Definition of: bake

(bāk) v. baked, bak·ing v.t.
1. To cook by dry and continuous heat, as food in an oven.
2. To harden or vitrify by heat, as bricks or pottery.
3. Obs. To cake; harden.
—v.i.
4. To bake bread, pastry, meat, or other food.
5. To become baked or hardened by heat, as soil.
—noun
1. A baking or the amount baked.
2. U.S. A social gathering at which certain foods are baked and served.
3. Scot. A cracker. [OE bacan]