LEAVEN
\lˈɛvən], \lˈɛvən], \l_ˈɛ_v_ə_n]\
Definitions of LEAVEN
- 2006 - WordNet 3.0
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
- 1871 - The Cabinet Dictionary of the English Language
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Any substance that produces, or is designed to produce, fermentation, as in dough or liquids; esp., a portion of fermenting dough, which, mixed with a larger quantity of dough, produces a general change in the mass, and renders it light; yeast; barm.
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Anything which makes a general assimilating (especially a corrupting) change in the mass.
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To imbue; to infect; to vitiate.
By Oddity Software
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Any substance that produces, or is designed to produce, fermentation, as in dough or liquids; esp., a portion of fermenting dough, which, mixed with a larger quantity of dough, produces a general change in the mass, and renders it light; yeast; barm.
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Anything which makes a general assimilating (especially a corrupting) change in the mass.
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To imbue; to infect; to vitiate.
By Noah Webster.
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To produce fermentation in; to make light, as dough; to mix; as, to leaven correction with a little praise.
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A ferment mixed with a substance to render it light, as yeast with dough; any strong, silent influence.
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
By Daniel Lyons
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Fermenting dough.
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To mix with leaven.
By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman
By James Champlin Fernald
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