Cook — Defs

01 v. i. To make the noise of the cuckoo.

1.
To make the noise of the cuckoo.[Obs. or R.]
“Constant cuckoos cook on every side.” — The Silkworms (1599).

02 v. t. To throw.

03 n. One whose occupation is to prepare food for the table; one who dresses or cooks meat or vegetables for eating.

1.
One whose occupation is to prepare food for the table; one who dresses or cooks meat or vegetables for eating.
2.
A fish, the European striped wrasse.(Zool.)

04 v. t. To prepare, as food, by boiling, roasting, baking, broiling, etc.; to make suitable for eating, by the agency of fire or heat.

imp. & p. p. Cooked; 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.

05 v. i. To prepare food for the table.