Bake

1. n. The process, or result, of baking.
2. v. t. 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.
3. v. t. To dry or harden (anything) by subjecting to heat, as, to bake bricks; the sun bakes the ground.
4. v. t. To harden by cold.
5. v. i. To do the work of baking something; as, she brews, washes, and bakes.
6. v. i. To be baked; to become dry and hard in heat; as, the bread bakes; the ground bakes in the hot sun.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.