▪ I. baken, ppl. a. arch.
(ˈbeɪk(ə)n)
Earlier forms, bake, ybake, etc.: see under bake v.
[strong pa. pple. of bake v.: see -en. Now superseded by baked in literary Eng., but still in north. dial.]
1. Baked, as bread or meat.
| c 1325 Cœur de L. 3613 Ne eete off flesch, baken ne brede. 1340 Ayenb. 112 Bread tuies ybake huermide he astoreþ his ssip. 1382 Wyclif Lev. ii. 4 He shal offre baake sacrifice. c 1420 Liber Cocorum (1862) 54 Bakun turbut and sawmon ibake. 1562 J. Heywood Prov. & Epigr. (1867) 37 Boylde beefe and bake mutton. 1611 Bible 1 Kings xix. 6 A cake baken on the coales. Mod. Sc. New-baken bread. |
2. Baked in a kiln; hardened, dried.
| c 1385 Chaucer L.G.W. 709 Wallis..of harde tilis wel I⁓bake. 1513 Douglas æneis xi. xi. 47 The schaft was sad and sound and weill ybaik. 1544 Phaër Regim. (1560) I iij b, Baken or dryed as clay is in the fourneis. 1549 Compl. Scot. vi. 46 Ane of the tabilis vas of baikyn stane, and the tothir..of onbaykyn stane. |
† 3. baken meat, pastry: see bake-meat. Obs.
▪ II. baken
obs. form of bacon n.