cake

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1. 1.A sweetened composition of flour and other ingredients, leavened or unleavened, baked in a loaf or mass of any size or shape.
2. 2.A thin wafer-shaped mass of fried batter; a griddlecake or pancake; as buckwheat cakes.
3. 3.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 (Zoöl), 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.
4. 4.To form into a cake, or mass.
5. 5.To concrete or consolidate into a hard mass, as dough in an oven; to coagulate. Clotted blood that caked within. Addison.
6. 6.To cackle as a goose. [Prov. Eng.]

Source: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).

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• What is a sweetened composition of flour and other ingredients, leavened or unleavened, baked in a loaf or mass of any size or shape called?
• What is a thin wafer-shaped mass of fried batter; a griddlecake or pancake; as buckwheat cakes called?
• What is to concrete or consolidate into a hard mass, as dough in an oven; to coagulate. Clotted blood that caked within. Addison called?