Word Meanings - BAKE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

bacan; akin to D. bakken, OHG. bacchan, G. backen, Icel. & Sw. baca, Dan. bage, Gr. 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

Additional info about word: BAKE

bacan; akin to D. bakken, OHG. bacchan, G. backen, Icel. & Sw. baca, Dan. bage, Gr. 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 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.

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• BREADEN
  Made of bread.
• BAKING
  1. The act or process of cooking in an oven, or of drying and hardening by heat or cold. 2. The quantity baked at once; a batch; as, a baking of bread. Baking powder, a substitute for yeast, usually consisting of an acid, a carbonate, and a little
• BREADBASKET
  The stomach. S. Foote.
• BACCHANTE
  1. A priestess of Bacchus. 2. A female bacchanal.
• BREADFRUIT
  The tree itself, which is one of considerable size, with large, lobed leaves. Cloth is made from the bark, and the timber is used for many purposes. Called also breadfruit tree and bread tree. (more info) 1. The fruit of a tree found
• BREADTHWISE
  In the direction of the breadth.
• BREADTHLESS
  Without breadth.
• BAKEMEAT; BAKED-MEAT
  A pie; baked food. Gen. xl. 17. Shak.
• BACCHANT
  1. A priest of Bacchus. 2. A bacchanal; a reveler. Croly.
• BREADROOT
  The root of a leguminous plant , found near the Rocky Mountains. It is usually oval in form, and abounds in farinaceous matter, affording sweet and palatable food. Note: It is the Pomme blanche of Canadian voyageurs.
• BREADSTUFF
  Grain, flour, or meal of which bread is made.
• BACCHANALIA
  A feast or an orgy in honor of Bacchus. 2. Hence: A drunken feast; drunken reveler. (more info) Bacchus; in the pl. Bacchanalia a feast of Bacchus, fr. Bacchus the god of wine, Gr.
• BAKISTRE
  A baker. Chaucer.
• BAKERY
  1. The trade of a baker. 2. The place for baking bread; a bakehouse.
• BACCHANAL
  1. Relating to Bacchus or his festival. 2. Engaged in drunken revels; drunken and riotous or noisy.
• BAKEN
  p. p. of Bake.
• BREADCORN
  Corn of grain of which bread is made, as wheat, rye, etc.
• BACCHANALIAN
  A bacchanal; a drunken reveler.
• BREAD
  To spread. Ray.
• BAKINGLY
  In a hot or baking manner.
• BARBACANAGE
  See BARBICANAGE
• SWINEBREAD
  The truffle.
• SHEWBREAD
  See SHOWBREAD
• HARDBAKE
  A sweetmeat of boiled brown sugar or molasses made with almonds, and flavored with orange or lemon juice, etc. Thackeray.
• WAYBREAD
  The common dooryard plantain .
• GINGERBREAD
  A kind of plain sweet cake seasoned with ginger, and sometimes made in fanciful shapes. "Gingerbread that was full fine." Chaucer. Gingerbread tree , the doom palm; -- so called from the resemblance of its fruit to gingerbread. See Doom Palm. --