Thesaurus: wafer

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1. n. A thin cake made of flour and other ingredients.
2. n. 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. n. An adhesive disk of dried paste, made of flour, gelatin, isinglass, or the like, and coloring matter, -- used in sealing letters and other documents.
4. v. t. To seal or close with a wafer.
5. n. a small adhesive disk of paste; used to seal letters
6. n. a small thin crisp cake or cookie
7. n. thin disk of unleavened bread used in a religious service (especially in the celebration of the Eucharist)
8. 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. Wafer cake, a sweet, thin cake. Shak. -- Wafer irons, or Wafer tongs (Cookery), a pincher-shaped contrivance, having flat plates, or blades, between which wafers are baked. -- Wafer woman, a woman who sold wafer cakes; also, one employed in amorous intrigues. Beau. & Fl. To seal or close with a wafer.
9. 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.
10. n:100 n. a small adhesive disk of paste; used to seal letters n. a small thin crisp cake or cookie n. thin disk of unleavened bread used in a religious service (especially in the celebration of the Eucharist)