Source : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
Cake \Cake\, v. i.
To form into a cake, or mass.
Cake \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 \Cake\, v. i.
To cackle as a goose. [Prov. Eng.]
Cake \Cake\ (k[=a]k), 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} (Zo["o]l), 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.
Source : WordNet®
cake
n 1: a block of solid substance (such as soap or wax); "a bar of
chocolate" [syn: {bar}]
2: small flat mass of chopped food [syn: {patty}]
3: made from or based on a mixture of flour and sugar and eggs
v : form a coat over; "Dirt had coated her face" [syn: {coat}]