Tough-cake

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• Tough

  ·superl Severe; violent; as, a tough storm. II. Tough ·superl Stiff; rigid; not flexible; stubborn;...

  Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

• Cake

  ·vi To cackle as a goose. II. Cake ·vi To form into a cake, or mass. III. Cake ·noun A thin wafer-...

  Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

• Cake

  Cakes made of wheat or barley were offered in the temple. They were salted, but unleavened (Ex. 29:2...

  Easton's Bible Dictionary

• cake, or cakey

  A foolish fellow. ...

  Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose

• Tough-head

  ·noun The ruddy duck. ...

  Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

• Tough-pitch

  ·noun Copper so reduced; — called also tough-cake. II. Tough-pitch ·noun The exact state or qualit...

  Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

• Genoa cake

  ·add. ·- A rich glazed cake, with almonds, pistachios, filberts, or other nuts; also, a rich currant...

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• Mill-cake

  ·noun The incorporated materials for gunpowder, in the form of a dense mass or cake, ready to be sub...

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• Press cake

  ·add. ·- A cake of compressed substance, as: in gunpowder manufacture, the cake resulting from compr...

  Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

• Rout cake

  ·add. ·- A kind of rich sweet cake made for routs, or evening parties. ...

  Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

• Twelfth-cake

  ·noun An ornamented cake distributed among friends or visitors on the festival of Twelfth-night. ...

  Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

• fat-cake

  n. ridiculous name sometimesapplied to Eucalyptus leucoxylon, F. v. M., according toMaiden (`Useful...

  Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris

• hoe-cake

  A cake of Indian meal, baked before the fire. In the interior parts of the country, where kitchen ut...

  Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.

• johnny-cake

  A cake made of Indian meal mixed with milk or water. A New England Johnny-cake is invariably spread ...

  Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.

• haver-cake

  oat-cake. York. ...

  A glossary of provincial and local words used in England by Francis Grose

• hopper-cake

  a seed-cake with plums in it, with which the farmers treat their servants when seed-time is finished...

  A glossary of provincial and local words used in England by Francis Grose

• spice-cake

  plumb-cake. SPICE-GINGERBREAD does not imply plumbs, but gingerbread that is warm in the mouth. ...

  A glossary of provincial and local words used in England by Francis Grose

• cake-ice

  Ice formed in the early part of the season. ...

  The Sailor's Word-Book