| yeast | |
| 1. n. An often humid, yellowish froth produced by fermenting malt worts, and used to brew beer, leaven bread, and also used in certain medicines. | |
| 2. n. A single-celled fungus of a wide variety of taxonomic families. | |
| 3. n. A true yeast or budding yeast in order Saccharomycetales. | |
| 4. n. # baker's yeast, Saccharomyces cerevisiae | |
| 5. n. ## A compressed cake or dried granules of this substance used for mixing with flour to make bread dough rise. | |
| 6. n. # brewer's yeast, certain species of Saccharomyces, principally Saccharomyces cerevisiae and. | |
| 7. n. Candida, a ubiquitous fungus that can cause various kinds of infections in humans. | |
| 8. n. # The resulting infection, candidiasis. | |
| 9. n. (figuratively) A frothy foam. | |
| 10. v. To ferment. | |
| 11. v. (of something prepared with a yeasted dough) To rise. | |
| 12. v. (African American Vernacular English, slang) To exaggeratehttp://www.probertencyclopaedia.com/cgi-bin/res.pl?keyword=Yeasting&offset=0 | |
