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Oil cake; penock. [India]

is own spirit is as unsettled a piece as there is in all the world. Coleridge. a piece of cake, a task easily accomplished. a piece of work, a disparaging term for a person considered to have an excess of some undesirable quality; esp. difficult or eccentric person. Piece of ass vulgar term for a woman, considered as a…

A light, thin cake or muffin. [Prov. Eng.] Wright.

ame as Charles's Wain. Ice plow, a plow used for cutting ice on rivers, ponds, etc., into cakes suitable for storing. [U. S.] -- Mackerel plow. See under Mackerel. -- Plow alms, a penny formerly paid by every plowland to the church. Cowell. -- Plow beam, that part of the frame of a plow to which the draught is applie…

A flat oblong cake of pressed tobacco. [U. S.]

A kind of johnnycake. [Written also paune.] [Southern U. S.]

A kind of oil cake prepared from the cocoanut. See Oil cake, under Cake.

The quantity contained in a pot; a potful; as, a pot of ale. "Give her a pot and a cake." De Foe.

A kind of German biscuit or cake in the form of a twisted ring, salted on the outside.

A kind of delicate confectionery or cake, perhaps made from the pulp of fruit. [Obs.] Nares.

f a kind of goosewort (Chenopodium Quinoa), used in Chili and Peru for making porridge or cakes; also, food thus made.

Leavened; made with leaven, or yeast; -- used of bread, cake, etc., as distinguished from that made with cream of tartar, soda, etc. See Raise, v. t., 4. Raised beach. See under Beach, n.

ns of which things are to be taken or combined; a recipe; as, a receipt for making sponge cake. She had a receipt to make white hair black. Sir T. Browne.

A kind of light, hard cake or bread, as for stores Smart.

A tea cake slighty sweetened, and raised with yeast, baked in the form of biscuits or in a thin loaf, and eaten hot with butter.

flat piece of ground covered with saline efforescences. [Western U.S.] bartlett. -- Salt cake (Chem.), the white caked mass, consisting of sodium sulphate, which is obtained as the product of the first stage in the manufacture of soda, according to Leblanc's process. -- Salt fish. (a) Salted fish, especially cod, had…

A cake, thinner than a bannock, made of wheat or barley or oat meal. [Written variously, scon, skone, skon, etc.] [Scot.] Burns.

The husks and other refuse of rice mills, used to adulterate oil cake, or linseed cake.

A kind of cake made of fine flour; a cracknel. [Obs.] Not common bread, but vastel bread, or simnels. Fuller.

A flat batter cake cooked on a griddle; a flapjack; a griddlecake. [Local, U.S.]