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First published 1937 (DOST Vol. I).
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Bake, v. Also: bak, baik, beak, beack; p.t. buke, beuke, buik; p.p. bakyn, -in, -en, bakne, baikin, -en, baickine, beackine, backin (poet. ybaik). [ME. bake, baken, OE. bacan, ON. baka.]

1. tr. To bake (bread or meat).(a) 14.. Acts I. 333/2 (thai bak nocht ilk kynd of bred as the law requeris). 1490 Irland Mir. 272 b (at the furnace remane heire to baik the breid). 1503 Edinb. B. Rec. I. 98 (gif thai personis will baik ony caikis). 1531 Bell. Boece I. p. l. (the peple of Island bray dry fische and baikis thaim at the fire). 1593 St. A. Baxter Bks. 51 (to baik meat, bread, or ony vthir affaris). 1602 Elgin Rec. II. 106 (hawing his owin gangand bakand meat). 1641 Glasgow B. Rec. I. 428 (that the baxters baik no bunes). 1643 St. A. Baxter Bks. 40 (that nonn sall beack any of the forsaids kynds of breids). 1665 Lauder Journal 80 (like a babret on which we bak the cakes).(b) 1513 Doug. i. iv. 40 (the cornys thai buke [R. beuke, Sm. buik] at the fyre). 1596 Crim. Trials I. 399 (quha buik the meill in bannokis). 1597 Ib. II. 26 (scho buke a bannok thairof).(c) 14.. Acts I. 312/2 (the halfpenny lafe wele bakyn). a1500 Rauf C. 209 (byrdis bakin in breid). 1490 Irland Mir. I. 46/1 (this hevinly breid was bakin on the croce). 1518 Edinb. B. Rec. I. 178 (the gray breid baiken within this burgh). 1558-66 Knox I. 159 (a peice of braid backin upone the aschis). 1603 Rec. Old Aberd. I. 32 (ten kaikis to be bakin in the pect meill). 1619 Dundee B. Laws 348 (ilk beackine [that] sall be beackine therein). 1656 Glasgow B. Rec. II. 352 (certan breid baickine be the baxteris).

2. absol. To perform the act of baking.14.. Acts I. 336/2 (thai vse gilde merchandise bathe bakand and brewand). c1500-c1512 Dunb. v. 35 (for to brew and baik). a1568 Pedder C. 49 (he sittis at hame quhen that thay baik). a1540 Freiris Berw. 212 (it held a boll of meil quhen that we buke). 1699 Foulis Acc. Bk. 246 (for the barm to baik tomorrow).

3. tr. To harden by exposure to heat.1513 Doug. xi. xi. 47 (the schaft was sad and sound and weill ybaik).