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.

Source : WordNet®

baked
     adj 1: dried out by heat or excessive exposure to sunlight; "a vast
            desert all adust"; "land lying baked in the heat";
            "parched soil"; "the earth was scorched and bare";
            "sunbaked salt flats" [syn: {adust}, {parched}, {scorched},
             {sunbaked}]
     2: (of bread and pastries) cooked by dry heat (as in an oven);
        "baked goods"
     3: hardened by subjecting to intense heat; "baked bricks";
        "burned bricks" [syn: {burned}, {burnt}]