The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Bake \Bake\, v. i.
   1. To do the work of baking something; as, she brews, washes,
      and bakes. --Shak.
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   2. To be baked; to become dry and hard in heat; as, the bread
      bakes; the ground bakes in the hot sun.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Bake \Bake\, n.
   The process, or result, of baking.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Bake \Bake\ (b[=a]k), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Baked (b[=a]kt); p.
   pr. & vb. n. Baking.] [AS. bacan; akin to D. bakken, OHG.
   bacchan, G. backen, Icel. & Sw. baka, Dan. bage, Gr. fw`gein
   to roast.]
   1. To prepare, as food, by cooking in a dry heat, either in
      an oven or under coals, or on heated stone or metal; as,
      to bake bread, meat, apples.
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   Note: Baking is the term usually applied to that method of
         cooking which exhausts the moisture in food more than
         roasting or broiling; but the distinction of meaning
         between roasting and baking is not always observed.
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   2. To dry or harden (anything) by subjecting to heat, as, to
      bake bricks; the sun bakes the ground.
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   3. To harden by cold.
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            The earth . . . is baked with frost.  --Shak.
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            They bake their sides upon the cold, hard stone.
                                                  --Spenser.
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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

bake
    v 1: cook and make edible by putting in a hot oven; "bake the
         potatoes"
    2: prepare with dry heat in an oven; "bake a cake"
    3: heat by a natural force; "The sun broils the valley in the
       summer" [syn: broil, bake]
    4: be very hot, due to hot weather or exposure to the sun; "The
       town was broiling in the sun"; "the tourists were baking in
       the heat" [syn: bake, broil]