01 n. A thin cake made of flour and other ingredients.
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A thin cake made of flour and other ingredients.(Cookery)“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.
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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.(Eccl.)
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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.
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Any thin but rigid plate of solid material, esp. of discoidal shape; -- a term used commonly to refer to the thin slices of silicon used as starting material for the manufacture of integrated circuits.
Phrases & compounds
Wafer cake —
a sweet, thin cake.
Wafer irons —
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.