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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.

The fieldfare; -- so called from its harsh cry before rain. [Prov. Eng.]

Roman epicure; hence applied to whatever is peculiarly refined or dainty and expensive in cookery. H. Rogers.

rly dexterous and tasteful in almost any employment, as an opera dancer, a hairdresser, a cook.

ailing water out of a boat. [Obs.] The bail of a canoe . . . made of a human skull. Capt. Cook.

To prepare, as food, by cooking in a dry heat, either in an oven or under coals, or on heated stone or metal; as, to bake bread, meat, apples.

The act or process of cooking in an oven, or of drying and hardening by heat or cold.

licum), and the bush basil, or lesser basil (O. minimum), the leaves of which are used in cookery. The name is also given to several kinds of mountain mint (Pycnanthemum). Basil thyme, a name given to the fragrant herbs Calamintha Acinos and C. Nepeta. -- Wild basil, a plant (Calamintha clinopodium) of the Mint family…

mixture of several ingredients, as, flour, eggs, milk, etc. , beaten together and used in cookery. King.

To be in boiling water, as in cooking; as, the potatoes are boiling. To boil away, to vaporize; to evaporate or be evaporated by the action of heat. -- To boil over, to run over the top of a vessel, as liquid when thrown into violent agitation by heat or other cause of effervescence; to be excited with ardor or passio…

Dressed or cooked by boiling; subjected to the action of a boiling liquid; as, boiled meat; a boiled dinner; boiled clothes.

ucture variously formed, in which steam is generated for driving engines, or for heating, cooking, or other purposes.