WAFER
\wˈe͡ɪfə], \wˈeɪfə], \w_ˈeɪ_f_ə]\
Definitions of WAFER
- 2006 - WordNet 3.0
- 2011 - English Dictionary Database
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1914 - Nuttall's Standard dictionary of the English language
- 1874 - Etymological and pronouncing dictionary of the English language
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1920 - A practical medical dictionary.
- 1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
- 1898 - American pocket medical dictionary
- 1916 - Appleton's medical dictionary
- 1871 - The Cabinet Dictionary of the English Language
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thin disk of unleavened bread used in a religious service (especially in the celebration of the Eucharist)
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a small thin crisp cake or cookie
By Princeton University
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thin disk of unleavened bread used in a religious service (especially in the celebration of the Eucharist)
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a small thin crisp cake or cookie
By DataStellar Co., Ltd
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A thin cake made of flour and other ingredients.
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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.
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To seal or close with a wafer.
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An adhesive disk of dried paste, made of flour, gelatin, isinglass, or the like, and coloring matter, - used in sealing letters and other documents.
By Oddity Software
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A thin cake made of flour and other ingredients.
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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.
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To seal or close with a wafer.
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An adhesive disk of dried paste, made of flour, gelatin, isinglass, or the like, and coloring matter, - used in sealing letters and other documents.
By Noah Webster.
By Daniel Lyons
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To seal or close with a wafer.
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A thin small sweet cake; a thin circular piece of unleavened bread used in the administration of the eucharist in the Rom. Cath. Church, and frequently impressed with some symbol of the cross; thin discs of dried paste, sometimes coloured, used in sealing letters, &c.
By Nuttall, P.Austin.
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To seal or close with a wafer.
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A small, thin, round, dry piece of coloured paste, employed for securing letters, &c.; the small round piece of baked bread or paste used in the R. Cath. Ch. in the celebration of the Eucharist.
By Stormonth, James, Phelp, P. H.
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A thin cake or biscuit; a thin cake of unleavened bread used in the Communion service in certain churches; a disk of adhesive paper, paste, etc., for sealing documents, etc.
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
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A thin sheet of dried flour paste, used to enclose a powder, the wafer being moistened and folded over the drug, so that it can be swallowed without taste.
By Stedman, Thomas Lathrop
By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman
By James Champlin Fernald
By Willam Alexander Newman Dorland
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