[1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

bake \bake\, v. i.
   1. to do the work of baking something; as, she brews, washes,
      and bakes. --shak.
      1913 webster

   2. to be baked; to become dry and hard in heat; as, the bread
      bakes; the ground bakes in the hot sun.
      1913 webster

[2] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

bake \bake\, n.
   the process, or result, of baking.
   1913 webster

[3] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

bake \bake\ b=ak, v. t. imp.  p. p. baked b=akt; p.
   pr.  vb. n. baking. as. bacan; akin to d. bakken, ohg.
   bacchan, g. backen, icel.  sw. baka, dan. bage, gr. fw`gein
   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.
      1913 webster

   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.
         1913 webster

   2. to dry or harden anything by subjecting to heat, as, to
      bake bricks; the sun bakes the ground.
      1913 webster

   3. to harden by cold.
      1913 webster

            the earth . . . is baked with frost.  --shak.
      1913 webster

            they bake their sides upon the cold, hard stone.
                                                  --spenser.
      1913 webster
see also:
baked baking 

[4] : WordNet (r) 2.0

bake
     v 1: cook and make edible by putting in a hot oven; "bake the
          potatoes"
     2: prepare with dry heat in an oven; "bake a cake"
     3: heat by a natural force; "the sun broils the valley in the
        summer" syn: broil
see also:
broil 

[5] : Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0

104 moby thesaurus words for "bake":
   air-dry, anhydrate, barbecue, baste, be in heat, blanch, blaze,
   bloom, blot, boil, braise, brew, broil, brown, brush, burn, choke,
   coddle, combust, cook, cure, curry, dehumidify, dehydrate,
   desiccate, devil, do, do to perfection, drain, dry, evaporate,
   exsiccate, fire, flame, flame up, flare, flare up, flicker, flush,
   fricassee, frizz, frizzle, fry, gasp, glaze, glow, griddle, grill,
   heat, incandesce, insolate, kiln, melt, mold, mummify, oven-bake,
   pan, pan-broil, pant, parboil, parch, poach, pot, prepare,
   prepare food, radiate heat, roast, rub, saute, scald, scallop,
   scorch, sear, seethe, shape, shimmer with heat, shirr, shrivel,
   simmer, smoke, smolder, smother, soak up, spark, sponge, steam,
   stew, stifle, stir-fry, suffocate, sun, sun-dry, swab, sweat,
   swelter, throw, toast, torrefy, towel, turn a pot, weazen, wipe,
   wither, wizen

[6] : Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary

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.
   
see also:
bread 

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