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Source: WordNet (r) 1.7 

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]

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) 

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.

Source: Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary 

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).