CAKING
Verb
caking
present participle of cake
Noun
caking (plural cakings)
A layer or deposit of caked material.
Source: Wiktionary
CAKE
Cake, n. Etym: [OE. cake, kaak; akin to Dan. kage, Sw. & Icel. kaka,
D. koek, G.kuchem, 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 (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.
Cake, v. i.
Definition: To form into a cake, or mass.
Cake, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Caked; p. pr. & vb. n. Caking.]
Definition: To concrete or consolidate into a hard mass, as dough in an
oven; to coagulate.
Clotted blood that caked within. Addison.
Cake, v. i.
Definition: To cackle as a goose. [Prov. Eng.]
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition