Part 1541

<hw>Cake</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[OE. <ets>cake</ets>, <ets>kaak</ets>; akin to Dan. <ets>kage</ets>, Sw. & Icel. <ets>kaka</ets>, D. <ets>koek</ets>, G.<ets>kuchem</ets>, OHG. <ets>chuocho</ets>.]</ety>

<p><b>1.</b> <def>A small mass of dough baked; especially, a thin loaf from unleavened dough; <as>as, an oatmeal <ex>cake</ex>; johnny<ex>cake</ex>.</as></def>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>A sweetened composition of flour and other ingredients, leavened or unleavened, baked in a loaf or mass of any size or shape.</def>

<p><b>3.</b> <def>A thin wafer-shaped mass of fried batter; a griddlecake or pancake; as buckwheat <i>cakes</i>.</def>

<p><b>4.</b> <def>A mass of matter concreted, congealed, or molded into a solid mass of any form, esp. into a form rather flat than high; <as>as, a <ex>cake</ex> of soap; an ague <ex>cake</ex>.</as></def>

<blockquote><b>Cakes</b> of rusting ice come rolling down the flood. <i>Dryden.</i></blockquote>

<cs><col>Cake urchin</col> <fld>(Zo\'94l)</fld>, <cd>any species of flat sea urchins belonging to the <spn>Clypeastroidea</spn></cd>. -- <col>Oil cake</col> <cd>the refuse of flax seed, cotton seed, or other vegetable substance from which oil has been expressed, compacted into a solid mass, and used as food for cattle, for manure, or for other purposes.</cd> -- <col>To have one's cake dough</col>, <cd>to fail or be disappointed in what one has undertaken or expected.</cd></cs>

<i>Shak.</i>

<h1>Cake</h1> <Xpage=202>

<hw>Cake</hw>, <tt>v. i.</tt> <def>To form into a cake, or mass.</def>

<h1>Cake</h1> <Xpage=202>

<hw>Cake</hw>, <tt>v. i.</tt> <wordforms>[<tt>imp. & p. p.</tt> <er>Caked</er> <tt>(?)</tt>; <tt>p. pr. & vb. n.</tt> <er>Caking</er>.]</wordforms> <def>To concrete or consolidate into a hard mass, as dough in an oven; to coagulate.</def>

<blockquote>Clotted blood that <b>caked</b> within. <i>Addison.</i></blockquote>

<h1>Cake</h1> <Xpage=202>

<hw>Cake</hw>, <tt>v. i.</tt> <def>To cackle as a goose.</def> <mark>[Prov. Eng.]</mark>

<h1>Caking coal</h1> <Xpage=202>

<hw>Cak"ing coal`</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>. <def>See <er>Coal</er>.</def>

<h1>Cal</h1> <Xpage=202>

<hw>Cal</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <fld>(Cornish Mines)</fld> <def>Wolfram, an ore of tungsten.</def>

<i>Simmonds.</i>

<h1>Calabar</h1> <Xpage=202>

<hw>Cal"a*bar</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>A district on the west coast of Africa.</def>

<cs><col>Calabar bean</col>, <cd>The of a climbing legumious plant (<spn>Physostigma venenosum</spn>), a native of tropical Africa. It is highly poisonous. It is used to produce contraction of the pupil of the eye; also in tetanus, neuralgia, and rheumatic diseases; -- called also <altname>ordeal bean</altname>, being used by the negroes in trials for witchcraft.</cd></cs>

<h1>Calabarine</h1> <Xpage=202>

<hw>Cal"a*bar*ine</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <fld>(Chem.)</fld> <def>An alkaloid resembing physostigmine and occurring with it in the calabar bean.</def>

<h1>Calabash</h1> <Xpage=202>

<hw>Cal"a*bash</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[Sp. <ets>calabaza</ets>, or Pg. <ets>calaba<?/a</ets>, <ets>caba<?/a</ets> (cf. F. <ets>Calebasse</ets>), lit., a dry gourd, fr. Ar. <ets>qar'</ets>, fem., a kind of gourd + <ets>aibas</ets> dry.]</ety> <p><b>1.</b> <def>The common gourd (plant or fruit).</def>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>The fruit of the calabash tree.</def>