bake

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

1. v. To cook (food) with dry heat, especially in an oven.
2. v. To harden or dry (something) by subjecting to heat in or as if in an oven: bake bricks.
3. v. To cook food with dry heat.
4. v. To become hardened or dry by or as if by having been subjected to the heat of an oven.
5. n. The act or process of baking.
6. n. An amount baked.
7. n. A social gathering at which food is cooked by baking and then served.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

1. To cook by dry heat in a closed place, such as an oven: primarily used of this manner of cooking bread, but afterward applied to potatoes, apples, etc., and also flesh and fish: to be distinguished from roast (which see).
2. To harden by heat, either in an oven, kiln, or furnace, or by the sun's heat: as, to bake bricks or pottery.
3. 3. To harden by cold.
4. To do the work of baking.
5. To undergo the process of baking.
6. n. A baking.

Wiktionary

1. v. To cook (something) in an oven, but not in fat. Compare roast.
2. v. To dry by heat.
3. v. (Of a person, the weather, or an object:) To be hot.
4. v. To become baked.
5. v. To smoke marijuana.
6. n. Any of various baked dishes resembling casserole.
7. n. The act of cooking food by baking.

GNU Webster's 1913

1. v. To prepare, as food, by cooking in a dry heat, either in an oven or under coals, or on heated stone or metal.
2. v. To dry or harden (anything) by subjecting to heat, .
3. v. To harden by cold.
4. v. To do the work of baking something.
5. v. To be baked; to become dry and hard in heat.
6. n. The process, or result, of baking.

WordNet 3.0

1. v. be very hot, due to hot weather or exposure to the sun
2. v. heat by a natural force
3. v. prepare with dry heat in an oven
4. v. cook and make edible by putting in a hot oven