yeast

noun

1. (countable, uncountable)An often humid, yellowish froth produced by fermenting malt worts, and used to brew beer, leaven bread, and also used in certain medicines.
2. (countable, uncountable)A single-celled fungus of a wide variety of taxonomic families.

   “A microscopical examination of the yeast taken from these rapid vigorous fermentations will only be able to give useful conclusions in one respect.”

3. (countable, uncountable)A single-celled fungus of a wide variety of taxonomic families.
4. (countable, uncountable)A single-celled fungus of a wide variety of taxonomic families.
5. (countable, uncountable)A single-celled fungus of a wide variety of taxonomic families.
6. (countable, uncountable)A single-celled fungus of a wide variety of taxonomic families.
7. (countable, uncountable)A single-celled fungus of a wide variety of taxonomic families.
8. (countable, figuratively, uncountable)A frothy foam.

   “But what most puzzled and confounded you was a long, limber, portentous, black mass of something hovering in the centre of the picture over three blue, dim, perpendicular lines floating in a nameless yeast.”

verb

1. To ferment.
2. To rise.
3. (slang)To exaggerate.

name

1. A surname.