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Webster's Dictionary (1865)

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Bake

Bake, v. t.

verbtransitive

v. t. [imp. & p. p. BAKED; p. pr. & vb. n. BAKING.] [A-S. bacan, Icel. & Sw. baka, Dan. bage, D. bakken, O. H. Ger. pachen, N. H. Ger. backen, Skr. patsh, Slav. pesh-ti, present tense peka.]

Sense 1. To heat, dry, and harden, as in an oven or furnace, or under coals of fire, or by the solar rays; as, to bake bricks; the sun bakes the ground. Specifically, to prepare for food, in a close place heated; as, to bake bread.

Sense 2. To harden by cold. “The earth . . . is baked with frost.” Shaks.

They bake their sides upon the cold, hard stone. Spencer.

Bāke, v. i.

verbintransitive

v. i. 1. To do the work of baking; as, she brews, washes, and bakes. 2. To be baked; to dry and harden in heat; as, the bread bakes; the ground bakes in the hot sun.