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ake answer; also of jurors, witnesses, etc. In default of, in case of failure or lack of. Cooks could make artificial birds and fishes in default of the real ones. Arbuthnot. -- To suffer a default (Law), to permit an action to be called without appearing to answer.

To grill with Cayenne pepper; to season highly in cooking, as with pepper. A deviled leg of turkey. W. Irving. deviled egg a hard-boiled egg, sliced into halves and with the yolk removed and replaced with a paste, usually made from the yolk and mayonnaise, seasoned with salt and/or spices such as paprika.…

owels or interior parts of; to eviscerate. Soon after their death, they are disemboweled. Cook. Roaring floods and cataracts that sweep From disemboweled earth the virgin gold. Thomson.

or restored. Dissipated those foggy mists of error. Selden. I soon dissipated his fears. Cook. The extreme tendency of civilization is to dissipate all intellectual energy. Hazlitt.

To make ready for an object, purpose, or use, as food by cooking; to cook completely or sufficiently; as, the meat is done on one side only.

The art of house-keeping, cookery, etc. [R.] R. Park.

ne or agreed; let it be a match or bargain; -- used elliptically. Done brown, a phrase in cookery; applied figuratively to one who has been thoroughly deceived, cheated, or fooled. [Colloq.] -- Done for, tired out; used up; collapsed; destroyed; dead; killed. [Colloq.] -- Done up. (a) Wrapped up. (b) Worn out; exhauste…

breast of Dover, and about three came to an anchor in the Downs, and went ashore at Deal. Cook (First Voyage).

A cupboard or set of shelves to receive dishes and cooking utensils. The pewter plates on the dresser Caught and reflected the flame, as shields of armies the sunshine. Longfellow.

To let fall in drops. Let the cook . . . dribble it all the way upstairs. Swift.

fit to be eaten; food; as, a peach is good eating. [Colloq.] Eating house, a house where cooked provisions are sold, to be eaten on the premises.

n two others. Its appearance is that of a surface covered with scales. Escaloped oysters (Cookery). See under Scalloped.

A kind of small, portable, cooking apparatus for which heat is furnished by a spirit lamp. There should certainly be an etna for getting a hot cup of coffee in a hurry. V. Baker.

s or from the starch or fecula of vegetables, extracted by various processes, and used in cookery.

A fklat cake turned on the griddle while cooking; a griddlecake or pacake.

A pot or vessel in which flesh is cooked; hence (pl.),

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.

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.