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wafer(dictionary)
wafer(medicine)
wafer-thin(dictionary)
drake(medicine)
Drake(dictionary)
drake(1)(dictionary)
drake(2)(dictionary)
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drake(dictionary)

drake(2) (iou) and wafer (iou)


drake(2) (iou)



drake noun2 & adjective. ME.
[Corresp. to Low German drake, drache from West Germanic base repr. also by 2nd elem. of Old High German antrahho, antrehho (German Enterich).]
A. noun. A male duck. ME.
drake's tail an unruly tuft or curl of hair at the back of the head. ducks and drakes, duck and drake: see DUCK noun1.
b. attrib. or as adjective. Designating a duck that is male. L19.

wafer (iou)



wafer noun & verb. LME.
[Anglo-Norman wafre (whence Anglo-Latin wafra) var. of Old Northern French waufre, Old & mod. French gaufre (see GOFFER) from Middle Low German wafel WAFFLE noun1.]
A. noun.
A very thin light crisp usu. sweet biscuit, formerly often eaten with Wine, now esp. of a kind eaten with ice-cream. LME.
b. A small bar of ice-cream sandwiched between wafers. M20.
Christian Church. A thin disc of unleavened bread used in the Eucharist in some Churches. LME.
A small disc of dried paste, which when moistened was formerly used for sealing letters, attaching papers, etc. (now Hist.). Also (Law), a disc of red paper stuck on a document instead of a seal. E18.
Medicine. A thin leaf of paste, used to form a cachet for the administration of a powder. Now rare. M19.
Any round thin spot, mark, or object. M19.
J. Baldwin The shirt was covered with round, paper-thin wafers, red and green. J. McPhee It was exquisite stone..in blocks and wafers.
Electronics. A very thin slice of a semiconductor crystal used as the substrate for solid-state circuitry. M20.
A very small gold ingot, weighing no more than a few ounces. L20.
Comb.: wafer-cake (a) (chiefly derog.) a communion wafer; (b) (rare, Shakes.) something fragile and easily broken; wafer-iron an implement for Baking wafers, consisting of two iron plates between which the paste is held; wafer-paper paper for Baking wafers on; paper used to administer medicaments; wafer-scale adjective (Electronics) on the scale of a wafer (sense 6); wafer-thin adjective very thin.
b. verb trans. Fasten or seal with a wafer. Also foll. by up. M18.
G. A. Sala [He] had wafered the page of the book..against the..desk.
waferer noun (obsolete exc. Hist.) a maker or seller of wafers (known for being prepared to act as a go-between in love affairs); a confectioner in a royal or noble household: LME.
waferlike adjective resembling a wafer; very thin: L19.