Cake

kāk, n. a piece of dough that is baked: a small loaf of fine bread: any flattened ma baked, as pan - cake , ., or as soap, wax, tobacco, .: a thin hard-baked kind of oaten-bread—whence Scotland is styled the 'Land of Cakes:' fancy bread, sweetened: a composition of bread with butter, sugar, spices, currants, raisins, ., baked into any form— plum-cake , tea-cake , wedding-cake .— v.t. to form into a cake or hard ma .— v.i. to become baked or hardened.— adj. Cak′y .— Cakes and ale , a phrase covering vaguely all the good things of life.— To take the cake ( slang ), to carry off the honours, rank first. [Scand. kaka ; cog. with Ger. kuche , Dut. koek .]