Results for barm

Definitions of barm:

part of speech: noun

Yeast; leaven for bread; the scum or slimy substance from beer.

part of speech: noun

Froth of beer or other fermenting liquor used as leaven: yeast.

Usage examples for barm:

• Likeways Grammer Pawle gave us Cap'n Meggs's old Zunday shirt that she'd saved for tinder- box linnit; and Keeper Tricksey of Mellstock emptied his powder- horn into a barm bladder, to make his heart wi'. "The Dynasts An Epic-Drama Of The War With Napoleon, In Three Parts, Nineteen Acts, And One Hundred And Thirty Scenes", Thomas Hardy

• After this, put some of it into a vessel, and take the whites of two eggs, and a little barm and a small quantity of fine flower; beat them well together, and put it into the vessel close covered, that it may work. "The Closet of Sir Kenelm Digby Knight Opened", Kenelm Digby

• Again, in Low German and in Anglo- Saxon, there is another name for yeast, having the form " barm or " beorm;" and, in the Midland Counties, " barm is the name by which yeast is still best known. "Critiques and Addresses", Thomas Henry Huxley

• Then if you please, you may boil up your grounds that are in the bottome of the vessel with three or four quarts of water; and when it is cold, strain it, to the rest, and put to it a little good light barm "The Closet of Sir Kenelm Digby Knight Opened", Kenelm Digby