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

baking \bak"ing\, n.
   1. the act or process of cooking in an oven, or of drying and
      hardening by heat or cold.
      1913 webster

   2. the quantity baked at once; a batch; as, a baking of
      bread.
      1913 webster

   baking powder, a substitute for yeast, usually consisting
      of an acid, a carbonate, and a little farinaceous matter.
      1913 webster
see also:
baking powder 

[2] : 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 

[3] : WordNet (r) 2.0

baking
     adj : as hot as if in an oven syn: baking hot
     n 1: making bread or cake or pastry etc.
     2: cooking by dry heat in an oven
see also:
baking hot 

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

60 moby thesaurus words for "baking":
   ardent, barbecuing, basting, blistering, boiling, braising,
   brewing, broil, broiling, burning, burning hot, canicular,
   catering, cookery, cooking, cuisine, culinary science,
   domestic science, ebullient, feverish, fiery, flushed, frying,
   grilling, heated, home economics, hot, hot as fire, hot as hell,
   like a furnace, like an oven, nutrition, overheated, overwarm,
   pan-broiling, parching, piping hot, poaching, red-hot, roasting,
   sauteing, scalding, scorching, searing, seething, shirring,
   simmering, sizzling, sizzling hot, smoking hot, steeping, stewing,
   sudorific, sweating, sweaty, sweltering, sweltry, toasting, torrid,
   white-hot

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