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ncy dish of veal or of boned turkey, served as an entrée, -- called also fricandel. A. J. Cooley.

Cooling. [Obs.] Boyle.

To make cool. [Obs.] Blount.

The cooling room of the Roman thermæ, furnished with a cold bath.

To cook in a pan or on a griddle (esp. with the use of fat, butter, or olive oil) by heating over a fire; to cook in boiling lard or fat; as, to fry fish; to fry doughnuts.

The cookroom or kitchen and cooking apparatus of a vessel; -- sometimes on merchant vessels called the caboose.

pean gallinule (Gallinula chloropus) is also called moor hen, water hen, water rail, moor coot, night bird, and erroneously dabchick. Closely related to it is the Florida gallinule (Gallinula galeata).

An under servant for the kitchen; a scullion; a cook's errand boy. [Obs.] Halliwell.

Having the flavor of game, esp. of game kept uncooked till near the condition of tainting; high-flavored.

A water cooler or jug with a handle and spout; a gurglet. Mollett.

about which kindling wood is gathered in the morning. -- Gathering hoop, a hoop used by coopers to draw together the ends of barrel staves, to allow the hoops to be slipped over them. -- Gathering peat. (a) A piece of peat used as a gathering coal, to preserve a fire. (b) In Scotland, a fiery peat which was sent rou…

not remain suspended as vapor in the blast current, but will be deposited as snow in the cooling apparatus. The resultant uniformly dehydrated blast effects great economy in fuel consumption, and promotes regularity of furnace operation, and certainty of furnace control.

. Its distinguishing character is that of dissolving in hot water, and forming a jelly on cooling. It is an important ingredient of calf's-foot jelly, isinglass, glue, etc. It is used as food, but its nutritious qualities are of a low order.

The process of becoming solid by cooling; a cooling and solidifying.

e for sarsaparilla extract. -- German sausage, a polony, or gut stuffed with meat partly cooked. -- German silver (Chem.), a silver-white alloy, hard and tough, but malleable and ductile, and quite permanent in the air. It contains nickel, copper, and zinc in varying proportions, and was originally made from old copp…

The hot and spicy rootstock of Zingiber officinale, which is much used in cookery and in medicine. Ginger beer or ale, a mild beer impregnated with ginger. -- Ginger cordial, a liquor made from ginger, raisins, lemon rind, and water, and sometimes whisky or brandy. -- Ginger pop. See Ginger beer (above). -- Ginger w…

Sulphate of soda, a well-known cathartic. It is a white crystalline substance, with a cooling, slightly bitter taste, and is commonly called "salts."

hering after reapers; that which is collected by gleaning. Glenings of natural knowledge. Cook.

Having small clusters of minutely branched coral-like excrescences. M. C. Cooke.

; to flush. [Poetic] Fans, whose wind did seem To glow the delicate cheeks which they did cool. Shak.