Definition of cook

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Cook (v. i.) To prepare food for the table.

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Culinary :: Culinary (a.) Relating to the kitchen, or to the art of cookery; used in kitchens; as, a culinary vessel; the culinary art..
Artiste :: Artiste (n.) One peculiarly dexterous and tasteful in almost any employment, as an opera dancer, a hairdresser, a cook..
Cookmaid :: Cookmaid (n.) A female servant or maid who dresses provisions and assists the cook.
Slapjack :: Slapjack (n.) A flat batter cake cooked on a griddle; a flapjack; a griddlecake.
Pumpkin :: Pumpkin (n.) A well-known trailing plant (Cucurbita pepo) and its fruit, -- used for cooking and for feeding stock; a pompion..
Boil :: Boil (v. t.) To subject to the action of heat in a boiling liquid so as to produce some specific effect, as cooking, cleansing, etc.; as, to boil meat; to boil clothes..
Taro :: Taro (n.) A name for several aroid plants (Colocasia antiquorum, var. esculenta, Colocasia macrorhiza, etc.), and their rootstocks. They have large ovate-sagittate leaves and large fleshy rootstocks, which are cooked and used for food in tropical countries..
Currant :: Currant (n.) A small kind of seedless raisin, imported from the Levant, chiefly from Zante and Cephalonia; -- used in cookery..
Trichina :: Trichina (n.) A small, slender nematoid worm (Trichina spiralis) which, in the larval state, is parasitic, often in immense numbers, in the voluntary muscles of man, the hog, and many other animals. When insufficiently cooked meat containing the larvae is swallowed by man, they are liberated and rapidly become adult, pair, and the ovoviviparous females produce in a short time large numbers of young which find their way into the muscles, either directly, or indirectly by means of the blood. Their
Potch :: Potch (v. t.) See Poach, to cook..
Crumpet :: Crumpet (n.) A kind of large, thin muffin or cake, light and spongy, and cooked on a griddle or spider..
Parboil :: Parboil (v. t.) To boil in part; to cook partially by boiling.
Batter :: Batter (v. t.) A semi-liquid mixture of several ingredients, as, flour, eggs, milk, etc., beaten together and used in cookery..
Cookie :: Cookie (n.) See Cooky.
Caboose :: Caboose (n.) A house on deck, where the cooking is done; -- commonly called the galley..
Fleshpot :: Fleshpot (n.) A pot or vessel in which flesh is cooke.
Preparation :: Preparation (n.) That which is prepared, made, or compounded by a certain process or for a particular purpose; a combination. Specifically: (a) Any medicinal substance fitted for use. (b) Anything treated for preservation or examination as a specimen. (c) Something prepared for use in cookery..
Chick-pea :: Chick-pea (n.) Its nutritious seed, used in cookery, and especially, when roasted (parched pulse), as food for travelers in the Eastern deserts..
Waffle :: Waffle (n.) A soft indented cake cooked in a waffle iron.
Botany Bay :: Botany Bay () A harbor on the east coast of Australia, and an English convict settlement there; -- so called from the number of new plants found on its shore at its discovery by Cook in 1770..
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