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(obsolete except in dialects) Bosom, lap.
* Late 14th century': And with that word this faucon gan to crie / And swowned eft in Canacees '''barm . — Geoffrey Chaucer, ‘The Squire's Tale’, ''Canterbury Tales
Foam rising upon beer, or other malt liquors, when fermenting, and used as leaven in making bread and in brewing; yeast.
* 1882 , James Edwin Thorold Rogers, A History of Agriculture and Prices in England , Volume 4, p. 620:
* 1913 , DH Lawrence, Sons and Lovers , Penguin 2006, p. 65:
A small, flat, round individual loaf or roll of bread.
Lacking a definition or value.
(mathematics, computing) That does not have a meaning and is thus not assigned an interpretation.
As a noun barm
is (obsolete except in dialects) bosom, lap or barm can be foam rising upon beer, or other malt liquors, when fermenting, and used as leaven in making bread and in brewing; yeast.As an adjective undefined is
lacking a definition or value.barm
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) bearm .Noun
(en noun)Etymology 2
From (etyl) beorma''; related to the dialectal (Low) German ''Bärm'' ("yeast"), from Middle Low German ''barm'', ''berm''. The cake sense is possibly a shortened form of barmcake, which would be made with yeast as described in that sense, or possibly it is from the (etyl) '' , a type of cake.Noun
- (Shakespeare)
- In 1577 yeast, called barm , is bought at 9d. the pail.
- And he chaffed the women as he served them their ha'porths of barm .
See also
* bap * bun * roll * muffin * barmy * barmpot ----undefined
English
Adjective
(wikipedia undefined) (-)- The result of division by zero is undefined .
