CAKE

I. noun Etymology: Middle English, from Old Norse kaka; akin to Old High German kuocho ~ Date: 13th century 1. a breadlike food made from a dough or batter that is usually fried or baked in small flat shapes and is often unleavened, a sweet baked food made from a dough or thick batter usually containing flour and sugar and often shortening, eggs, and a raising agent (as baking powder), a flattened usually round mass of food that is baked or fried , 2. a block of compacted or congealed matter , a hard or brittle layer or deposit, something easily done , ~y adjective II. verb (~d; caking) Date: 1607 transitive verb encrust , to fill (a space) with a packed mass, intransitive verb to form or harden into a mass