation. It is used to leaven bread, or set up fermentation in a new batch of liquor. Barm, as a leaven, has also been made from ground millet combined with must out of wine-tubs and is sometimes used in English baking as a synonym for a natural leaven (sourdough). Various cultures derived from barm, usually Saccharomyces cerevisiae, became ancestral to most forms of brewer's yeast and baker's yeast currently on the market. A barm cake is a soft, round, flattish bread roll from North West England, traditionally leavened with barm. In Ireland, barm is used in the traditional production of barmbrack, a fruited bread. Emptins, a homemade product similar to barm and usually made from hops or potatoes and the dregs of cider or ale casks, was a common leavener for those living in rural areas far from a brewery, distillery, or bakery from which they could source barm or yeast.

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  1. barm

    Barm is the froth that forms on the top of fermented beverages, such as beer or wine, which contains yeast cells. It is often used as a leavening agent in baking, especially in the production of sourdough breads.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Barmnoun

    foam rising upon beer, or other malt liquors, when fermenting, and used as leaven in making bread and in brewing; yeast

  2. Barmnoun

    the lap or bosom

Chambers 20th Century Dictionary

  1. Barm

    bärm, n. froth of beer or other fermenting liquor, used as leaven: yeast.—adjs. Barm′y; Barm′y-brained, flighty. [A.S. beorma; cog. with Dan. bärme, Ger. bärme.]

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  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of BARM in Chaldean Numerology is: 9

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of BARM in Pythagorean Numerology is: 7

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