-caked - The Dictionary

cake (k?k)n.1. A sweet baked food made of flour, liquid, eggs, and other ingredients, such as raising agents and flavorings.2. A flat rounded mass of dough or batter, such as a pancake, that is baked or fried.3. A flat rounded mass of hashed or chopped food that is baked or fried; a patty.4. A shaped or molded piece, as of soap or ice.5. A layer or deposit of compacted matter: a cake of grime in the oven.v. caked, cak·ing, cakes v.tr. To cover or fill with a thick layer, as of compacted matter: a miner whose face was caked with soot.v.intr. To become formed into a compact or crusty mass: As temperatures dropped, the wet snow caked.[Middle English, from Old Norse kaka.]American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright © 2016 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.