waferstert

[ME. wafrestre, waufrestre; "Wyte god," quath a wafrestre, "wist ich the so the, Ich wolde no forther a fot for no freres prechinge." Piers Plowman (C), viii. 285. IMG:content-1985.png:[blocks in formation] A woman Make the wafer - tongs hot over the hole of a stove or clear fire. Workshop Receipts , 2d ser., p. 156. wafer-womanł (wā'fėr-wum"an), n. who sold wafers. Compare waferer . 'Twas no set meeting certainly, for there was no wafer woman with her these three days, on my knowledge. Beau, and Fl., Woman-Hater, ii. 1. waferyl (wa'fèr-i), a . [ wafer + -y1.] Like a wafer: as, a wafery thinne . wafery2t (wa'fèr-i), n. [Early mod. E. wafrie ; wafer + -y3 (see -ery ).] Wafers collectively; pastry; cakes. The tartes, wafrie , and iounkettes, that wer to be serued and to com in after the meat. J. Udall , tr. of Apophthegms of Erasmus, p. 192. ( Davies .) waff1 (waf), v . [A var. of wavel , affected by waft, v.] An obsolete form of wavel .