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en a bystander took a coin to get it changed, and converted it, [it was] held no larceny. Cooley.

the boilers in the galley for cooking; as, a ship's coppers.

The ovaries of a cooked lobster; -- so called from their color.

ntle in some costumes of state. Cordon bleu (kd" bl Etym: [F., blue cordon], a first-rate cook, or one worthy to be the cook of the cordons bleus, or Knights of the Holy Ghost, famous for their good dinners. -- Cordon sanitaire (kd" s Etym: [F., sanitary cordon], a line of troops or military posts around a district in…

To surround and inclose; to coop up; to put into an inclosed space; -- primarily used with reference to securing horses and cattle in an inclosure of wagons while traversing the plains, but in the Southwestern United States now colloquially applied to the capturing, securing, or penning of anything. Bartlett.…

A pen, coop, or like shelter for small domestic animals, as for sheep or pigeons; a cote.

t is pale yellow when pure (sp. gr., .92-.93). and is extensively used in soap making, in cookery, and as an adulterant of other oils.

r. A well-couched invective. Milton. I had received a letter from Flora couched in rather cool terms. Blackw. Mag.

ed by houses; a blind alley. The courts the house of our God. Ps. cxxxv. 2. And round the cool green courts there ran a row Cf cloisters. Tennyson. Goldsmith took a garret in a miserable court. Macualay.

cies of Vaccinium (V. Vitis-id), which bears acid red berries which are sometimes used in cookery; -- locally called mountain cranberry.

rnish with, or as with, cream. Creaming the fragrant cups. Mrs. Whitney. To cream butter (Cooking), to rub, stir, or beat, butter till it is of a light creamy consistency.

Cream; -- a term used esp. in cookery, names of liqueurs, etc.

To make crisp or brittle, as in cooking. Crisping iron, an instrument by which hair or any textile fabric is crisped. -- Crisping pin, the simplest form of crisping iron. Is. iii. 22.

To coo. [Scot.]

Bread baked in a mold, and scooped out, to serve minces upon. Bishop.

A cooper's tool for making the grooves for the heads of casks, etc.; also, the groove itself.

In its natural state; not cooked or prepared by fire or heat; undressed; not altered, refined, or prepared for use by any artificial process; raw; as, crude flesh. "Common crude salt." Boyle. Molding to its will each successive deposit of the crude materials. I. Taylor.

A kind of large. thin muffin or cake, light and spongy, and cooked on a griddle or spider.

The dough, or mass of doughy paste, cooked with a potpie; -- also called dumpling. Th' impenetrable crust thy teeth defies. Dryden. He that keeps nor crust nor crumb. Shak. They . . . made the crust for the venison pasty. Macualay.

its vapor, devoid of air. The water is in one of the bulbs, and freezes when the other is cooled below 32º Fahr.