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A small, flat, sweetened cake of various kinds.

th soft candy from molasses or sugar. -- Corn bread, bread made of Indian meal. -- Corn cake, a kind of corn bread; johnny cake; hoecake. -- Corn cockle (Bot.), a weed (Agrostemma or Lychnis Githago), having bright flowers, common in grain fields. -- Corn flag (Bot.), a plant of the genus Gladiolus; -- called also…

A cake made of the meal of Indian corn, wrapped in a covering of husks or paper, and baked under the embers. [U.S.] Bartlett.

A preparation of popped corn, candied and pressed into small cakes. [U. S.]

A hard brittle cake or biscuit. Spenser.

ittle; friable; in a condition to break with a short, sharp fracture; as, crisp snow. The cakes at tea ate short and crisp. Goldsmith.

A kind of divination by means of the dough of the cakes offered in the ancient sacrifices, and the meal strewed over the victims.

A brittle cake or other crisp pastry.

A bun or cake marked with a cross, and intended to be eaten on Good Friday.

A kind of sweet cake cut in strips and curled or twisted, and fried crisp in boiling fat. [Also written kruller.]

A kind of large. thin muffin or cake, light and spongy, and cooked on a griddle or spider.

Short; brittle; as, crup cake. Todd.

A form of divorce, among the ancient Romans, in which a cake was used. See Confarreation.

Anything of the consistency of such paste. To have one's cake dough. See under Cake.

A small cake (usually sweetened) fried in a kettle of boiling lard.

quadruped; -- so called in contradistinction to man, who is a "speaking animal." -- Dumb cake, a cake made in silence by girls on St. Mark's eve, with certain mystic ceremonies, to discover their future husbands. Halliwell. -- Dumb cane (Bot.), a west Indian plant of the Arum family (Dieffenbachia seguina), which, wh…

A kind of frosted cake, containing flavored cream.

A cathartic substance obtained, in the form of yellowish or greenish cakes, as the dried residue of the juice of the wild or squirting cucumber (Ecballium agreste, formerly called Momordica Elaterium).

ing electricity, and repeating the charge indefinitely by induction, consisting of a flat cake of resin, shelllac, or ebonite, upon which is placed a plate of metal.

A small flat loaf or thick cake; also, a fagot. [Prov. Eng.] Halliwell.