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A thin, crisp cake, usually small, and flavored with ginger; -- used chiefly in the plural.

A small crisp cake, highly spiced.

face is covered with larger and smaller tufts, having the oscula between them. -- Sponge cake, a kind of sweet cake which is light and spongy. -- Sponge lead, or Spongy lead (Chem.), metallic lead brought to a spongy form by reduction of lead salts, or by compressing finely divided lead; -- used in secondary batterie…

ities; of an open, loose, pliable texture; as, a spongy excrescence; spongy earth; spongy cake; spongy bones.

A flattish cake or piece; as, tablets of arsenic were formerly worn as a preservative against the plague.

To wait for; to stay or stop for. [Archaic] He that will have a cake out of the wheat must needs tarry the grinding. Shak. He plodded on, . . . tarrying no further question. Sir W. Scott.

Valued or sold at ten pence; as, a tenpenny cake. See 2d Penny, n.

An unleavened cake, as of maize flour, baked on a heated iron or stone.

Copper so reduced; -- called also tough-cake.

A dish composed of sweetmeats, fruits, cake, wine, etc., with syllabub poured over it.

A thin cake made of flour 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.

A dealer in the cakes called wafers; a confectioner. [Obs.] Chaucer.

A thin cake baked and then rolled; a wafer.

A kind of white and fine bread or cake; -- called also wastel bread, and wastel cake. [Obs.] Roasted flesh or milk and wasted bread. Chaucer. The simnel bread and wastel cakes, which were only used at the tables of the highest nobility. Sir W. Scott.

A kind of raised seedcake. "Wiggs and ale." Pepys.

n saccharine or farinaceous substances; a preparation used for raising dough for bread or cakes, and making it light and puffy; barm; ferment.