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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

... is customary for guests at the end of a house-party visit to give tips to the maid for extra attention and taking care of the room, and also to the cook. The latter is usually tipped by the ...

— The Book of Good Manners • W. C. Green

... the ship. The decent missionaries were certainly guiltless of putting that into my head, whether they ever saw it or not—a great many things happening in the South Seas of which they find it convenient to say nothing. I think I picked it up from Wallis, or Cook, or ...

— Alton Locke, Tailor And Poet • Rev. Charles Kingsley et al

... flute was ambrosia, the brioche was more than good enough for the Olympians. Such an experience could not repeat itself fifty years later. The first restaurant at which we dined was in the Palais Royal. The place was hot enough to cook an egg. Nothing was very excellent nor very bad; the wine was not so good as they gave us at our hotel in London; the enchanter had not waved his wand over our repast, as he did over my earlier one in the Place de la Bourse, and I had not the slightest desire to ...

— The Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table • Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. (The Physician and Poet not the Jurist)

... before the three big brothers left with the thrashers, the string of gopher-tails was so long that she brought it into the kitchen and gave it proudly to the eldest brother to count. Then it was put into a twist of hay and shoved into the cook-stove. ...

— The Biography of a Prairie Girl • Eleanor Gates

... your mother must be a wonderful cook to have raised such a healthy little girl. I'm sure there's nothing she could learn from me," Aunt Twylee said as she arose. "Let's go inside and ...

— One Martian Afternoon • Tom Leahy

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