barm
/bɑːm
/noun
1 [mass noun] The froth on fermenting malt liquor.Spring water, barm and malt of grain have created this classic whisky....
- There are still some who believe that bread made with barm had an especially good flavour.
- Poultices of wormwood boiled in grease, barm, or wine, may be applied with good success to white swellings.
1.1 archaic or dialect Yeast or leaven.Elizabeth David, in a fine account of the history of yeast in English baking, remarks that: In Chaucer's England one of the names for yeast or barm was goddisgoode....
- So the first barm-raised bread was developed.
- It looks like barm or yeast, but, being unfit for use, is only beggarly barm at best.
2 short for barm cake.
Origin
Old English beorma, of West Germanic origin.
Rhymes
- refection
- refectioner
- Refection Sunday
- refective
- refectoire
- refectorarian
- refectorer
- refectorial
- refectorian
- refectory
- refectory table
- refeed
- refeel
- refer
- referability
- referable
- referee
- referee's assistant
- refereeship
- reference
- reference bible
- reference book
- reference card
- reference catalog
- figure eight