Bake : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: Bake	by the DICT Development Group
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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
bake v cook and make edible by putting in a hot oven; "bake the potatoes" prepare with dry heat in an oven; "bake a cake" heat by a natural force; "The sun broils the valley in the summer" Synonym(s): broil, bake be very hot, due to hot weather or exposure to the sun; "The town was broiling in the sun"; "the tourists were baking in the heat" Synonym(s): bake, broil
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Bake \Bake\, v. i. 1. To do the work of baking something; as, she brews, washes, and bakes. --Shak. 2. To be baked; to become dry and hard in heat; as, the bread bakes; the ground bakes in the hot sun.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Bake \Bake\, n. The process, or result, of baking.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Bake \Bake\ (b[amac]k), v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Baked} (b[amac]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 Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]:
Bake The duty of preparing bread was usually, in ancient times, committed to the females or the slaves of the family (Gen. 18:6; Lev. 26:26; 1 Sam. 8:13); but at a later period we find a class of public bakers mentioned (Hos. 7:4, 6; Jer. 37:21). The bread was generally in the form of long or round cakes (Ex. 29:23; 1 Sam. 2:36), of a thinness that rendered them easily broken (Isa. 58:7; Matt. 14:19; 26:26; Acts 20:11). Common ovens were generally used; at other times a jar was half-filled with hot pebbles, and the dough was spread over them. Hence we read of "cakes baken on the coals" (1 Kings 19:6), and "baken in the oven" (Lev. 2:4). (See {BREAD}.)