- (v.t.) To prepare, as food, by boiling, roasting, baking, broiling, etc.; to make suitable for eating, by the agency of fire or heat.
- (n.) One whose occupation is to prepare food for the table; one who dresses or cooks meat or vegetables for eating.
- (v.i.) To prepare food for the table.
- (n.) A fish, the European striped wrasse.
- (v.t.) To throw.
- (v.t.) To concoct or prepare; hence, to tamper with or alter; to garble; -- often with up; as, to cook up a story; to cook an account.
- (v.i.) To make the noise of the cuckoo.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
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