cake

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 ]