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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

COOK, v.t. [L.]
1. To prepare, as victuals for the table, by boiling, roasting, baking, broiling, etc. To dress, as meat or vegetables, for eating.
2. To prepare for any purpose.
3. To throw. [Obs. or local.]
COOK, v.i. To make the noise of the cuckoo.
COOK, n. [L.] One whose occupation is to prepare victuals for the table; a man or woman who dresses meat or vegetables for eating.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

n
1: someone who cooks food
2: English navigator who claimed the east coast of Australia for Britain and discovered several Pacific islands (1728-1779) [syn: Cook, James Cook, Captain Cook, Captain James Cook] v
1: prepare a hot meal; "My husband doesn't cook"
2: prepare for eating by applying heat; "Cook me dinner, please"; "can you make me an omelette?"; "fix breakfast for the guests, please" [syn: cook, fix, ready, make, prepare]
3: transform and make suitable for consumption by heating; "These potatoes have to cook for 20 minutes"
4: tamper, with the purpose of deception; "Fudge the figures"; "cook the books"; "falsify the data" [syn: fudge, manipulate, fake, falsify, cook, wangle, misrepresent]
5: transform by heating; "The apothecary cooked the medicinal mixture in a big iron kettle"

Merriam Webster's

biographical name James 1728-1779 English navigator & explorer

Merriam Webster's

I. noun Etymology: Middle English, from Old English c?c, from Latin coquus, from coquere to cook; akin to Old English ?figen fried, Greek pessein to cook Date: before 12th century 1. a person who prepares food for eating 2. a technical or industrial process comparable to cooking food; also a substance so processed II. verb Date: 14th century intransitive verb 1. to prepare food for eating especially by means of heat <French cooking> 2. to undergo the action of being cooked <the rice is cooking now> 3. occur, happen <find out what was cooking in the committee> 4. to perform, do, or proceed well <the jazz quartet was cooking along> <the party cooked right through the night> transitive verb 1. concoct, fabricate — usually used with up <cooked up a scheme> 2. to prepare for eating by a heating process 3. falsify, doctor <cooked the books with phony spending cuts and accounting gimmickry — Colleen O'Connor> 4. to subject to the action of heat or fire • cookable adjective

Oxford Reference Dictionary

v. & n. --v. 1 tr. prepare (food) by heating it. 2 intr. (of food) undergo cooking. 3 tr. colloq. falsify (accounts etc.); alter to produce a desired result. 4 tr. sl. ruin, spoil. 5 tr. (esp. as cooked adj.) Brit. sl. fatigue, exhaust. 6 tr. & intr. US colloq. do or proceed successfully. 7 intr. (as be cooking) colloq. be happening or about to happen (went to find out what was cooking). --n. a person who cooks, esp. professionally or in a specified way (a good cook). Phrases and idioms: cook-chill 1 the process of cooking and refrigerating food ready for reheating at a later time. 2 (attrib.) (of food) prepared in this way. cook a person's goose ruin a person's chances. cook up colloq. invent or concoct (a story, excuse, etc.). Derivatives: cookable adj. & n. Etymology: OE coc f. pop.L cocus for L coquus

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Peacock Pea"cock`, n. [OE. pecok. Pea- in this word is from AS. pe['a], p[=a]wa, peacock, fr. L. pavo, prob. of Oriental origin; cf. Gr. ?, ?, Per. t[=a]us, t[=a]wus, Ar. t[=a]wu?s. See Cock the bird.] 1. (Zo["o]l.) The male of any pheasant of the genus Pavo, of which at least two species are known, native of Southern Asia and the East Indies. Note: The upper tail coverts, which are long and capable of erection, are each marked with a black spot bordered by concentric bands of brilliant blue, green, and golden colors. The common domesticated species is Pavo cristatus. The Javan peacock (P. muticus) is more brilliantly colored than the common species. 2. In common usage, the species in general or collectively; a peafowl. Peacock butterfly (Zo["o]l.), a handsome European butterfly (Hamadryas Io) having ocelli like those of peacock. Peacock fish (Zo["o]l.), the European blue-striped wrasse (Labrus variegatus); -- so called on account of its brilliant colors. Called also cook wrasse and cook. Peacock pheasant (Zo["o]l.), any one of several species of handsome Asiatic pheasants of the genus Polyplectron. They resemble the peacock in color.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Cook Cook (k[=oo]k), v. i. [Of imitative origin.] To make the noise of the cuckoo. [Obs. or R.] Constant cuckoos cook on every side. --The Silkworms (1599).

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Cook Cook (k[oo^]k), v. t. [Etymol. unknown.] To throw. [Prov.Eng.] ``Cook me that ball.'' --Grose.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Cook Cook (k[oo^]k), n. [AS. c[=o]c, fr. l. cocus, coquus, coquus, fr. coquere to cook; akin to Gr. ?, Skr. pac, and to E. apricot, biscuit, concoct, dyspepsia, precocious. Cf. Pumpkin.] 1. One whose occupation is to prepare food for the table; one who dresses or cooks meat or vegetables for eating. 2. (Zo["o]l.) A fish, the European striped wrasse.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Cook Cook, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Cooked; p. pr & vb. n. Cooking.] 1. To prepare, as food, by boiling, roasting, baking, broiling, etc.; to make suitable for eating, by the agency of fire or heat. 2. 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. --Addison.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Cook Cook (k[oo^]k), v. i. To prepare food for the table.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

(cooks, cooking, cooked) Frequency: The word is one of the 1500 most common words in English. 1. When you cook a meal, you prepare food for eating by heating it. I have to go and cook the dinner... Chefs at the St James Court restaurant have cooked for the Queen... We'll cook them a nice Italian meal. VERB: V n, V, V n n • cooking Her hobbies include music, dancing, sport and cooking. 2. When you cook food, or when food cooks, it is heated until it is ready to be eaten. ...some basic instructions on how to cook a turkey... Let the vegetables cook gently for about 10 minutes... Drain the pasta as soon as it is cooked. VERB: V n, V, V-ed 3. A cook is a person whose job is to prepare and cook food, especially in someone's home or in an institution. They had a butler, a cook, and a maid. = chef N-COUNT 4. If you say that someone is a good cook, you mean they are good at preparing and cooking food. N-COUNT: adj N 5. If you say that someone has cooked the books, you mean that they have changed figures or a written record in order to deceive people. (INFORMAL) PHRASE: V inflects 6. see also cooking

Easton's Bible Dictionary

a person employed to perform culinary service. In early times among the Hebrews cooking was performed by the mistress of the household (Gen. 18:2-6; Judg. 6:19), and the process was very expeditiously performed (Gen. 27:3, 4, 9, 10). Professional cooks were afterwards employed (1 Sam. 8:13; 9:23). Few animals, as a rule, were slaughtered (other than sacrifices), except for purposes of hospitality (Gen. 18:7; Luke 15:23). The paschal lamb was roasted over a fire (Ex. 12:8, 9; 2Chr. 35:13). Cooking by boiling was the usual method adopted (Lev. 8:31; Ex. 16:23). No cooking took place on the Sabbath day (Ex. 35:3).

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

v. a. 1. Prepare (food) for the table. 2. Dress up, tamper with, color, give a color to, garble, falsify.

Foolish Dictionary

A charitable institution, providing food and shelter for Policemen.

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