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Webster 1913 Edition

Dough

Dough

,
Noun.
[OE.
dagh
,
dogh
,
dow
, AS.
dāh
; akin to D.
deeg
, G.
teig
, Icel.
deig
, Sw.
deg
, Dan.
deig
, Goth.
daigs
; also, to Goth.
deigan
to knead, L.
fingere
to form, shape, Skr.
dih
to smear; cf. Gr. [GREEK] wall, [GREEK] to touch, handle. [GREEK]. Cf.
Feign
,
Figure
,
Dairy
,
Duff
.]
1.
Paste of bread; a soft mass of moistened flour or meal, kneaded or unkneaded, but not yet baked;
as, to knead
dough
.
2.
Anything of the consistency of such paste.
To have one’s cake dough
.
See under
Cake
.

Webster 1828 Edition

Dough

DOUGH

,
Noun.
Do. [G.] Paste of bread; a mass composed of flour or meal moistened and kneaded, but not baked.
My cake is dough, that is, by undertaking has not come to maturity.

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