baked

from WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006)

baked
    adj 1: dried out by heat or excessive exposure to sunlight; "a
           vast desert all adust"; "land lying baked in the heat";
           "parched soil"; "the earth was scorched and bare";
           "sunbaked salt flats" [syn: {adust}, {baked}, {parched},
           {scorched}, {sunbaked}]
    2: (bread and pastries) cooked by dry heat (as in an oven);
       "baked goods"

from The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

baked \baked\ (b[=a]kt), adj.
   2. dried out by heat or excessive exposure to sunlight.

   Syn: adust, parched, scorched, sunbaked.
        [WordNet 1.5]

   2. cooked with dry heat in an oven; -- of bread and pastries.
      [WordNet 1.5]

from The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

Bake \Bake\ (b[=a]k), v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Baked} (b[=a]kt); p.
   pr. & vb. n. {Baking}.] [AS. bacan; akin to D. bakken, OHG.
   bacchan, G. backen, Icel. & Sw. baka, Dan. bage, Gr. fw`gein
   to roast.]
   1. 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.
      [1913 Webster]

   Note: Baking is the term usually applied to that method of
         cooking which exhausts the moisture in food more than
         roasting or broiling; but the distinction of meaning
         between roasting and baking is not always observed.
         [1913 Webster]

   2. To dry or harden (anything) by subjecting to heat, as, to
      bake bricks; the sun bakes the ground.
      [1913 Webster]

   3. To harden by cold.
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            The earth . . . is baked with frost.  --Shak.
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            They bake their sides upon the cold, hard stone.
                                                  --Spenser.
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from Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0

47 Moby Thesaurus words for "baked":
      adust, boiled, braised, broiled, browned, burnt, coddled, cooked,
      corky, curried, dehydrated, desiccated, deviled, dried, dried-up,
      evaporated, exsiccated, fired, fricasseed, fried, grilled, heated,
      mummified, oven-baked, pan-broiled, parboiled, parched, poached,
      roast, roasted, sauteed, scalloped, scorched, sear, seared, sere,
      shirred, shriveled, steamed, stewed, sun-dried, sunbaked, toasted,
      weazened, wind-dried, withered, wizened