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verb

Cook v. t. To throw. (Prov.Eng.) "Cook me that ball."

Cook v. t. (past & past part. cooked; pres. part. cooking)

To prepare, as food, by boiling, roasting, baking, broiling, etc.; to make suitable for eating, by the agency of fire or heat.

To concoct or prepare; hence, to tamper with or alter; to garble; often with up; as, to cook up a story; to cook an account. (Colloq.) "They all of them receive the same advices from abroad, and very often in the same words; but their way of cooking it is so different."

Cook v. i. To make the noise of the cuckoo. (Obs. or R.) "Constant cuckoos cook on every side."

Cook v. i. To prepare food for the table.

noun

Cook n.

One whose occupation is to prepare food for the table; one who dresses or cooks meat or vegetables for eating.

(Zool.) A fish, the European striped wrasse.

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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Cook" Quotes from Famous Books

... beef Canned Willie; and the stew was known affectionately as Slum, and the doughnuts were Fried Holes. When the adjutant, who had been taking French lessons, remarked "What the la hell does that sacre-blew cook mean by serving forty-fours at every meal?" you gathered he was getting a mite tired of baked army beans. And if the lieutenant colonel asked you to pass him the Native Sons you knew he meant he wanted prunes. It was a great life, if you didn't ...

— Eating in Two or Three Languages • Irvin S. Cobb

... Cayman Islands Central African Republic Chad Chile China Christmas Island Clipperton Island Cocos (Keeling) Islands Colombia Comoros Congo, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Republic of the Cook Islands Coral Sea Islands Costa Rica Cote d'Ivoire Croatia Cuba Cyprus ...

— The 2007 CIA World Factbook • United States

... obliged to him; but I must go home and tell Mother Mesurat, that she may not cook ...

— The Cathedral • Joris-Karl Huysmans

... fine Indian meal, mixed smooth with cold water, and a saltspoonful of salt; add one quart of boiling water and cook twenty minutes. Stir it frequently, and if it becomes too thick use boiling water to thin it. If the stomach is not too weak, a tablespoonful of cream may be used to cool it. Some like it sweetened and others like it plain. For very sick persons, ...

— The Whitehouse Cookbook (1887) - The Whole Comprising A Comprehensive Cyclopedia Of Information For - The Home • Mrs. F.L. Gillette

... superior to that you get down south. Goats and sheep are fairly plentiful. In addition to fresh meat and tinned you are able to get a quantity of good sea fish, for the great West African Bank, which fringes the coast in the Bight of Benin, abounds in fish, although the native cook very rarely knows how to cook them. Then, too, you can get more fruit and vegetables on the Gold Coast than at most places lower down: the plantain, {28} not least among them and very good when allowed to become ripe, and then cut into longitudinal strips, and properly fried; the banana, which surpasses ...

— Travels in West Africa • Mary H. Kingsley

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