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"Section C"

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.


Cook"book` (-b&oocr;k`), n. A
book of directions and receipts for cooking; a cookery
book.
[U.S.]


"Just How": a key to the cookbooks.

Mrs. A. D. T. Whitney.


Cook*ee" (k&oocr;k*ē"),
n.


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