Baking

b.lk'ing, n. the proce bv which bread is baked the quantity baked at one time. Balance, bal'ans, n an instiumeut for weighing, usually formed of tivo dishes or scales hanging from a beam suppoited in the middle: act of weighing two things equality or just proportion of weight or power, as the balance offmver; the sum required to make the two sides of ail account equal, hence the surplus, or the sum due — on an account v to weigh in a balance to counterpoise to compare to settle, as an account.— v.t. to have equal weight or power, Sec. to hesitate or fluctuate. [Fr. —L. bilanx having two scales—bis, double, lanx, lancis, a dish or scale.]