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Webster 1913 Edition
Cake
Cake
(kāk)
, Noun.
[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
(Zool)
, 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.
Cake
,Verb.
I.
To form into a cake, or mass.
Cake
,Verb.
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
,Verb.
I.
To cackle as a goose.
[Prov. Eng.]
Webster 1828 Edition
Cake
CAKE
,Noun.
1.
A small mass of dough baked; or a composition of flour, butter, sugar, or other ingredients, baked in a small mass. The name is applied to various compositions, baked or cooked in different shapes.2.
Something in the form of a cake, rather flat than high, but roundish; as a cake on a tree.3.
A mass of matter concreted; as a cake of ice.In New England, a piece of floating ice in a river or lake.
4.
A hard swelling on the flesh; or rather a concretion without such swelling.CAKE
,Verb.
T.
CAKE
,Verb.
I.
CAKE
,Verb.
I.