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What's The Definition Of 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\ (k[oo^]k), v. t. [Etymol. unknown.] To throw. [Prov.Eng.] ``Cook me that ball.'' --Grose.
\Cook\ (k[oo^]k), n. [AS. c[=o]c, fr. l. cocus, coquus, coquus, fr. coquere to cook; akin to Gr. ?, 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\, v. t. [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.
\Cook\ (k[oo^]k), v. i. To prepare food for the table.