Source : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Bake \Bake\ (b[=a]k), v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Baked} (b[=a]kt); p.
   pr. & vb. n. {Baking}.] [AS. bacan; akin to D. bakken, OHG.
   bacchan, G. backen, Icel. & Sw. baca, Dan. bage, Gr. ? to
   roast.]
   1. To prepare, as food, by cooking in a dry heat, either in
      an oven or under coals, or on heated stone or metal; as,
      to bake bread, meat, apples.

   Note: Baking is the term usually applied to that method of
         cooking which exhausts the moisture in food more than
         roasting or broiling; but the distinction of meaning
         between roasting and baking is not always observed.

   2. To dry or harden (anything) by subjecting to heat, as, to
      bake bricks; the sun bakes the ground.

   3. To harden by cold.

            The earth . . . is baked with frost.  --Shak.

            They bake their sides upon the cold, hard stone.
                                                  --Spenser.

Bake \Bake\, v. i.
   1. To do the work of baking something; as, she brews, washes,
      and bakes. --Shak.

   2. To be baked; to become dry and hard in heat; as, the bread
      bakes; the ground bakes in the hot sun.

Bake \Bake\, n.
   The process, or result, of baking.

Source : WordNet®

bake
     v 1: cook and make edible by putting in a hot oven; "bake the
          potatoes"
     2: prepare with dry heat in an oven; "bake a cake"
     3: heat by a natural force; "The sun broils the valley in the
        summer" [syn: {broil}]