Hypertext Webster Gateway: "bake"
From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary (easton)
Bake
The duty of preparing bread was usually, in ancient times,
committed to the females or the slaves of the family (Gen. 18:6;
Lev. 26:26; 1 Sam. 8:13); but at a later period we find a class
of public bakers mentioned (Hos. 7:4, 6; Jer. 37:21).
The bread was generally in the form of long or round cakes
(Ex. 29:23; 1 Sam. 2:36), of a thinness that rendered them
easily broken (Isa. 58:7; Matt. 14:19; 26:26; Acts 20:11).
Common ovens were generally used; at other times a jar was
half-filled with hot pebbles, and the dough was spread over
them. Hence we read of "cakes baken on the coals" (1 Kings
19:6), and "baken in the oven" (Lev. 2:4). (See {BREAD}.)
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Bake \Bake\ (b[=a]k), v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Baked} (b[=a]kt); p.
pr. & vb. n. {Baking}.] [AS. bacan; akin to D. bakken, OHG.
bacchan, G. backen, Icel. & Sw. baca, Dan. bage, Gr. ? 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.
Note: 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. --Shak.
They bake their sides upon the cold, hard stone.
--Spenser.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Bake \Bake\, v. i.
1. To do the work of baking something; as, she brews, washes,
and bakes. --Shak.
2. To be baked; to become dry and hard in heat; as, the bread
bakes; the ground bakes in the hot sun.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Bake \Bake\, n.
The process, or result, of baking.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
bake
v 1: cook and make edible by putting in a hot oven; "bake the
potatoes"
2: prepare with dry heat in an oven; "bake a cake"
3: heat by a natural force; "The sun broils the valley in the
summer" [syn: {broil}]
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