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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

... went off and fetched two teapoys; but they also brought a couple of small boxes with partitions. When they came to be opened and to be examined, the contents of each were found to consist of two kinds of viands. In the one, were two sorts of steamed eatables. One of these was a sweet cake, made of lotus powder, scented with sun-flower. The other being rolls with goose fat and fir cone seeds. The second box contained two kinds of fried eatables; one of which was small dumplings, ...

— Hung Lou Meng, Book II • Cao Xueqin

... unmistakable Dutch, pointing to the half-eaten cake in his hand, "boy, give me that. I am hungry." She spoke like one accustomed to instant obedience, taking the cake without a word of thanks and eating it prettily, her large blue eyes never leaving Samuel's wondering face. When nothing ...

— The New Land - Stories of Jews Who Had a Part in the Making of Our Country • Elma Ehrlich Levinger

... Had a dirty piece of dough in his hands which he said was going to be a cake. I must say she seems good to Bertie, but I would not tolerate her impertinence for ...

— A Romance of Billy-Goat Hill • Alice Hegan Rice

... peeped out of the nursery window, might be seen a round, bright, patient pair of bird's eyes contentedly waiting for the young birds to come. It seemed a long time for the children to wait; but every day they put some bread and cake from their luncheon on the window-sill, so that the birds might have something to eat; but still ...

— Queer Little Folks • Harriet Beecher Stowe

... more. Here I am, and here I'll stay, if Sarah Ma'sh don't get a stiver of pudding or fowl. Here, honey, I reckon you best slice this citron. You've got a dainty hand for such work and—my sake's alive! That fruit cake'd ought to been made weeks ago, if it was to get any sort of ripeness into it before it was et! Hurry up, do. We haven't a minute ...

— Jessica, the Heiress • Evelyn Raymond

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