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3 in 3 verses (in OT : 3 in 3 verses)


wafern. [OE. wafre, OF. waufre, qaufre, F. qaufre; of Teutonic origin; cf. LG. & D. wafel, G. waffel, Dan. vaffel, Sw. våffla; all akin to G. wabe a honeycomb, OHG. waba, being named from the resemblance to a honeycomb. G. wabe is probably akin to E. weave. See Weave, and cf. Waffle, Gauffer.].
  •  A thin cake made of flour and other ingredients.  [1913 Webster]
    "Wafers piping hot out of the gleed."  [1913 Webster]
    "The curious work in pastry, the fine cakes, wafers, and marchpanes."  [1913 Webster]
    "A woman's oaths are wafers -- break with making"  [1913 Webster]
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.
waferv. t. 
     To seal or close with a wafer.  [1913 Webster]


wafer, n. & v.
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. fasten or seal with a wafer.

wafer-thin very thin.
wafery adj.
ME f. AF wafre, ONF waufre, OF gaufre (cf. GOFFER) f. MLG wafel waffle: cf. WAFFLE(2)



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