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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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"Cook" Quotes from Famous Books

... President, Mr. Speaker, Mr. Chief Justice, Senator Cook, Mrs. Eisenhower, and my fellow citizens of this great and good country ...

— U.S. Presidential Inaugural Addresses • Various

... Cleon's brother Comanus was taken here; all the prisoners were first tortured, and then thrown down the rocks. At Enna Cleon made a gallant sally, and died of his wounds. Eunous fled and was pulled out of a pit with his cook, his baker, his bathman, and his fool. He is said to have died in prison of the same disease as Sulla and Herod. Rupilius crucified over 20,000 slaves, and so quenched with blood ...

— The Gracchi Marius and Sulla - Epochs Of Ancient History • A.H. Beesley

... get a good cook; all the Bavarian cooks are good. We shall cut a fine figure, and people will say ...

— The Memoires of Casanova, Complete • Jacques Casanova de Seingalt

... cook and a captain bold, And the mate of the Nancy brig, And a bo'sun tight, and a midshipmite, And the ...

— Journeys Through Bookland - Volume Four • Charles H. Sylvester

... park, that the cougar is king of all the beasts of North America. Even a grizzly dashed away in great haste when a cougar made his appearance. At the road camp, near Mt. Washburn, during the fall of 1904, the bears, grizzlies and others, were always hanging round the cook tent. There were cougars also, and almost every evening, about dusk, a big fellow would come parading past the tent. The bears would grunt furiously and scamper in every direction. It was easy to tell when a cougar was in the neighborhood, by the peculiar grunts and snorts of ...

— The Last of the Plainsmen • Zane Grey

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