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.

Baking \Bak"ing\, n.
   1. The act or process of cooking in an oven, or of drying and
      hardening by heat or cold.

   2. The quantity baked at once; a batch; as, a baking of
      bread.

   {Baking powder}, a substitute for yeast, usually consisting
      of an acid, a carbonate, and a little farinaceous matter.

Source : WordNet®

baking
     adj : as hot as if in an oven [syn: {baking hot}]

baking
     n 1: making bread or cake or pastry etc.
     2: cooking by dry heat in an oven