Hypertext Webster Gateway: "dough"
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).
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) 1.7 (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}]
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