(a) Dough for the making of bread or pastry; also fig.; also, dough for making horse feed [quot.: *Bk.Marchalsi]; due ~, dough of correct composition; swete ~, unleavened dough; (b) pastry or bread; also fig.; ?also, porridge or gruel [quot.: *Medulla]; ~ roial (real), some sort of sweet pastry; (c) a pie, a pastry; (d) ~ bord, a dough board; ~ hous, a room for making pastry; ~ makere, a maker of pastry; ~ man, one who makes or sells pastry; crampaste, q.v.; (e) as surname.

The dough for Communion bread or the bread itself; also, bread or a wafer of bread for Jewish religious uses.

Food; a meal.

As a medicinal preparation: (a) bread or dough to be eaten, or mixed with liquid and drunk; (b) a dough to be applied locally, a plaster; also, a dough to be baked and then applied locally; (c) dough used as a plaster to seal a leather layer over the skin of a horse as protection from hot medicines used in treating warts.

(a) A dough or paste used as a sealant, an adhesive, or a casing in which to cook medicinal substances; (b) in dyeing or painting: the chalky medium of a pigment.

(a) In descriptions of the thickness or hardness of substances; thik (sad, neshe) as ~; (b) in ~, in the form of dough.