v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Baked 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 ]

☞ 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 ]

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 ]

n. The process, or result, of baking. [ 1913 Webster ]

adj. 2. dried out by heat or excessive exposure to sunlight.
Syn. -- adust, parched, scorched, sunbaked. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

2. cooked with dry heat in an oven; -- of bread and pastries. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

{ } n. A pie; baked food. [ Obs. ] Gen. xl. 17. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ AS. bæchūs. See Bake, v. t., and House. ] A house for baking; a bakery. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. a thermosetting plastic used in electric insulators and for making plastic ware and telephone receivers etc. [ trademark ] [ WordNet 1.5 ]

p. p. of Bake. [ Obs. or Archaic ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ AS. bæcere. See Bake, v. t. ] 1. One whose business it is to bake bread, biscuit, etc. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A portable oven in which baking is done. [ U.S. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

A baker's dozen, thirteen. --
Baker foot, a distorted foot. [ Obs. ] Jer. Taylor. --
Baker's itch, a rash on the back of the hand, caused by the irritating properties of yeast. --
Baker's salt, the subcarbonate of ammonia, sometimes used instead of soda, in making bread. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Having legs that bend inward at the knees. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. The trade of a baker. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A place for baking bread; a bakehouse. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The backing or steaming of clams on heated stones, between layers of seaweed; hence, a picnic party, gathered on such an occasion. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Imperfectly baked; hence, not brought to perfection; unfinished; also, of weak or dull understanding. [ Colloq. ] Halliwell. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. 1. Insufficiently or poorly planned or thought out; impractical or unrealistic; as, a half-baked proposal; half-baked ideas; -- of plans, theories, proposals, etc. [ PJC ]

2. Insufficiently cooked; -- of food. [ PJC ]

n. A sweetmeat of boiled brown sugar or molasses made with almonds, and flavored with orange or lemon juice, etc. Thackeray. [ 1913 Webster ]

adj. baked until hard. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. Probably, the baked berry of the hawthorn tree, that is, coarse fare. See 1st Haw, 2. [ Obs. ] Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. to bake in an oven. [ WordNet 1.5 ]