Cake

[keɪk] or [kek]

Definition

(noun.) a block of solid substance (such as soap or wax); 'a bar of chocolate'.

(noun.) baked goods made from or based on a mixture of flour, sugar, eggs, and fat.

Editor: Margaret--From WordNet

Definition

(n.) A small mass of dough baked; especially, a thin loaf from unleavened dough; as, an oatmeal cake; johnnycake.

(n.) A sweetened composition of flour and other ingredients, leavened or unleavened, baked in a loaf or mass of any size or shape.

(n.) A thin wafer-shaped mass of fried batter; a griddlecake or pancake; as buckwheat cakes.

(n.) 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.

(v. i.) To form into a cake, or mass.

(v. i.) To concrete or consolidate into a hard mass, as dough in an oven; to coagulate.

(v. i.) To cackle as a goose.

Checker: Zachariah

Synonyms and Synonymous

v. n. Harden, solidify, concrete, become firm or solid.

Edited by Leopold

Definition

n. a piece of dough that is baked: a small loaf of fine bread: any flattened mass baked as pan-cake &c. or as soap wax tobacco &c.: a thin hard-baked kind of oaten-bread—whence Scotland is styled the 'Land of Cakes:' fancy bread sweetened: a composition of bread with butter sugar spices currants raisins &c. baked into any form—plum-cake tea-cake wedding-cake.—v.t. to form into a cake or hard mass.—v.i. to become baked or hardened.—adj. Cak′y.—Cakes and ale a phrase covering vaguely all the good things of life.—To take the cake (slang) to carry off the honours rank first.

Typist: Veronica

Unserious Contents or Definition

Batter or pancakes, denote that the affections of the dreamer are well placed, and a home will be bequeathed to him or her. To dream of sweet cakes, is gain for the laboring and a favorable opportunity for the enterprising. Those in love will prosper. Pound cake is significant of much pleasure either from society or business. For a young woman to dream of her wedding cake is the only bad luck cake in the category. Baking them is not so good an omen as seeing them or eating them.

Edited by Jessica

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Editor: Stu

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