From WordNet (r) 2.0 (August 2003) [wn]:
baked
adj 1: dried out by heat or excessive exposure to sunlight; "a vast
desert all adust"; "land lying baked in the heat";
"parched soil"; "the earth was scorched and bare";
"sunbaked salt flats" [syn: adust, parched,
scorched, sunbaked]
2: (of bread and pastries) cooked by dry heat (as in an oven);
"baked goods"
3: hardened by subjecting to intense heat; "baked bricks";
"burned bricks" [syn: burned, burnt]
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:
baked \baked\ (b[=a]kt), adj.
2. dried out by heat or excessive exposure to sunlight.
Syn: adust, parched, scorched, sunbaked.
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2. cooked with dry heat in an oven; -- of bread and pastries.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:
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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