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noun

Cake n.

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

A sweetened composition of flour and other ingredients, leavened or unleavened, baked in a loaf or mass of any size or shape.

A thin wafer-shaped mass of fried batter; a griddlecake or pancake; as buckwheat cakes.

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."

Cake urchin (Zool), 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.

verb

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

Cake v. i. (past & past part. caked; pres. part. caking) To concrete or consolidate into a hard mass, as dough in an oven; to coagulate. "Clotted blood that caked within."

Cake v. i. To cackle as a goose. (Prov. Eng.)

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"Cake" Quotes from Famous Books

... that this flesh were turned a cake of ice, That I might in an instant melt away, And become nothing, to escape this torment! There is not cold enough in all the north To quench my burning blood. ...

— The Works of John Dryden, Volume 5 (of 18) - Amboyna; The state of Innocence; Aureng-Zebe; All for Love • John Dryden

... have a cocoanut," suggested Sue. "My mother has some cocoanut for a cake, and there's a picture of a monkey on the paper, ...

— Bunny Brown and his Sister Sue Giving a Show • Laura Lee Hope

... moment my hand fell upon a small, square object in the other pocket of the coat. I pulled it out. It was a cake of Virginia leaf. Without a word, I held it up, and looked at Patrick. He ...

— The Ruling Passion • Henry van Dyke

... Here will be at last that strange master of her fate, the bridegroom and his best man (paranymphos). Her father will offer sacrifice (probably a lamb), and after the sacrifice everybody will feast on the flesh of the victim; and also share a large flat cake of pounded sesame seeds roasted and mixed with honey. As the evening advances the wedding car will be outside the door. The mother hands the bride over to the groom, who leads her to the chariot, and he and the groomsman ...

— A Day In Old Athens • William Stearns Davis

... the words, go and come. A very good rule would be, to have nothing to eat, in a farmer's or tradesman's house, that the mistress did not know how to prepare and to cook; no pudding, tart, pie or cake, that she did not know how to make. Never fear the toil to her: exercise is good for health; and without health there is no beauty; a sick beauty may excite pity, but pity is a short-lived passion. Besides, ...

— Advice to Young Men • William Cobbett

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