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Traditional English :: wafer
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wafer.html - 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. wafery adj. [ME f. AF wafre, ONF waufre, OF gaufre (cf. GOFFER) f. MLG wafel waffle: cf. WAFFLE(2)] |
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Traditional English :: wafer
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wafer.html - 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. wafery adj. [ME f. AF wafre, ONF waufre, OF gaufre (cf. GOFFER) f. MLG wafel waffle: cf. WAFFLE(2)] |
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Traditional English :: WAF
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wafer.html - abbr.
(in the US) Women in the Air Force. |
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Traditional English :: wafer
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wafer.html - 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. wafery adj. [ME f. AF wafre, ONF waufre, OF gaufre (cf. GOFFER) f. MLG wafel waffle: cf. WAFFLE(2)] |
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Traditional English :: waffle(1)
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wafer.html - n. & v. esp. Brit. colloq. --n. verbose but aimless or ignorant talk or writing. --v.waffler n. waffly adj. [orig. dial., frequent. of waff = yelp, yap (imit.)] |
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Traditional English :: waffle(2)
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wafer.html - n. esp. US a small crisp batter cake. waffle-iron a utensil, usu. of two shallow metal pans hinged together, for baking waffles. [Du. wafel, waefel f. MLG wafel: cf. WAFER] |
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