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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

... and leave it forever; another was that she was a professor of religion, (so was Mrs. Bellmont;) but Nab, as she called her, did not live accord- ing to her profession; another, that she WOULD sometimes give Nig cake and pie, which she was never allowed to have at home. Mary had often noticed ...

— Our Nig • Harriet E. Wilson

... saw any harm in Uncle Pennyman's texts: they never worried any one but himself; though I must confess that verse about Ephraim being a cake not turned affected us a little. But that was because he had the ague, and Mr. Haines was attending some kind of convention; and what with the chills, and that unexplained cake of Ephraim's, we were kept a little uncomfortable ...

— Not Pretty, But Precious • John Hay, et al.

... and dazzling smile, she ran out to put the chocolate on the grill, and arrange the sandwiches and fruit and cake on the table around the bowl of drooping roses, and then, humming blithely, hurried into her own room to change from her heavy dress to a soft ...

— Eve to the Rescue • Ethel Hueston

... of currants, only when I dropped them Mungo ate them all up, except this one. He didn't eat this one because I stopped him. I said, 'Drop it, Mungo!' and he did. It was a good thing he didn't eat it, wasn't it? I made lines across, did you see? All across the cake! I made those with a hairpin. It was a good plan, ...

— The Professional Aunt • Mary C.E. Wemyss

... half closed, taking with the end of her nail a crumb of cake from his long black whiskers, but her little transparent nostrils trembled with a ...

— The Nabob • Alphonse Daudet

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