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What's The Definition Of Cake?

\Cake\ (k[=a]k), n. [OE. cake, kaak; akin to Dan. kage, Sw. & Icel. kaka, D. koek, G. kuchen, OHG. chuocho.] 1. A small mass of dough baked; especially, a thin loaf from unleavened dough; as, an oatmeal cake; johnnycake. 2. A sweetened composition of flour and other ingredients, leavened or unleavened, baked in a loaf or mass of any size or shape. 3. A thin wafer-shaped mass of fried batter; a griddlecake or pancake; as buckwheat cakes. 4. 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. Cakes of rusting ice come rolling down the flood. --Dryden. {Cake urchin} (Zo["o]l), 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. --Shak.
\Cake\, v. i. To form into a cake, or mass.
\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. Clotted blood that caked within. --Addison.
\Cake\, v. i. To cackle as a goose. [Prov. Eng.]