Emily Dickinson Lexicon

CAKE, n. [D. koek; G. kuchen; Dan. kage; Sw. kaka; Ch. כעך; Pers. ºکا, kaika; Syr. ܟܘܒܐ, koka. The sense seems to be, a mass or lump.]

1. A small mass of dough baked; or a composition of flour, butter, sugar, or other ingredients, baked in a small mass. The name is applied to various compositions, baked or cooked in different shapes.
2. Something in the form of a cake, rather flat than high, but roundish; as, a cake on a tree.
3. A mass of matter concreted; as, a cake of ice. Dryden. In New England, a piece of floating ice in a river or lake.
4. A hard swelling on the flesh; or rather a concretion without such swelling.