'Wafer' definitions:
Definition of 'wafer'
From: WordNet
noun
A small adhesive disk of paste; used to seal letters
noun
A small thin crisp cake or cookie
noun
Thin disk of unleavened bread used in a religious service (especially in the celebration of the Eucharist)
Definition of 'Wafer'
From: GCIDE
- Wafer \Wa"fer\, n. [OE. wafre, OF. waufre, qaufre, F. qaufre; of Teutonic origin; cf. LG. & D. wafel, G. waffel, Dan. vaffel, Sw. v[*a]ffla; 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.] [1913 Webster]
- 1. (Cookery) A thin cake made of flour and other ingredients. [1913 Webster]
- Wafers piping hot out of the gleed. --Chaucer. [1913 Webster]
- The curious work in pastry, the fine cakes, wafers, and marchpanes. --Holland. [1913 Webster]
- A woman's oaths are wafers -- break with making --B. Jonson. [1913 Webster]
- 2. (Eccl.) 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. [1913 Webster]
- 3. An adhesive disk of dried paste, made of flour, gelatin, isinglass, or the like, and coloring matter, -- used in sealing letters and other documents. [1913 Webster]
- 4. 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. [PJC]
- 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. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Wafer'
From: GCIDE
Synonyms of 'wafer'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- altar bread,
- biscuit,
- bread,
- bread and wine,
- Brussels biscuit,
- coat,
- coating,
- collop,
- Communion,
- consecrated bread,
- consecrated elements,
- consubstantiation,
- covering,
- cracker,
- cut,
- deal,
- disk,
- elements,
- Eucharist,
- feuille,
- film,
- flap,
- foil,
- fold,
- graham cracker,
- gruel,
- hardtack,
- Holy Communion,
- Host,
- impanation,
- intinction,
- lamella,
- lamina,
- laminated glass,
- laminated wood,
- lap,
- Last Supper,
- lath,
- leaf,
- loaf,
- Melba toast,
- membrane,
- mere shadow,
- pane,
- panel,
- paper,
- patina,
- peel,
- pellicle,
- pilot biscuit,
- plait,
- plank,
- plate,
- plating,
- ply,
- plywood,
- pretzel,
- rail,
- rake,
- rasher,
- real presence,
- rusk,
- Sacrament Sunday,
- safety glass,
- saltine,
- scum,
- sea biscuit,
- shadow,
- shaving,
- sheet,
- ship biscuit,
- sinker,
- skeleton,
- skin,
- slab,
- slat,
- slice,
- slip,
- soda cracker,
- soup,
- splinter,
- streak,
- subpanation,
- table,
- tablet,
- the Holy Sacrament,
- the Sacrament,
- transubstantiation,
- vein,
- veneer,
- zwieback