B. Jonson.
2. (Eccl.) 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.
3. 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.
Wa"fer, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Wafered (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Wafering.] To
seal or close with a wafer.
Wa"fer*er (?), n. A dealer in the cakes called wafers; a confectioner.
[Obs.] Chaucer.
Waffle (?), n. [D. wafel. See Wafer.] 1. A thin cake baked and then
rolled; a wafer.