1. [n]  a block of solid substance (such as soap or wax); "a bar of chocolate"
2. [n]  made from or based on a mixture of flour and sugar and eggs
3. [n]  small flat mass of chopped food
4. [v]  form a coat over; "Dirt had coated her face"

1. \Cake\ (k[=a]k), n. [OE. cake, kaak; akin to Dan. kage, Sw.
   & Icel. kaka, D. koek, G. kuchen, OHG. chuocho.]
   1. A small mass of dough baked; especially, a thin loaf from
      unleavened dough; as, an oatmeal cake; johnnycake.
   
   2. A sweetened composition of flour and other ingredients,
      leavened or unleavened, baked in a loaf or mass of any
      size or shape.
   
   3. A thin wafer-shaped mass of fried batter; a griddlecake or
      pancake; as buckwheat cakes.
   
   4. A mass of matter concreted, congealed, or molded into a
      solid mass of any form, esp. into a form rather flat than
      high; as, a cake of soap; an ague cake.
   
            Cakes of rusting ice come rolling down the flood.
                                                  --Dryden.
   
   {Cake urchin} (Zo["o]l), any species of flat sea urchins
      belonging to the {Clypeastroidea}.
   
   {Oil cake} the refuse of flax seed, cotton seed, or other
      vegetable substance from which oil has been expressed,
      compacted into a solid mass, and used as food for cattle,
      for manure, or for other purposes.
   
   {To have one's cake dough}, to fail or be disappointed in
      what one has undertaken or expected. --Shak.
   
   

2. \Cake\, v. i.
   To form into a cake, or mass.
   
   

3. \Cake\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Caked}; p. pr. & vb. n.
   {Caking}.]
   To concrete or consolidate into a hard mass, as dough in an
   oven; to coagulate.
   
         Clotted blood that caked within.         --Addison.
   
   

4. \Cake\, v. i.
   To cackle as a goose. [Prov. Eng.]
   
   

Cakes made of wheat or barley were offered in the temple. They were salted, but unleavened (Ex. 29:2; Lev. 2:4). In idolatrous worship thin cakes or wafers were offered "to the queen of heaven" (Jer. 7:18; 44:19).

Pancakes are described in 2 Sam. 13:8, 9. Cakes mingled with oil and baked in the oven are mentioned in Lev. 2:4, and "wafers unleavened anointed with oil," in Ex. 29:2; Lev. 8:26; 1 Chr. 23:29. "Cracknels," a kind of crisp cakes, were among the things Jeroboam directed his wife to take with her when she went to consult Ahijah the prophet at Shiloh (1 Kings 14:3). Such hard cakes were carried by the Gibeonites when they came to Joshua (9:5, 12). They described their bread as "mouldy;" but the Hebrew word _nikuddim_, here used, ought rather to be rendered "hard as biscuit." It is rendered "cracknels" in 1 Kings 14:3. The ordinary bread, when kept for a few days, became dry and excessively hard. The Gibeonites pointed to this hardness of their bread as an evidence that they had come a long journey.

We read also of honey-cakes (Ex. 16:31), "cakes of figs" (1 Sam. 25:18), "cake" as denoting a whole piece of bread (1 Kings 17:12), and "a [round] cake of barley bread" (Judg. 7:13). In Lev. 2 is a list of the different kinds of bread and cakes which were fit for offerings.