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It is not only important, but, in a degree necessary, that the people of this country, should have an American Dictionary of the English language; for, although the body of the language is the same as in England, and it is desirable to perpetuate that sameness, yet some differences must exist. Language is the expression of ideas; and if the people of one country cannot preserve an identity of ideas, they cannot retain an identity of language. |
WAFER, n.
WAFER, v.t. To seal or close with a wafer.
A thin cake made of flour and
other ingredients.
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. 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.
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 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. To seal or close with a wafer.
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