COOK
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Traducere: română
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Cook (k&oō_;k), v. i. [Of imitative origin.] To make the noise of the cuckoo. [Obs. or R.]
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Constant cuckoos cook on every side.
The Silkworms (1599).
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Cook (k&oobreve_;k), v. t. [Etymol. unknown.] To throw. [Prov.Eng.] “Cook me that ball.” Grose.
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Cook (k&oobreve_;k), n. [AS. c&ō;c, fr. L. cocus, coquus, coquus, fr. coquere to cook; akin to Gr. pe`ptein, Skr. pac, and to E. apricot, biscuit, concoct, dyspepsia, precocious. Cf. Pumpkin.] 1. One whose occupation is to prepare food for the table; one who dresses or cooks meat or vegetables for eating.
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2. (Zo&ö;l.) A fish, the European striped wrasse.
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Cook, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Cooked (k&oobreve_;kt); p. pr & vb. n. Cooking.] 1. To prepare, as food, by boiling, roasting, baking, broiling, etc.; to make suitable for eating, by the agency of fire or heat.
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2. 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. [Colloq.]
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They all of them receive the same advices from abroad, and very often in the same words; but their way of cooking it is so different.
Addison.
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Cook (k&oobreve_;k), v. i. To prepare food for the table.
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