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3 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: 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. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: 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. From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: baking adj : as hot as if in an oven [syn: {baking hot}] n 1: creating bread or pastry in an oven [syn: {bakery}] 2: cooking (bread) by dry heat in an oven [syn: {bake}]
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