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4. A mass of matter concreted, congealed,
or molded into a solid mass of any form, esp. into a form rather
flat than high; as, a cake of soap; an ague
cake.

Cakes of rusting ice come rolling down the
flood.

Dryden.

Cake urchin (Zoöl), any
species of flat sea urchins belonging to the
Clypeastroidea. -- Oil cake 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. -- To have one's cake dough,
to fail or be disappointed in what one has undertaken or
expected. Shak.

Cake, v. i. To form into a
cake, or mass.

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

Clotted blood that caked within.

Addison.

Cake, v.


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