Cake

[Dan. kage, Sw. & Icel. kaka, D. koek, L. Ger. koke, N. H. Ger. kuchen, M. H. Ger. kuoche, O. H. Ger. chuocho, Prov. Fr. couque, Catalan coca, from Lat. coquere, to cook, bake.]

1Sense 1. A small mass of dough baked; or a composition of flour, butter, sugar, or other ingredients, baked in a small mass. The name is applied to various compositions, baked or cooked in different shapes.

Our cake's dough, on both sides. Shak.

2Sense 2. A mass of matter concreted in a form rather flat than high; as, a cake of soap.

Cakes of rustling ice come rolling down the flood. Dryden.

[ĭmp. & p. p. CAKED (kākt); p. pr. & vb. n. CAKING.] To concrete or form into a hard mass, as dough in an oven, or as flesh, or any other substance. “Clotted blood that caked within.” Addison.

[M. H. Ger. gagen, gâgen, to make a noise as a goose. See CACKLE.] To cackle. [Obs.] Ray.