Definition of barm in US English:

noun

• 1The froth on fermenting malt liquor.

  Example sentences

  • ‘Poultices of wormwood boiled in grease, barm, or wine, may be applied with good success to white swellings.’
  • ‘Spring water, barm and malt of grain have created this classic whisky.’
  • ‘Though the recipe included in the book by Weaver calls for a sourdough mixture, I felt that a beer barm might be a good replication of the leavening agent.’
  • ‘There are still some who believe that bread made with barm had an especially good flavour.’

  Synonyms

  globule, bead, blister, drop

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  1. 1.1dialect, archaic Yeast or leaven.
     Example sentences

     • ‘So the first barm-raised bread was developed.’
     • ‘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.’
     • ‘It looks like barm or yeast, but, being unfit for use, is only beggarly barm at best.’

     Synonyms

     leavening, ferment, fermentation agent, raising agent, yeast, baking powder

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