<p><strong>Noun</strong></p><ul><li>a sweet, baked, breadlike food, made with or without shortening, and usually containing flour, sugar, baking powder or soda, eggs, and liquid flavoring.</li><li>a flat, thin mass of bread, especially unleavened bread.</li><li>pancake; griddlecake.</li><li>a shaped or molded mass of other food: a fish cake.</li><li>a shaped or compressed mass: a cake of soap; a cake of ice.</li><li>Animal Husbandry: a compacted block of soybeans, cottonseeds, or linseeds from which the oil has been pressed, usually used as a feed or feed supplement for cattle.</li></ul><p><strong>Verb</strong></p><ul><li>(used with object) caked, cak·ing: to form into a crust or compact mass.</li><li>(used without object) caked, cak·ing: to become formed into a crust or compact mass.</li></ul><p>Synonyms: congeal, dry, solidify, harden.</p>