Cake
Cake (kāk) , noun
[Old English cake, kaak; akin to Danish kage, Swedish & Icelandic kaka, Dutch koek, German kuchen, Old High German chuocho.]
1.
A small mass of dough baked; especially, a thin loaf from unleavened dough; as, an oatmeal cake; johnnycake.
2.
A sweetened composition of flour and other ingredients, leavened or unleavened, baked in a loaf or mass of any size or shape.
3.
A thin wafer-shaped mass of fried batter; a griddlecake or pancake; as buckwheat cakes.
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.
Cakes of rusting ice come rolling down the flood.
Collocations (3)
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. — Shakespeare
Cake , intransitive verb
To form into a cake, or mass.
Cake , intransitive verb
To concrete or consolidate into a hard mass, as dough in an oven; to coagulate.
Clotted blood that caked within.
Cake , intransitive verb
To cackle as a goose. [Provincial English]