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.
To dry or harden (anything) by subjecting to heat, as, to bake bricks; the sun bakes the ground.
To harden by cold. The earth . . . is baked with frost. Shak. They bake their sides upon the cold, hard stone. Spenser.
To do the work of baking something; as, she brews, washes, and bakes. Shak.
To be baked; to become dry and hard in heat; as, the bread bakes; the ground bakes in the hot sun.
The process, or result, of baking.
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