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   Cake , n. [OE. cake, kaak; akin to Dan. kage, Sw. & Icel. kaka, D. koek, G.kuchen, OHG. chuocho.]
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   A small mass of dough baked; especially, a thin loaf from unleavened dough; as, an oatmeal cake; johnnycake.
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   A sweetened composition of flour and other ingredients, leavened or unleavened, baked in a loaf or mass of any size or shape.
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   A thin wafer-shaped mass of fried batter; a griddlecake or pancake; as buckwheat cakes.
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   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.
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   Cakes of rusting ice come rolling down the flood.
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   Cake urchin (Zool), 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.
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   Cake, v. i. To form into a cake, or mass.
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   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.
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   Clotted blood that caked within.
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   Cake, v. i. To cackle as a goose. [Prov. Eng.]
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