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small mass of dough baked; especially, a thin loaf from unleavened dough; as, an oatmeal cake; johnnycake.

Rich or highly ornamented cake, to be distributed to the guests at a wedding, or sent to friends after the wedding.

Oatmeal cake or bread clapped or beaten till it is thin. [Obs.] Halliwell.

A kind of cake filled with custard made of cream, eggs, etc.

A rich glazed cake, with almonds, pistachios, filberts, or other nuts; also, a rich currant cake with almonds on the top.

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

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.]

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

The incorporated materials for gunpowder, in the form of a dense mass or cake, ready to be subjected to the process of granulation.

Indian corn parched, and beaten to powder, -- used for food by the Northern American Indians.

A cake made of oatmeal.

A thin cake of batter fried in a pan or on a griddle; a griddlecake; a flapjack. "A pancake for Shrove Tuesday." Shak.

A kind of rich, sweet cake; -- so called from the ingredients being used by pounds, or in equal quantities.

A cake of compressed substance, as: in gunpowder manufacture, the cake resulting from compressing the meal powder; in the treatment of coal tar, the pressed product at various stages of the process; or, in beet-sugar manufacture, the vegetable residue after the sugar juice has been expressed.

A kind of rich sweet cake made for routs, or evening parties.

A sweet cake or cooky containing aromatic seeds, as caraway. Tusser.

An unsweetened breakfast cake shortened with butter or lard, rolled thin, and baked.

See Tough-pitch (b).

An ornamented cake distributed among friends or visitors on the festival of Twelfth-night.

A cake of wax stamped with such a figure. It is made from the remains of the paschal candles and blessed by the Pope.