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Cake : (noun)
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
(verb)
1: form a coat over; "Dirt had coated her face" [syn: coat]
Based on WordNet 2.0
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Cake : \Cake\, v. i.
To form into a cake, or mass.
Based on Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
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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.
Based on Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
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Cake : \Cake\, v. i.
To cackle as a goose. [Prov. Eng.]
Based on Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
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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.
Based on Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
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Cake : Cakes made of wheat or barley were offered in the temple. They
were salted, but unleavened (Ex. 29:2; Lev. 2:4). In idolatrous
worship thin cakes or wafers were offered "to the queen of
heaven" (Jer. 7:18; 44:19).
Pancakes are described in 2 Sam. 13:8, 9. Cakes mingled with
oil and baked in the oven are mentioned in Lev. 2:4, and "wafers
unleavened anointed with oil," in Ex. 29:2; Lev. 8:26; 1 Chr.
23:29. "Cracknels," a kind of crisp cakes, were among the things
Jeroboam directed his wife to take with her when she went to
consult Ahijah the prophet at Shiloh (1 Kings 14:3). Such hard
cakes were carried by the Gibeonites when they came to Joshua
(9:5, 12). They described their bread as "mouldy;" but the
Hebrew word _nikuddim_, here used, ought rather to be rendered
"hard as biscuit." It is rendered "cracknels" in 1 Kings 14:3.
The ordinary bread, when kept for a few days, became dry and
excessively hard. The Gibeonites pointed to this hardness of
their bread as an evidence that they had come a long journey.
We read also of honey-cakes (Ex. 16:31), "cakes of figs" (1
Sam. 25:18), "cake" as denoting a whole piece of bread (1 Kings
17:12), and "a [round] cake of barley bread" (Judg. 7:13). In
Lev. 2 is a list of the different kinds of bread and cakes which
were fit for offerings.
Based on Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
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