GNU Collaborative International Dictionary of English

Found 6 definitions

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   Cook (ko͞ok), 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 (ko͝ok), v. t. [Etymol. unknown.] To throw. [Prov.Eng.] “Cook me that ball.”  Grose.
   
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   Cook (ko͝ok), n. [AS. cōc, fr. L. cocus, coquus, coquus, fr. coquere to cook; akin to Gr. πέπτειν, 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. (Zool.) A fish, the European striped wrasse.
   
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   Cook, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Cooked (ko͝okt); 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 (ko͝ok), v. i. To prepare food for the table.
   
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   Peacock (pēˈkŏkˌ), n. [OE. pecok. Pea- in this word is from AS. peá, pāwa, peacock, fr. L. pavo, prob. of Oriental origin; cf. Gr. ταώς, ταῶς, Per. tāus, tāwus, Ar. tāwūs. See Cock the bird.]
   1. (Zool.) The male of any pheasant of the genus Pavo, of which at least two species are known, native of Southern Asia and the East Indies.
   
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   ☞ The upper tail coverts, which are long and capable of erection, are each marked with a black spot bordered by concentric bands of brilliant blue, green, and golden colors.  The common domesticated species is Pavo cristatus.  The Javan peacock (Pavo muticus) is more brilliantly colored than the common species.
   
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   2. In common usage, the species in general or collectively; a peafowl.
   
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   Peacock butterfly (Zool.), a handsome European butterfly (Hamadryas Io) having ocelli like those of peacock. -- Peacock fish (Zool.), the European blue-striped wrasse (Labrus variegatus); -- so called on account of its brilliant colors. Called also cook wrasse and cook. -- Peacock pheasant (Zool.), any one of several species of handsome Asiatic pheasants of the genus Polyplectron. They resemble the peacock in color.
   
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