ppl. a. [pa. pple. of BAKE: see -ED; for earlier forms see BAKEN.]
1. Cooked by dry heat.
1611. Bible, 1 Chron. xxiii. 29. That which is baked in the panne.
1620. Venner, Via Recta, vii. 111. Baked Peares are much wholesomer then raw.
1875. Chamb. Jrnl., No. 133. 66/1. The night is cold, and the baked-potato men are doing a good trade.
2. Dried or fired in a (brick) kiln.
1545. Joye, Exp. Daniel ii. 31. Golde, syluer, latine, yerne and bakt potte erth.
1609. Bible (Douay), Isa. xvi. 7. Walles of baqued bricke.
1858. Birch, Anc. Pottery, Introd. 5. Remains of baked earthenware.
1869. Rawlinson, Five Mon., I. v. The sun-dried bricks have even more variety of size than the baked ones.
3. Hardened or caked by heat (or otherwise).
1615. Latham, Falconry (1633), 64. Their grease … will lie baked blew to their sides.
1858. W. Ellis, Vis. Madagascar, viii. 206. The soil … is hard-baked reddish earth.
† 4. Baked meat, pastry: see BAKE-MEAT. Obs.
