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   Bake (bāk), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Baked (bākt); p. pr. & vb. n. Baking.] [AS. bacan; akin to D. bakken, OHG. bacchan, G. backen, Icel. & Sw. baka, Dan. bage, Gr. φώγειν 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”.
   
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   ☞ 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.
   
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   2. To dry or harden (anything) by subjecting to heat, as, “to bake bricks; the sun bakes the ground”.
   
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   3. To harden by cold.
   
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   The earth . . . is baked with frost. Shak.
   
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   They bake their sides upon the cold, hard stone. Spenser.
   
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   Bake, v. i.
   1. To do the work of baking something; as, “she brews, washes, and bakes”.  Shak.
   
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   2. To be baked; to become dry and hard in heat; as, “the bread bakes; the ground bakes in the hot sun”.
   
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   Bake, n. The process, or result, of baking.
   
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