A thick, malleable mixture of flour, liquid, and sometimes other ingredients, used for baking into bread, pastry, biscuits, etc.

Dough made from rye flour, used either as a culinary ingredient or as a material for moulding or modelling.

dough for baking into bread.

The soft fermenting dough of which bread is made. Frequently in the phrase to set (or lay) the sponge.

U.S. A small cake used to raise bread: see quots. ? local.

North American. Fermenting dough, esp. that left over from a previous baking, used as leaven; bread made from this. Also attributive.