CAKE, noun 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. 2. Something in the form of a cake rather flat than high, but roundish; as a cake on a tree. 3. A mass of matter concreted; as a cake of ice. In New England, a piece of floating ice in a river or lake. 4. A hard swelling on the flesh; or rather a concretion without such swelling. CAKE, verb transitive To form into a cake or mass. CAKE, verb intransitive To concrete, or form into a had mass, as dough in an oven, or as flesh or any other substance. CAKE, verb intransitive To cackle.
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