cake

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

1. n. A sweet baked food made of flour, liquid, eggs, and other ingredients, such as raising agents and flavorings.
2. n. A flat rounded mass of dough or batter, such as a pancake that is baked or fried.
3. n. A flat rounded mass of hashed or chopped food that is baked or fried; a patty.
4. n. A shaped or molded piece, as of soap or ice.
5. n. A layer or deposit of compacted matter: a cake of grime in the oven.
6. v. To cover or fill with a thick layer, as of compacted matter: a miner whose face was caked with soot.
7. v. To become formed into a compact or crusty mass: As temperatures dropped, the wet snow caked.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

1. n. A flat or comparatively thin mass of baked dough; a thin loaf of bread.
2. n. Specifically A light composition of flour, sugar, butter, and generally other ingredients, as eggs, flavoring substances, fruit, etc., baked in any form; distinctively, a flat or thin portion of dough so prepared and separately baked.
3. n. In Scotland, specifically, an oatmeal cake, rolled thin and baked hard on a griddle.
4. n. A small portion of batter fried on a griddle; a pancake or griddle-cake: as, buckwheat cakes.
5. n. Oil-cake used for feeding cattle or as a fertilizer.
6. n. Something made or concreted in the distinctive form of cake; a mass of solid matter relatively thin and extended: as, a cake of soap.
7. To form into a cake or compact mass.
8. To concrete or become formed into a hard mass.
9. To cackle, as geese.
10. n. A stupid fellow; a noodle.
11. n. A good thing; a dainty or delicacy, as in the phrase ‘cakes and ale’.
12. n. A rich cake glazed and filled with nuts.

Wiktionary

1. v. UK, dialect, obsolete, intransitive To cackle like a goose.
2. n. A rich, sweet dessert food, typically made of flour, sugar, and eggs and baked in an oven, and often covered in icing.
3. n. A block of any of various dense materials.
4. n. slang A trivially easy task or responsibility; from a piece of cake.
5. n. slang Money.
6. v. transitive Coat (something) with a crust of solid material.

GNU Webster's 1913

1. n. A small mass of dough baked; especially, a thin loaf from unleavened dough.
2. n. A sweetened composition of flour and other ingredients, leavened or unleavened, baked in a loaf or mass of any size or shape.
3. n. A thin wafer-shaped mass of fried batter; a griddlecake or pancake; as buckwheat cakes.
4. n. A mass of matter concreted, congealed, or molded into a solid mass of any form, esp. into a form rather flat than high.
5. v. To form into a cake, or mass.
6. v. To concrete or consolidate into a hard mass, as dough in an oven; to coagulate.
7. v. Prov. Eng. To cackle as a goose.

WordNet 3.0

1. n. a block of solid substance (such as soap or wax)
2. n. baked goods made from or based on a mixture of flour, sugar, eggs, and fat
3. n. small flat mass of chopped food
4. v. form a coat over