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Leaven 1

Definition: 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.

Leaven 2

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

Leaven 3

Definition: To make light by the action of leaven; to cause to ferment.

Leaven 4

Definition: To imbue; to infect; to vitiate.

leaven 5

Definition: an influence that works subtly to lighten or modify something; "his sermons benefited from a leavening of humor"

leaven 6

Definition: a substance used to produce fermentation in dough or a liquid

leaven 7

Definition: cause to puff up with a leaven; "unleavened bread"

 

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