Cake — Defs

01 n. A small mass of dough baked; especially, a thin loaf from unleavened dough; as, an oatmeal cake; johnnycake.

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.

Phrases & compounds

Cake urchin — 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.

02 v. i. To form into a cake, or mass.

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To form into a cake, or mass.

03 v. i. To concrete or consolidate into a hard mass, as dough in an oven; to coagulate.

imp. & p. p. Caked; p. pr. & vb. n. Caking

1.
To concrete or consolidate into a hard mass, as dough in an oven; to coagulate.
“Clotted blood that caked within.” — Addison.

04 v. i. To cackle as a goose.

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To cackle as a goose.[Prov. Eng.]