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A culinary utensil of metal with a plate or disk which is heated, and held over pastry, etc., to brown it.

A dish of crust or pastry and meat or fish, etc., cooked together in alternate layers, -- a common food of sailors; as, a three-decker sea pie.

Breaking or crumbling readily in the mouth; crisp; as, short pastry.

To make short or friable, as pastry, with butter, lard, pot liquor, or the like. To shorten a rope (Naut.), to take in the slack of it. -- To shorten sail (Naut.), to reduce sail by taking it in.

That which renders pastry short or friable, as butter, lard, etc.

A species of small open pie, or piece of pastry, containing jelly or conserve; a sort of fruit pie.

eparation, as of chicken, lobster, cheese, or fish, cooked in a drum-shaped mold; also, a pastry case, usually small, filled with a cooked mixture.

Food; pastry; sweetmeats. [Slang] T. Hughes.

r and other ingredients. Wafers piping hot out of the gleed. Chaucer. The curious work in pastry, the fine cakes, wafers, and marchpanes. Holland. A woman's oaths are wafers -- break with making B. Jonson.