Hypertext Webster Gateway: "baking"
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)
Baking \Bak"ing\, n.
1. The act or process of cooking in an oven, or of drying and
hardening by heat or cold.
2. The quantity baked at once; a batch; as, a baking of
bread.
{Baking powder}, a substitute for yeast, usually consisting
of an acid, a carbonate, and a little farinaceous matter.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
baking
adj : as hot as if in an oven [syn: {baking hot}]
n 1: making bread or cake or pastry etc.
2: cooking by dry heat in an oven
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