Cook \Cook\ (k[oo^]k), v. i. To prepare food for the table.
Cook \Cook\ (k[=oo]k), v. i. [Of imitative origin.] To make the noise of the cuckoo. [Obs. or R.]
Constant cuckoos cook on every side. --The Silkworms (1599).
Cook \Cook\ (k[oo^]k), v. t. [Etymol. unknown.] To throw. [Prov.Eng.] ``Cook me that ball.'' --Grose.
Cook \Cook\ (k[oo^]k), n. [AS. c[=o]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.
2. (Zo["o]l.) A fish, the European striped wrasse.
Cook \Cook\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Cooked} (k[oo^]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.
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.]
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.
Peacock \Pea"cock`\ (p[=e]"k[o^]k`), n. [OE. pecok. Pea- in this word is from AS. pe['a], p[=a]wa, peacock, fr. L. pavo, prob. of Oriental origin; cf. Gr. taw`s, taw^s, Per. t[=a]us, t[=a]wus, Ar. t[=a]w[=u]s. See {Cock} the bird.] 1. (Zo["o]l.) 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.
Note: 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.
2. In common usage, the species in general or collectively; a peafowl.
{Peacock butterfly} (Zo["o]l.), a handsome European butterfly ({Hamadryas Io}) having ocelli like those of peacock.
{Peacock fish} (Zo["o]l.), the European blue-striped wrasse ({Labrus variegatus}); -- so called on account of its brilliant colors. Called also {cook wrasse} and {cook}.
{Peacock pheasant} (Zo["o]l.), any one of several species of handsome Asiatic pheasants of the genus {Polyplectron}. They resemble the peacock in color.
A foie gras week, she suggests, ought to include hands-on experience at making foie gras and confits in the farmhouse kitchen of a small duck producer she knows, and learning to cook dishes using both confits and fresh duck.
"We can't just 'microwave' jeans anymore; we have to cook them," jokes a Lee trouble-shooter who hustles from one laundry to the next.
A short-order cook was charged with murder after police found boiled and peeled parts of his girlfriend's body in a bus terminal storage compartment.
Her enterprise unraveled when a former cook, Russell Lucas, went to police, who sent in a young undercover policewoman to an interview with Ms. Adams.
Cover and cook in 350-degree oven approximately 45 minutes, stirring every 15 minutes.
While not cheap, it requires very little effort by the cook to make a memorable feast. Like most top-quality meats and fish, sea bass shows to the best advantage if given very little embellishment.
Perhaps microfries would be at home in convenience stores. In an early test in such stores, Horizons sought to reduce the preparation guesswork by installing its own microwave ovens, with a special button that would cook the fries to preset perfection.
The official China Daily said today the unidentified woman cook was applauded by residents in Linshu County, one of the poorest in the coastal province of Shandong.
Husband Matthew Rice, painter and a joint managing director of the company, will some days cook them all lunch there; other days she will go the few yards back to their house.
Perhaps mother's home-cooked lunches, grandmother's teatime baking treats or visits to the kitchen of that vanishing species, the domestic cook.
My mind isn't absorbing these things." She spoke from the Family Life Center, a private women's shelter where she has lived and worked as a cook.
First, cook it skin side down.
Besides, adds Mr. Cusimano, now a restaurateur, modern octopus-hurlers don't know enough to cook the animals before they throw them.
When she arrives home from school, she says, "I cook a snack and if I want to, I cook dinner."
When she arrives home from school, she says, "I cook a snack and if I want to, I cook dinner."
"I come from a long order of tradition," Allende said in a recent interview. "I used to listen to the maid and cook tell stories in the kitchen.
U.S. food companies, struggling to jump on the gourmet-food wagon, are renewing their efforts to cook up fancy chilled fare.
She has come to accept it but won't cook it: "too messy."
Lie on the silvery sand of Fort Orange under a tall coconut palm and let small boys cook freshly caught lobster and pour ice-cold beer.
The staff have a holiday so I give everyone, especially my children, aged 15 and 13, jobs to do. I co-ordinate it all and cook. 'I don't pre-plan what to wear at home during Christmas but I am very organised.
With a Fijian skipper, a Trobriand Islander cook and a Papuan crew, it reaches remote ports and villages thanks to its 7.5-foot draft.
They join nearly 300 lawyers, 100 retired people, an actor, a cook and a casket manufacturer this week as they cram into the cramped auditorium of the Omni to nominate Massachusetts Gov. Michael Dukakis for president.
Daily and chef Kathy Ruiz cook with infusions _ the essences of various foods such as red peppers, carrots and roses that are distilled in oil.
In a large saucepan over medium heat, cook the turnips in boiling salted water to cover until tender.
Prosecutors have dropped battery charges against Dotson in the incident in which, officials said, he had argued with bar employees over a sandwich and stabbed a cook in the hand.
Let's hope the programme obscures the fact that the Italians taught them to cook, and overlooks the Second World War.
Private caterers churn out 20,000 meals a day to those families that don't want to cook.
FOOD shopping can be great fun, particularly if you go with an open mind as to what you will eventually cook.
"The old ones are dying off and the young ones leave us," says Councilwoman Mary Grimm, 81, a retired cook.
The Food and Drug Administration is urging that people cook their eggs well to prevent the spread of potentially fatal food contamination caused by salmonella bacteria.