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6 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Cake \Cake\, v. i. To form into a cake, or mass. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: 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. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Cake \Cake\, v. i. To cackle as a goose. [Prov. Eng.] From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: 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. From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: cake n 1: a block of soap or wax [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 v : form a coat over "Dirt had coated her face" [syn: {coat}] From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]: 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.
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