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Cook (k&oomac;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).
Cook (k&oocr;k), v. t. [Etymol.
unknown.] To throw. [Prov.Eng.] "Cook me that
ball." Grose.
Cook (k&oocr;k), n. [AS.
cōc, 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. (Zoöl.) A fish, the
European striped wrasse.
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.
Cook (k&oocr;k), v. i. To
prepare food for the table.
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