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   Bake , v. t. [imp. & p. p. Baked ; p. pr. & vb. n. Baking.] [AS. bacan; akin to D. bakken, OHG. bacchan, G. backen, Icel. & Sw. baka, Dan. bage, Gr. φώγειν to roast.]
   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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   To dry or harden (anything) by subjecting to heat, as, to bake bricks; the sun bakes the ground.
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   To harden by cold.
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   The earth . . . is baked with frost.
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   They bake their sides upon the cold, hard stone.
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   Baking, n.
   The act or process of cooking in an oven, or of drying and hardening by heat or cold.
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   The quantity baked at once; a batch; as, a baking of bread.
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   Baking powder, a substitute for yeast, usually consisting of an acid, a carbonate, and a little farinaceous matter.
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