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English Dictionary: dough' by the DICT Development Group
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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Dough \Dough\, n. [OE. dagh, dogh, dow, AS. d[be]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 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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