They melt thy yeast of waves, which mar
Alike the Armada's pride, or spoils of Trafalgar.
Byron.
Yeast cake, a mealy cake impregnated with the live germs of the yeast plant, and used as a conveniently transportable substitute for yeast. -- Yeast plant (Bot.), the vegetable organism, or fungus, of which beer yeast consists. The yeast plant is composed of simple cells, or granules, about one three-thousandth of an inch in diameter, often united into filaments which reproduce by budding, and under certain circumstances by the formation of spores. The name is extended to other ferments of the same genus. See Saccharomyces. - - Yeast powder, a baling powder, -- used instead of yeast in leavening bread.
Yeast"-bit`ten (?), a. (Brewing) A term used of beer when the froth of the yeast has reëntered the body of the beer.
Yeast"i*ness (?), n. The quality or state of being yeasty, or frothy.
Yeast"y (?), a. Frothy; foamy; spumy, like yeast.
Yed"ding (?), n. [AS. geddung, gidding, giedding, from gieddian, giddian, to sing, speak.] The song of a minstrel; hence, any song. [Obs.] Chaucer.
Yede (?), obs. imp. Went. See Yode.
All as he bade fulfilled was indeed
This ilke servant anon right out yede.
Chaucer.
Spenser and some later writers mistook this for a present of the defective imperfect yode. It is, however, only a variant of yode. See Yode, and cf. Yead.
[He] on foot was forced for to yeed.