a small mass of dough baked; especially, a thin loaf from unleavened dough; as, an oatmeal cake; johnnycake.-a sweetened composition of flour and other ingredients, leavened or unleavened, baked in a loaf or mass of any size or shape.-a thin wafer-shaped mass of fried batter; a griddlecake or pancake; as buckwheat cakes.-a mass of matter concreted, congealed, or molded into a solid mass of any form, esp. into a form rather flat than high; as, a cake of soap; an ague cake.-to form into a cake, or mass.-to concrete or consolidate into a hard mass, as dough in an oven; to coagulate.-to cackle as a goose.