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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
; johnny
cake
.
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.
To form into a cake or mass.

CAKE

,
Verb.
I.
To concrete, or form into a had mass, as dough in an oven, or as flesh or any other substance.

CAKE

,
Verb.
I.
To cackle.