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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 It contains nickel, copper, and zinc in varying proportions, and was originally made from old copp…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…

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 cook, as macaroni, in a savory juice or sauce until juice is absorbed and a crisp surface forms.

The juice or other liquid matter that drips from flesh in cooking, made into a dressing for the food when served up.

An iron plate or pan used for cooking cakes.

as the place of gathering for the lord's family with the retainers and servants, also for cooking and eating. It was often contrasted with the bower, which was the private or sleeping apartment. Full sooty was her bower and eke her hall. Chaucer. Hence, as the entrance from outside was directly into the hall:…

which is hashed or chopped up; meat and vegetables, especially such as have been already cooked, chopped into small pieces and mixed.

g the wind. See under Haul, v. t. I . . . hauled up for it, and found it to be an island. Cook.

first; as, the head master of a school; the head man of a tribe; a head chorister; a head cook.

Like hemp. "Beat into a hempen state." Cook.

Strong-scented; slightly tainted; as, epicures do not cook game before it is high.

meal, water, and salt, baked before the fire or in the ashes; -- so called because often cooked on a hoe. [Southern U.S.]

on to action or exertion; want of energy; sluggishness. The gloomy inactivity of despair. Cook.

Into, or towards, the interior, away from the coast. Cook. The greatest waves of population have rolled inland from the east. S. Turner.

ntersperse a book with pictures. Which space is interspersed with small islands and rock. Cook.

Incapable of being reformed; incorrigible. Joseph Cook.

part which can be expressed from fruit, etc.; the fluid part which separates from meat in cooking. An animal whose juices are unsound. Arbuthnot. The juice of July flowers. B. Jonson. The juice of Egypt's grape. Shak. Letters which Edward Digby wrote in lemon juice. Macaulay. Cold water draws the juice of meat. Mrs. Wh…

London, to which Addison and Steele belonged; -- so called from Christopher Cat, a pastry cook, who served the club with mutton pies.