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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Dough \Dough\, n. [OE. dagh, dogh, dow, AS d[=a]h; 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 ? wall, ? to touch, handle. ?. 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}.
From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]:
dough
n 1: a flour mixture stiff enough to knead or roll
2: informal terms for money [syn: {shekels}, {gelt}, {bread}, {dinero},
{lucre}, {loot}, {pelf}, {moolah}, {cabbage}, {kale}]
From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]:
Dough
(batsek, meaning "swelling," i.e., in fermentation). The dough
the Israelites had prepared for baking was carried away by them
out of Egypt in their kneading-troughs (Ex. 12:34, 39). In the
process of baking, the dough had to be turned (Hos. 7:8).
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