Leaven

Noun

 * 1) Any agent used to make dough rise or to have a similar effect on baked goods.

Derived terms

 * leavenless
 * natural leaven

Verb

 * 1)  To add a leavening agent.
 * 2)  To cause to rise by fermentation.
 * 3)  To temper an action or decision.
 * With fresh material, taxonomic conclusions are leavened by recognition that the material examined reflects the site it occupied; a herbarium packet gives one only a small fraction of the data desirable for sound conclusions. Herbarium material does not, indeed, allow one to extrapolate safely: what you see is what you get
 * With fresh material, taxonomic conclusions are leavened by recognition that the material examined reflects the site it occupied; a herbarium packet gives one only a small fraction of the data desirable for sound conclusions. Herbarium material does not, indeed, allow one to extrapolate safely: what you see is what you get

Derived terms

 * leavened
 * leavening
 * unleavened

Thesaurus
abate, adjust to, agent, alter, alterant, alterative, alterer, assuage, bespread, besprinkle, box in, breathe, brew, catalyst, catalytic agent, circumscribe, color, condition, crawl with, creep with, decoct, diffuse, diminish, dredge, dye, entincture, extend throughout, ferment, fermentation, fill, flavor, hedge, hedge about, honeycomb, imbrue, imbue, impregnate, infiltrate, infuse, innovationist, innovator, instill, introducer, leave no void, leavening, limit, mitigate, moderate, modificator, modifier, modify, modulate, narrow, occupy, overrun, overspread, overswarm, palliate, penetrate, permeate, pervade, precursor, qualify, raise, reduce, regulate by, restrain, restrict, run through, saturate, season, set conditions, set limits, soften, steep, suffuse, swarm with, teem with, temper, tincture, tinge, transformer, transfuse, transmogrifier, yeast

Etymology
levain:, from, ultimately from levo:.

Noun

 * Armenian:
 * Catalan: llevat
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:, 麵肥, 面肥
 * Finnish:
 * French: ,
 * German: Treibmittel


 * Hebrew: שאור
 * Hungarian:
 * Italian: lievito
 * Norwegian: hevingsmiddel
 * Old Church Slavonic:
 * Polish: zaczyn, zakwas
 * Spanish: ,

Verb

 * Finnish:


 * Spanish:


 * Finnish: ,
 * French: faire lever, faire fermenter


 * Norwegian: heve
 * Spanish: