GNU Collaborative International Dictionary of English
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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”.
[1913 Webster]
☞ 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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baked (bākt), adj.
2. dried out by heat or excessive exposure to sunlight.
Syn. -- adust, parched, scorched, sunbaked.
[WordNet 1.5]
2. cooked with dry heat in an oven; -- of bread and pastries.
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