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w living in the state of Washington, noted for the custom of flattening their skulls. Chinooks also called Flathead Indians.

Washington -- a nickname. See Chinook, n.

To make the noise of the cuckoo. [Obs. or R.] Constant cuckoos cook on every side. The Silkworms (1599).

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.

A female cook. [R.]

The art or process of preparing food for the table, by dressing, compounding, and the application of heat.

See Cooky.

A female servant or maid who dresses provisions and assists the cook.

A room for cookery; a kitchen; the galley or caboose of a ship. Sir W. Raleigh.

An eating house. "A subterranean cookshop." Macaulay.

A small, flat, sweetened cake of various kinds.

A bend, turn, or curve; curvature; flexure. Through lanes, and crooks, and darkness. Phaer.

A crooked back; one who has a crooked or deformed back; a hunchback.

A New Zealand plover (Anarhynchus frontalis), remarkable for having the end of the beak abruptly bent to the right.

Characterized by a crook or curve; not straight; turning; bent; twisted; deformed. "Crooked paths." Locke. he is deformed, crooked, old, and sere. Shak.

In a curved or crooked manner; in a perverse or untoward manner.

The condition or quality of being crooked; hence, deformity of body or of mind; deviation from moral rectitude; perverseness.

To make crooked. [Obs.]

erved only when the pressure is low enough to give a striated discharge; -- called also Crookes layer.

y high degree, with the production of a distinct class of effects; -- so called from W. Crookes who introduced it.