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Leavening :: Leavening (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Leave.

Leaven :: Leaven (n.) Anything which makes a general assimilating (especially a corrupting) change in the mass.

Tortilla :: Tortilla (n.) An unleavened cake, as of maize flour, baked on a heated iron or stone..

Leaven :: Leaven (v. t.) To imbue; to infect; to vitiate.

Azymous :: Azymous (a.) Unleavened; unfermented.

Matzoth :: Matzoth (n.) A cake of unleavened bread eaten by the Jews at the feast of the Passover.

Leavening :: Leavening (n.) That which leavens or makes light.

Sponge :: Sponge (n.) Dough before it is kneaded and formed into loaves, and after it is converted into a light, spongy mass by the agency of the yeast or leaven..

Spongelet :: Sponge (v. i.) To be converted, as dough, into a light, spongy mass by the agency of yeast, or leaven..

Cake :: Cake (n.) A sweetened composition of flour and other ingredients, leavened or unleavened, baked in a loaf or mass of any size or shape..

Raise :: Raise (v. t.) To cause to rise, as by the effect of leaven; to make light and spongy, as bread..

Therf :: Therf (a.) Not fermented; unleavened; -- said of bread, loaves, etc..

Unleavened :: Unleavened (a.) Not leavened; containing no leaven; as, unleavened bread..

Leavened :: Leavened (imp. & p. p.) of Leave.

Showbread :: Showbread (n.) Bread of exhibition; loaves to set before God; -- the term used in translating the various phrases used in the Hebrew and Greek to designate the loaves of bread which the priest of the week placed before the Lord on the golden table in the sanctuary. They were made of fine flour unleavened, and were changed every Sabbath. The loaves, twelve in number, represented the twelve tribes of Israel. They were to be eaten by the priests only, and in the Holy Place..

Wafer :: Wafer (n.) A thin cake or piece of bread (commonly unleavened, circular, and stamped with a crucifix or with the sacred monogram) used in the Eucharist, as in the Roman Catholic Church..

Cake :: Cake (n.) A small mass of dough baked; especially, a thin loaf from unleavened dough; as, an oatmeal cake; johnnycake..

Light :: Light (superl.) Well leavened; not heavy; as, light bread..

Overleaven :: Overleaven (v. t.) To leaven too much; hence, to change excessively; to spoil..

Azymite :: Azymite (n.) One who administered the Eucharist with unleavened bread; -- a name of reproach given by those of the Greek church to the Latins.

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