Hypertext Webster Gateway: "cake"
From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary (easton)
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.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Cake \Cake\, v. i.
To form into a cake, or mass.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
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.
Clotted blood that caked within. --Addison.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Cake \Cake\, v. i.
To cackle as a goose. [Prov. Eng.]
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Cake \Cake\ (k[=a]k), n. [OE. cake, kaak; akin to Dan. kage, Sw.
& Icel. kaka, D. koek, G. kuchen, OHG. 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.
--Dryden.
{Cake urchin} (Zo["o]l), 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.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
cake
n 1: a block of solid substance (such as soap or wax); "a bar of
chocolate" [syn: {bar}]
2: small flat mass of chopped food [syn: {patty}]
3: made from or based on a mixture of flour and sugar and eggs
v : form a coat over; "Dirt had coated her face" [syn: {coat}]
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