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To subject to intense heat; to bake; to burn in a kiln; as, to fire pottery.

omment, He would unriddle in a moment. Hudibras. Explaining the text in short glosses. T. Baker.

and sulphate of iron. -- Green ware, articles of pottery molded and shaped, but not yet baked. -- Green woodpecker (Zoöl.), a common European woodpecker (Picus viridis); -- called also yaffle.

A cake baked or fried on a griddle, esp. a thin batter cake, as of buckwheat or common flour.

is this war now ended were. Spenser. High sauces and spices are fetched from the Indies. Baker.

A cake of Indian meal, water, and salt, baked before the fire or in the ashes; -- so called because often cooked on a hoe. [Southern U.S.]

To knead; to make into paste; to concrete. "Blood . . . baked and impasted." Shak.

A constant irritating desire. An itch of being thought a divine king. Dryden. Baker's itch. See under Baker. -- Barber's itch, sycosis. -- Bricklayer's itch, an eczema of the hands attended with much itching, occurring among bricklayers. -- Grocer's itch, an itching eruption, being a variety of eczema, produced by t…

A baked sheep's head. [Slang, Eng.] Dickens.

ind of bread made of the meal of maize (Indian corn), mixed with water or milk, etc., and baked. [U.S.] J. Barlow.

A small ball of clay, baked hard and oiled, used as a marble by boys in playing. [Prov. Eng. & U. S.] Halliwell. Bartlett.

A combination of meat with vegetables, bread, etc., usually stewed, sometimes baked; an olio.

To subdue the appetites of by poor and scanty diet; to mortify. Baker.

An African antelope (Hippotragus Bakeri). Its face is striped with black and white.

to esteem, suppose, or represent. He is not that goose and ass that Valla would make him. Baker.

le balsam for wounds, having a peculiar smell which prevents the attacks of flies. Sir S. Baker.

-- Meal worm (Zoöl.), the larva of a beetle (Tenebrio molitor) which infests granaries, bakehouses, etc., and is very injurious to flour and meal.

ak. What noise have we had about transplantation of diseases and transfusion of blood! T. Baker. Soerates lived in Athens during the great plague which has made so much noise in all ages. Spectator.

n; collateral. His natural affection in a direct line was strong, in an oblique but weak. Baker. Oblique angle, Oblique ascension, etc. See under Angle,Ascension, etc. -- Oblique arch (Arch.), an arch whose jambs are not at right angles with the face, and whose intrados is in consequence askew. -- Oblique bridge, a s…

several hundred years after Justinian's time, did obtain in the western parts of Europe. Baker.