Bake, 1) trans., a) to prepare for food by heating in an oven: “and then to be --d with no date in the pie,” Troil. I, 2, 280. “in that paste let their vile heads be --d,” Tit. V, 2, 201. V, 3, 60. “the --d meats,” Rom. IV, 4, 5. Hml. I, 2, 180.
b) to dry and harden, to glue and paste together: “when the earth is --d with frost,” Tp. I, 2, 256. “if melancholy had --d thy blood,” John III, 3, 43. “--s the elf-locks in foul sluttish hairs,” Rom. I, 4, 90. “--d and impasted with the parching streets,” Hml. II, 2, 481.
2) intr., a) to make bread in an oven: “I wash, wring, brew, b.” Wiv. I, 4, 101. “the heating of the oven, and the --ing,” Troil. I, 1, 24.
b) to be hardened in heat: “fillet of a fenny snake, in the cauldron boil and b.” Mcb. IV, 1, 13.
c) to be produced by hardening, like the crust of a paste: “a most instant tetter --d about, with vile and loathsome crust, all my smooth body,” Hml. I, 5, 71 (Qq and M. Edd. barked).