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2 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Bake \Bake\ (b[=a]k), v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Baked} (b[=a]kt); p. pr & vb n. {Baking}.] [AS. bacan; akin to D. bakken OHG. bacchan, G. backen, Icel. & Sw baca, Dan. bage, Gr ? to roast.] 1. To prepare, as food, by cooking in a dry heat, either in an oven or under coals, or on heated stone or metal; as to bake bread, meat, apples. Note: Baking is the term usually applied to that method of cooking which exhausts the moisture in food more than roasting or broiling; but the distinction of meaning between roasting and baking is not always observed. 2. To dry or harden anything by subjecting to heat, as to bake bricks; the sun bakes the ground. 3. To harden by cold. The earth . . . is baked with frost. --Shak. They bake their sides upon the cold, hard stone. --Spenser. From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: baked adj 1: dried out by heat or excessive exposure to sunlight; "a vast desert all adust"; "land lying baked in the heat"; "parched soil"; "the earth was scorched and bare"; "sunbaked salt flats" [syn: {adust}, {parched}, {scorched}, {sunbaked}] 2: (of bread and pastries) cooked by dry heat (as in an oven); "baked goods" 3: hardened by subjecting to intense heat; "baked bricks"; "burned bricks" [syn: {burned}, {burnt}]
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