Cook

Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

·vi To prepare food for the table.

II. Cook ·vt To Throw.

III. Cook ·vi To make the noise of the cuckoo.

IV. Cook ·noun A fish, the European striped wrasse.

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

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

VII. Cook ·vt 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.

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