wafer

• WordNet 3.6
  • n wafer thin disk of unleavened bread used in a religious service (especially in the celebration of the Eucharist)
  • n wafer a small thin crisp cake or cookie
  • n wafer a small adhesive disk of paste; used to seal letters
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• Interesting fact: In the 1700s, European women achieved a pale complexion by eating "Arsenic Complexion Wafers" actually made with the poison.
• • Wafer (Cookery) A thin cake made of flour and other ingredients. "Wafers piping hot out of the gleed.""The curious work in pastry, the fine cakes, wafers , and marchpanes.""A woman's oaths are wafers break with making"
  • Wafer (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.
  • Wafer An adhesive disk of dried paste, made of flour, gelatin, isinglass, or the like, and coloring matter, -- used in sealing letters and other documents.
  • Wafer 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.
  • v. t Wafer To seal or close with a wafer.
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• • n wafer In photography, chemicals employed in developing, compressed into a flat cake to be dissolved in water for use.
  • n wafer A thin cake or leaf of paste, generally disk-shaped. Specifically
  • n wafer A small and delicate cake or biscuit, usually sweetened, variously flavored, and sometimes rolled up.
  • n wafer A thin circular disk of unleavened bread used in the celebration of the eucharist in the Roman Catholic Church and in many Anglican churches. The wafer derives its form from the fact that the bread of the Jews was ordinarily in this shape; and both the ancient pictured representations and the references in the early patristic literature confirm the opinion that this was the form in use in the church from the apostolic days. Wafers are usually stamped with the form of a cross, crucifix, or Agnus Dei, with the initials I. H. S., or sometimes with a monogram representing the name of Christ. See altar-bread, and oblate, n., 2.
  • n wafer A thin disk of dried paste, used for sealing letters, fastening documents together, and similar purposes, usually made of flour mixed with water, gum, and some nonpoisonous coloring matter. Fancy transparent wafers are made of gelatin and isinglass in a variety of forms.
  • n wafer In artillery, a kind of primer. See primer.
  • n wafer In medicine, a thin circular sheet of dry paste used to facilitate the swallowing of powders. The sheet is moistened, and folded over the powder placed in its center. Sometimes wafers have the form of two watchglass-shaped disks of pasty material, which are made to adhere by moistening their edges, the powder being placed in the hollow between the two.
  • wafer To attach by means of a wafer or wafers.
  • wafer To seal or close by means of a wafer.
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• • n Wafer wā′fėr a thin round cake of unleavened bread, usually stamped with a cross, an Agnus Dei, the letters I.H.S., &c., used in the Eucharist in the R.C. Church: a thin leaf of coloured paste for sealing letters, &c.: a thin cake of paste used to facilitate the swallowing of powders
  • v.t Wafer to close with a wafer
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