Bake
Bake (bāk) , transitive verb
[Anglo-Saxon bacan; akin to Dutch bakken, Old High German bacchan, German backen, Icelandic & Swedish baka, Danish bage, Greek fw`gein to roast.]
1.
To prepare, as food, by cooking in a dry heat, either in an oven or under coals, or on heated stone or metal; as, to bake bread, meat, apples.
Baking is the term usually applied to that method of cooking which exhausts the moisture in food more than roasting or broiling; but the distinction of meaning between roasting and baking is not always observed.
2.
To dry or harden (anything) by subjecting to heat, as, to bake bricks; the sun bakes the ground.
3.
To harden by cold.
The earth... is baked with frost.
They bake their sides upon the cold, hard stone.
Bake , intransitive verb
1.
To do the work of baking something; as, she brews, washes, and bakes. — Shakespeare
2.
To be baked; to become dry and hard in heat; as, the bread bakes; the ground bakes in the hot sun.
Bake , noun
The process, or result, of baking.