Cake , v. i. To cackle as a goose. [Prov. Eng.]
Cake , v. i. [imp. & p. p. Caked (?);
p. pr. & vb. n.
Caking.]
To concrete or consolidate into a hard mass, as dough in an oven; to coagulate.
Clotted blood that caked within.
Addison.
Cake , v. i. To form into a cake, or mass.
Cake (kāk),
n. [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.
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