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A cookroom; the room of a house appropriated to cookery. Cool was his kitchen, though his brains were hot. Dryden. A fat kitchen makes a lean will. Franklin.

A kitchen servant; a cook. Carlyle.

retained by a pin which passes through the eyes and forms the pivot. -- Knuckle of veal (Cookery), the lower part of a leg of veal, from the line of the body to the knuckle.

A room or place where meat and other articles of food are kept before they are cooked. Shak.

A kind of mixed dish, as of cooked vegetables with white sauce, sweet jelly with whole fruit, etc. Also, fig., a medley.

es. The sweet marjoram (O. Majorana) is pecularly aromatic and fragrant, and much used in cookery. The wild marjoram of Europe and America is O. vulgare, far less fragrant than the other.

hts of the elements; thus, an atom of oxygen weighs sixteen microcriths. See Crith. J. P. Cooke.

A dish of meats and other ingredients, cooked together; an ollapodrida. Chaucer. Bacon.

cies of very small lemurs of the genus Chirogaleus, found in Madagascar. -- Mouse piece (Cookery), the piece of beef cut from the part next below the round or from the lower part of the latter; -- called also mouse buttock.

Scent or savor of meat or food, cooked or cooking. [Obs.] Jer. Taylor.

Pertaining to pot herbs; of the nature or having the qualities of herbs for cookery; esculent. Sir T. Browne.

A small slice of meat seasoned, rolled up, and cooked; as, olives of beef or veal.

Eggs beaten up with a little flour, etc., and cooked in a frying pan; as, a plain omelet.

Eating raw flesh; using uncooked meat as food; as, omophagic feasts, rites.

To cook too much; as, to overdo the meat.

ant. (Bot.) (a) A plant of the genus Tragopogon (T. porrifolius), the root of which, when cooked, somewhat resembles the oyster in taste; salsify; -- called also vegetable oyster. (b) A plant found on the seacoast of Northern Europe, America and Asia (Mertensia maritima), the fresh leaves of which have a strong flavor…

ud. Flash in the pan. See under Flash. -- To savor of the pan, to suggest the process of cooking or burning; in a theological sense, to be heretical. Ridley. Southey.

t tender. Also, its dull orange-colored, melon- shaped fruit, which is eaten both raw and cooked or pickled.

To boil or cook thoroughly. [Obs.] B. Jonson.

c umbelliferous herb (Carum Petroselinum), having finely divided leaves which are used in cookery and as a garnish. As she went to the garden for parsley, to stuff a rabbit. Shak. Fool's parsley. See under Fool. -- Hedge parsley, Milk parsley, Stone parsley, names given to various weeds of similar appearance to the pa…