[keyk] Pronunciation Key noun, verb, caked, cak·ing. | 1. | a sweet, baked, breadlike food, made with or without shortening, and usually containing flour, sugar, baking powder or soda, eggs, and liquid flavoring. |
| 2. | a flat, thin mass of bread, esp. unleavened bread. |
| 3. | pancake; griddlecake. |
| 4. | a shaped or molded mass of other food: a fish cake. |
| 5. | a shaped or compressed mass: a cake of soap; a cake of ice. |
| 6. | Animal Husbandry. a compacted block of soybeans, cottonseeds, or linseeds from which the oil has been pressed, usually used as a feed or feed supplement for cattle. |
| 7. | to form into a crust or compact mass. |
| 8. | to become formed into a crust or compact mass. |
| 9. | a piece of cake, Informal. something easily done: She thought her first solo flight was a piece of cake. |
| 10. | take the cake, Informal.
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n.
v. caked, cak·ing, cakes v. tr. To cover or fill with a thick layer, as of compacted matter: a miner whose face was caked with soot. v. intr. To become formed into a compact or crusty mass: As temperatures dropped, the wet snow caked. [Middle English, from Old Norse kaka.] |
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"What man, I trow ye raue, Wolde ye bothe eate your cake and haue your cake?" ["The Proverbs & Epigrams of John Heywood," 1562]
| cake | |
noun | |
| 1. | a block of solid substance (such as soap or wax); "a bar of chocolate" |
| 2. | small flat mass of chopped food [syn: patty] |
| 3. | baked goods made from or based on a mixture of flour, sugar, eggs, and fat |
verb | |
| 1. | form a coat over; "Dirt had coated her face" [syn: coat] |
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Cake
Cac"kle\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Cackled (-k'ld); p. pr. & vb. n. Cackling.] [OE. cakelen; cf. LG. kakeln, D. kakelen, G. gackeln, gackern; all of imitative origin. Cf. Gagle, Cake to cackle.]1. To make a sharp, broken noise or cry, as a hen or goose does. When every goose is cackling. --Shak. 2. To laugh with a broken noise, like the cackling of a hen or a goose; to giggle. --Arbuthnot. 3. To talk in a silly manner; to prattle. --Johnson.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.Cake
Cake\, v. i. To form into a cake, or mass.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.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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