- 1. n. A small mass of dough baked; especially, a thin loaf from unleavened dough; as, an oatmeal cake; johnnycake. Source: opted
- 2. n. A sweetened composition of flour and other ingredients, leavened or unleavened, baked in a loaf or mass of any size or shape. Source: opted
- 3. n. A thin wafer-shaped mass of fried batter; a griddlecake or pancake; as buckwheat cakes. Source: opted
- 4. n. 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. Source: opted
- 5. v. i. To form into a cake, or mass. Source: opted
- 6. v. i. To concrete or consolidate into a hard mass, as dough in an oven; to coagulate. Source: opted
- 7. v. i. To cackle as a goose. Source: opted
- 8. n. a block of solid substance (such as soap or wax) Source: wordnet
- 9. n. small flat mass of chopped or ground food Source: wordnet
- 10. n. food made from or based on a mixture of flour, sugar, eggs, and fat, typically cooked in an oven Source: wordnet
- 11. v. form a coat over Source: wordnet
- 12. 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 (Zoöl), 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. To form into a cake, or mass. To concrete or consolidate into a hard mass, as dough in an oven; to coagulate. Clotted blood that caked within. Addison. To cackle as a goose. [Prov. Eng.] Source: webster
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