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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

WAFER, n.
1. A thin cake or leaf; as a wafer of bread given by the Romanists in the Eucharist.
2. A thin leaf of paste, or a composition of flour, the white of eggs, isinglass and yeast, spread over with gumwater and dried; used in sealing letters.
WAFER, v.t. To seal or close with a wafer.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

n
1: a small adhesive disk of paste; used to seal letters
2: a small thin crisp cake or cookie
3: thin disk of unleavened bread used in a religious service (especially in the celebration of the Eucharist)

Merriam Webster's

I. noun Etymology: Middle English, from Anglo-French wafer, walfre, of Germanic origin; akin to Middle Dutch wafele waffle Date: 14th century 1. a. a thin crisp cake, candy, or cracker b. a round thin piece of unleavened bread used in the celebration of the Eucharist 2. an adhesive disk of dried paste with added coloring matter used as a seal 3. a. a thin disk or ring resembling a wafer and variously used (as for a valve or diaphragm) b. a thin slice of semiconductor (as silicon) used as a base for an electronic component or circuit II. transitive verb (wafered; wafering) Date: 1748 1. to seal, close, or fasten with a wafer 2. to divide (as a silicon rod) into wafers

Oxford Reference Dictionary

n. & v. --n. 1 a very thin light crisp sweet biscuit, esp. of a kind eaten with ice-cream. 2 a thin disc of unleavened bread used in the Eucharist. 3 a disc of red paper stuck on a legal document instead of a seal. 4 Electronics a very thin slice of a semiconductor crystal used as the substrate for solid-state circuitry. 5 hist. a small disc of dried paste formerly used for fastening letters, holding papers together, etc. --v.tr. fasten or seal with a wafer. Phrases and idioms: wafer-thin very thin. Derivatives: wafery adj. Etymology: ME f. AF wafre, ONF waufre, OF gaufre (cf. GOFFER) f. MLG wafel waffle: cf. WAFFLE(2)

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Wafer Wa"fer, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Wafered; p. pr. & vb. n. Wafering.] To seal or close with a wafer.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Wafer Wa"fer, n. [OE. wafre, OF. waufre, qaufre, F. qaufre; of Teutonic origin; cf. LG. & D. wafel, G. waffel, Dan. vaffel, Sw. v[*a]ffla; all akin to G. wabe a honeycomb, OHG. waba, being named from the resemblance to a honeycomb. G. wabe is probably akin to E. weave. See Weave, and cf. Waffle, Gauffer.] 1. (Cookery) A thin cake made of flour and other ingredients. Wafers piping hot out of the gleed. --Chaucer. The curious work in pastry, the fine cakes, wafers, and marchpanes. --Holland. A woman's oaths are wafers -- break with making --B. Jonson. 2. (Eccl.) A thin cake or piece of bread (commonly unleavened, circular, and stamped with a crucifix or with the sacred monogram) used in the Eucharist, as in the Roman Catholic Church. 3. An adhesive disk of dried paste, made of flour, gelatin, isinglass, or the like, and coloring matter, -- used in sealing letters and other documents.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

(wafers) 1. A wafer is a thin crisp biscuit which is usually eaten with ice cream. N-COUNT 2. A wafer is a circular, thin piece of special bread which the priest gives people to eat in the Christian service of Holy Communion. N-COUNT

International Standard Bible Encyclopedia

wa'-fer.

See BREAD.

Moby Thesaurus

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