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Bake

verb

(past & past part. baked; pres. part. baking)

Cook and make edible by putting in a hot oven.

Prepare with dry heat in an oven.

Heat by a natural force. Synonym: broil.

Be very hot, due to hot weather or exposure to the sun. Synonym: broil. "The tourists were baking in the heat"

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"Bake" Quotes from Famous Books

... that is to say, you most turne euery furrow vpward and lay them as close together as may be, for should you doe otherwise, that is to say, either lay them flat or loosely, the winter season would so beat and bake them together, that when you should sow your seede you would hardly get your plough ...

— The English Husbandman • Gervase Markham

... disobey its principles. Social happiness and peace would certainly follow a whole-hearted acceptance of Christian principles; but they would not certainly bring wealth or empire. 'Philosophy,' said Hegel, 'will bake no man's bread'; and it is only in a spiritual sense that the meek-spirited can expect to possess the earth. Nevertheless, it is a mistake to suppose that a Christian nation would be unable to hold its own in the struggle for existence. A nation in which every citizen endeavoured ...

— Outspoken Essays • William Ralph Inge

... all went to Stonington, Connecticut, where we lived at a hotel called the Wadawanuc House. There I went out sailing—once on a clam-bake excursion in a yacht owned by Captain Nat. Palmer, who had discovered Palmer's Land—and sailed far and wide. That summer I also saw on his own deck the original old Vanderbilt himself, who was then the captain of a Sound steamboat; and I bathed every day in salt-water, ...

— Memoirs • Charles Godfrey Leland

... you are here, so mudder will not hear of it, for though she'd like to see you"—this without a flicker or flinch—"we want her to have a nice rest. I'll come over every day except tomorrow and bring things from the hotel store, and bake up cookies ...

— Our Next-Door Neighbors • Belle Kanaris Maniates

... cook, after a little while, "we must get the pans ready to bake them in. And, as we haven't much room in the kitchen, we will just set the dish of dough and the frosting out on the window sill, where they won't be in our way. As soon as we have the tins greased we will make the buns and put them in the ...

— Sammie and Susie Littletail • Howard R. Garis

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