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king in a dry heat, either in an oven or under coals, or on heated stone or metal; as, to bake bread, meat, apples.

A house for baking; a bakery.

A pie; baked food. [Obs.] Gen. xl. 17. Shak.

p. p. of Bake. [Obs. or. Archaic]

One whose business it is to bake bread, biscuit, etc.

Having legs that bend inward at the knees.

The trade of a baker. [R.]

The backing or steaming of clams on heated stones, between layers of seaweed; hence, a picnic party, gathered on such an occasion.

Imperfectly baked; hence, not brought to perfection; unfinished; also, of weak or dull understanding. [Colloq.] Halliwell.

A sweetmeat of boiled brown sugar or molasses made with almonds, and flavored with orange or lemon juice, etc. Thackeray.

Probably, the baked berry of the hawthorn tree, that is, coarse fare. See 1st Haw, 2. [Obs.] Chaucer.

Interest of money; increase; overplus (as the thirteenth in the baker's dozen). [Obs.] And with advantage means to pay thy love. Shak. Advantage ground, vantage ground. [R.] Clarendon. -- To have the advantage of (any one), to have a personal knowledge of one who does not have a reciprocal knowledge. "You have the adv…

in the rear. "A gale of wind right astern." De Foe. "Left this strait astern." Drake. To bake astern, to go stern foremost. -- To be astern of the reckoning, to be behind the position given by the reckoning. -- To drop astern, to fall or be left behind. -- To go astern, to go backward, as from the action of current…

A female baker. [Obs.]

The quantity baked at once; a batch; as, a baking of bread. Baking powder, a substitute for yeast, usually consisting of an acid, a carbonate, and a little farinaceous matter.

A baker. [Obs.] Chaucer.

of cake or bread, in shape flat and roundish, commonly made of oatmeal or barley meal and baked on an iron plate, or griddle; -- used in Scotland and the northern counties of England. Jamieson. Bannock fluke, the turbot. [Scot.]

An apron. [Obs.] "Bakers in their linen bases." Marston.

The quantity of bread baked at one time.

A baker; originally, a female baker. [Old Eng. & Scotch]