cake
    n 1: a block of solid substance (such as soap or wax); "a bar of
         chocolate" [syn: cake, bar]
    2: small flat mass of chopped food [syn: patty, cake]
    3: baked goods made from or based on a mixture of flour, sugar,
       eggs, and fat
    v 1: form a coat over; "Dirt had coated her face" [syn: coat,
         cake]

Cake \Cake\ (k[=a]k), n. [OE. cake, kaak; akin to Dan. kage, Sw.
   & Icel. kaka, D. koek, G.kuchen, OHG. chuocho.]
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   1. A small mass of dough baked; especially, a thin loaf from
      unleavened dough; as, an oatmeal cake; johnnycake.
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   2. A sweetened composition of flour and other ingredients,
      leavened or unleavened, baked in a loaf or mass of any
      size or shape.
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   3. A thin wafer-shaped mass of fried batter; a griddlecake or
      pancake; as buckwheat cakes.
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   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.
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            Cakes of rusting ice come rolling down the flood.
                                                  --Dryden.
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   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.
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Cake \Cake\, v. i.
   To form into a cake, or mass.
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Cake \Cake\, 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.
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         Clotted blood that caked within.         --Addison.
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Cake \Cake\, v. i.
   To cackle as a goose. [Prov. Eng.]
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Cake
   Cakes made of wheat or barley were offered in the temple. They
   were salted, but unleavened (Ex. 29:2; Lev. 2:4). In idolatrous
   worship thin cakes or wafers were offered "to the queen of
   heaven" (Jer. 7:18; 44:19).
   
     Pancakes are described in 2 Sam. 13:8, 9. Cakes mingled with
   oil and baked in the oven are mentioned in Lev. 2:4, and "wafers
   unleavened anointed with oil," in Ex. 29:2; Lev. 8:26; 1 Chr.
   23:29. "Cracknels," a kind of crisp cakes, were among the things
   Jeroboam directed his wife to take with her when she went to
   consult Ahijah the prophet at Shiloh (1 Kings 14:3). Such hard
   cakes were carried by the Gibeonites when they came to Joshua
   (9:5, 12). They described their bread as "mouldy;" but the
   Hebrew word _nikuddim_, here used, ought rather to be rendered
   "hard as biscuit." It is rendered "cracknels" in 1 Kings 14:3.
   The ordinary bread, when kept for a few days, became dry and
   excessively hard. The Gibeonites pointed to this hardness of
   their bread as an evidence that they had come a long journey.
   
     We read also of honey-cakes (Ex. 16:31), "cakes of figs" (1
   Sam. 25:18), "cake" as denoting a whole piece of bread (1 Kings
   17:12), and "a [round] cake of barley bread" (Judg. 7:13). In
   Lev. 2 is a list of the different kinds of bread and cakes which
   were fit for offerings.