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3 definitions found 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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