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n. [ OE. cake, kaak; akin to Dan. kage, Sw. & Icel. kaka, D. koek, G.kuchen, OHG. chuocho. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

1. A small mass of dough baked; especially, a thin loaf from unleavened dough; as, an oatmeal cake; johnnycake. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A sweetened composition of flour and other ingredients, leavened or unleavened, baked in a loaf or mass of any size or shape. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. A thin wafer-shaped mass of fried batter; a griddlecake or pancake; as buckwheat cakes. [ 1913 Webster ]

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. [ 1913 Webster ]

Cakes of rusting ice come rolling down the flood. Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

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. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. To form into a cake, or mass. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. [ imp. & p. p. Caked p. pr. & vb. n. Caking. ] To concrete or consolidate into a hard mass, as dough in an oven; to coagulate. [ 1913 Webster ]

Clotted blood that caked within. Addison. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. To cackle as a goose. [ Prov. Eng. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

See Coal. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ , n. Oatmeal cake or bread clapped or beaten till it is thin. [ Obs. ] Halliwell. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. a cake or sweet bread usually glazed after baking, and having added nuts and fruits; it is often served with coffee.
Syn. -- coffee cake. [ WordNet 1.5 +PJC ]

n. (Cookery) A kind of cake filled with custard made of cream, eggs, etc. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. a flat cake of thin batter fried on both sides on a griddle; a pancake; a flapjack.
Syn. -- pancake, battercake, flapcake, flapjack, griddlecake, hotcake, hot cake. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. A small cake fried in deep fat. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

(Cookery) A rich glazed cake, with almonds, pistachios, filberts, or other nuts; also, a rich currant cake with almonds on the top. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

n. A cake baked or fried on a griddle, esp. a thin batter cake, as of buckwheat or common flour. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A cake of Indian meal, water, and salt, baked before the fire or in the ashes; -- so called because often cooked on a hoe. [ Southern U.S. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A kind of bread made of the meal of maize (Indian corn), mixed with water or milk, etc., and baked. [ U.S. ] J. Barlow. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A made of light and dark batter very lightly blended, so as to produce a variegated appearance resembling that of marble. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. The incorporated materials for gunpowder, in the form of a dense mass or cake, ready to be subjected to the process of granulation. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Corrupted fr. Indian nookhik meal. Palfrey. ] Indian corn parched, and beaten to powder, -- used for food by the Northern American Indians. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A cake made of oatmeal. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A thin cake of batter fried in a pan or on a griddle; a griddlecake; a flapjack. “A pancake for Shrove Tuesday.” Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A kind of rich, sweet cake; -- so called from the ingredients being used by pounds, or in equal quantities. [ 1913 Webster ]

. A cake of compressed substance, as: in gunpowder manufacture, the cake resulting from compressing the meal powder; in the treatment of coal tar, the pressed product at various stages of the process; or, in beet-sugar manufacture, the vegetable residue after the sugar juice has been expressed. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

A kind of rich sweet cake made for routs, or evening parties.

Twenty-four little rout cakes that were lying neglected in a plate. Thackeray. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

n. A sweet cake or cooky containing aromatic seeds, as caraway. Tusser. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. An unsweetened breakfast cake shortened with butter or lard, rolled thin, and baked. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. See Tough-pitch (b). [ 1913 Webster ]