- Wafer Bread
- See Unleavened Bread.
American Church Dictionary and Cyclopedia. — New York, Thomas Whittaker. William James Miller, M.A., B.D.. 1901.
Wafer Bread
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wafer bread — noun 1. : eucharistic bread in the form of wafers 2. : corn bread baked in thin sheets especially by southwestern Indians … Useful english dictionary
wafer — [wā′fər] n. [ME wafre < NormFr waufre < MDu wafel, wafer, WAFFLE1] 1. a) a thin, flat, crisp cracker or cookie b) anything resembling this, as a thin, flat disk of candy 2. a piece of Eucharistic bread, specif., a thin, flat, white,… … English World dictionary
BREAD — (Heb. לֶחֶם, leḥem), a baked commodity from a cereal flour. The primary sense of leḥem is food in general (Gen. 37:25; Num. 28:2; I Kings 5:2; etc.). The Ugaritic lḥm has the same general sense and the same particular sense, while the Arabic… … Encyclopedia of Judaism
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… … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
Wafer cake — 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… … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
Wafer irons — 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… … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
Wafer tongs — 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… … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
Wafer woman — 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… … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
wafer — (n.) late 14c., from Anglo Fr. wafre, O.N.Fr. waufre honeycomb, wafer, perhaps from Frankish (Cf. Flem. wafer, altered from M.Du. wafel honeycomb; see WAFFLE (Cf. waffle) (n.)). Also found in Old French as gaufre, gofre wafer, waffle. Eucharistic … Etymology dictionary
wafer-thin — adjective extremely thin: wafer thin slices of bread … Usage of the words and phrases in modern English
