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



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