cook

Definitions

1. 1.One whose occupation is to prepare food for the table; one who dresses or cooks meat or vegetables for eating.
2. 2.(Zoöl.) A fish, the European striped wrasse.
3. 3.To prepare, as food, by boiling, roasting, baking, broiling, etc.; to make suitable for eating, by the agency of fire or heat.
4. 4.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.
5. 5.To prepare food for the table.

Source: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).

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