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Cake

Cake (cake)
n.(k1913 webster dictionaryk)
Cake
[OE. cake, kaak; akin to Dan. kage, Sw. *** Icel. kaka, D. koek, G. kuchen, OHG. chuocho.]

  1. A small mass of dough baked] especially, a thin loaf from unleavened dough; as, an oatmeal cake; johnnycake.
  2. A sweetened composition of flour and other ingredients, leavened or unleavened, baked in a loaf or mass of any size or shape.
  3. A thin wafer-shaped mass of fried batter; a griddlecake or pancake; as buckwheat cakes.
  4. A mass of matter concreted, congealed, or molded into a solid mass of any form, esp. into a form rather flat than high; as, a cake of soap; an ague cake.

    Cakes of rusting ice come rolling down the flood.
    Dryden.

    Cake urchin (Zoöl), any species of flat sea urchins belonging to the Clypeastroidea. -- Oil cake the refuse of flax seed, cotton seed, or other vegetable substance from which oil has been expressed, compacted into a solid mass, and used as food for cattle, for manure, or for other purposes. -- To have one's cake dough, to fail or be disappointed in what one has undertaken or expected. Shak.


Cake

Cake (cake)
v. i.
Cake
  1. To form into a cake, or mass.

Cake

Cake (cake)
v. i.
Cake
  1. To concrete or consolidate into a hard mass, as dough in an oven] to coagulate.

    Clotted blood that caked within.
    Addison.


Cake

Cake (cake)
v. i.
Cake
  1. To cackle as a goose.
    [Prov. Eng.]













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