Wafer
['weɪfə] or ['wefɚ]
Definition
(noun.) thin disk of unleavened bread used in a religious service (especially in the celebration of the Eucharist).
(noun.) a small thin crisp cake or cookie.
(noun.) a small adhesive disk of paste; used to seal letters.
Edited by Georgina--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) A thin cake made of flour and other ingredients.
(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.
(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.
(v. t.) To seal or close with a wafer.
Checked by Hugo
Definition
n. a thin round cake of unleavened bread usually stamped with a cross an Agnus Dei the letters I.H.S. &c. used in the Eucharist in the R.C. Church: a thin leaf of coloured paste for sealing letters &c.: a thin cake of paste used to facilitate the swallowing of powders.—v.t. to close with a wafer.—n. Wā′fer-cake.—adj. Wā′fery like a wafer.
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Unserious Contents or Definition
Wafer, if seen in a dream, purports an encounter with enemies. To eat one, suggests impoverished fortune. For a young woman to bake them, denotes that she will be tormented and distressed by fears of remaining in the unmarried state.
Typist: Randall
Examples
- I hastily broke open the plain wafer seal, and found a two hundred pound bank-note, merely enclosed in a blank cover. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
- As the wafer digested, the tincture mounted to his brain, bearing the proposition along with it. Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World.
- The proposition, and demonstration, were fairly written on a thin wafer, with ink composed of a cephalic tincture. Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World.
- Sandwiched between the earth and the turquoise sky, the Atlantic lay gleaming like a huge silver wafer in the sunlight. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- But near the instep there is a small circular wafer of paper with the shopman's hieroglyphics upon it. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
- Who has not had their letters, with the wafers wet, and the announcement that a person is waiting in the hall? William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- Here is an inkstand, here are pens and paper, here are wafers. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- You and Fosco are to sign afterwards, Miss Halcombe, opposite those two wafers. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
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