ppl. a. arch. 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 Now superseded by BAKED in literary Eng., but still in north.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. Cour 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.
