wadi, wady (wodi)

[ The real wady is, generally speaking, a rocky valley, bisected by the bed of a mountain torrent, dry during the hot season. R. F. Burton , El-Medinah, p. 100. wadmalt (wod'mal), n. [Also wadmoll, wad molle, and irreg. wadmeal, woadmel, and (representing Icel.) wadmaal; Yron, Wooll, Wadmolle , Gotefell, Ridfell also. IMG:content-1980.png:[blocks in formation] IMG:content-1981.png:[blocks in formation] waf24. An obsolete preterit of weavel. wafer (wa'fer), n. [ E. waffle ) LG. wafel = G. wabe, a honeycomb, cake of wax; cf. Dan. vaffel = Sw. våffla, wafer ( the modern waffle, and, like it, served hot. For ar [ere] I haue bred of mele, ofte mote I swete. And ar the comune haue corne ynough, many a colde mornynge; So, ar my wafres ben ywrouzt, moc he wo I tholye. Piers Plowman (B), xiii. 263. Wafres pipyng hot out of the gleede [fire]. Chaucer, Miller's Tale, 1. 193. IMG:content-1982.png:[blocks in formation] sent a tions and the references in the early patristic liter a ture 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 cro , 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. The usuall bread and wafer , hitherto named singing cakes, which served for the use of the private Ma e. Abp . Parker , Injunctions (1559), quoted in N. and Q.. 7th (ser., V. 211. thin disk of dried paste, used for sealing letters, fastening documents together, and similar purposes, usu ally made of flour mixed with water, gum, and some nonpoisonous coloring matter. Fancy transparent wafers are made of gelatin and isingla in a variety of forms. Perhaps the folds [of a letter] were lovingly connected by a wafer , pricked with a pin, and the direction written in a vile scrawl, and not a word spelt as it should be. Colman, Jealous Wife, i. (e) In artillery, a kind of primer. See primer2. Fortunately, the wafers by which the guns are discharged had been removed from the vents. Preble, Hist. Flag, p. 471. (f) In med., 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 watchgla -shaped disks of pasty material, which are made to adhere by moistening their edges, the powder being placed in the hollow between the two. Medallion wafer, a wafer bearing some design on a ground of a different color. wadna (wod'nä). A Scotch form (properly two words) of would no that is, would not. wad-punch (wod'punch), n . A kind of wad- cutter. wadset (wod's et), n. [Also wadsett ; wad2 wafer (wa'fer), v. t. [ set1 , stake.] In Scots law , a mortgage, or bond and disposition in security. IMG:content-1983.png:[blocks in formation] tach by means of a wafer or wafers. This little bill is to be wafered on the shop-door. Dickens, Pickwick, 1. 2. To seal or close by means of a wafer. He. wafered his letter, and rushed with it to the neighboring post-office. Mrs. Gaskell , Sylvia's Lovers, xix. wafer-ash (wa'fer-ash), n. The hop-tree, Ptelea trifoliata : so called from its ash-like leaves and flat key-fruit suggesting a wafer. The bark of hop-tree. IMG:content-1984.png:[blocks in formation] waferer