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Cook

To prepare food for the table.

Cookbook

A book of directions and receipts for cooking; a cookery book.

cooked-over

heated again after having cooled down; -- often used of food remaining from a previous day.

cooker

an implement for cooking.

Cookery

The art or process of preparing food for the table, by dressing, compounding, and the application of heat; cooking.

cooking

the practice or manner of preparing food or the food so prepared; cookery.

Cookmaid

A female servant or maid who dresses provisions and assists the cook.

Cookroom

A room for cookery; a kitchen; the galley or caboose of a ship.

cookstove

a stove for cooking, especially a wood- or coal-burning kitchen stove.

cookware

cooking utensils, such as pots, pans, or baking dishes made of heat-resistant material.

Cooky

A small, flat, sweetened cake of various kinds.

Cool

To become less hot; to lose heat.

coolant

a fluid (gas or liquid) used to cool a device by transferring heat away from one part to another.

cooled

made or become cool or made cool as specified; often used as a combining form; as, air-cooled auto engine; the cooled milk was put in the refrigerator.

Cooler

That which cools, or abates heat or excitement.

Coolie Cooly

An East Indian porter or carrier; a laborer transported from the East Indies, China, or Japan, for service in some other country.

Cooling

Adapted to cool and refresh; allaying heat.

Coolly

In a cool manner; without heat or excessive cold; without passion or ardor; calmly; deliberately; with indifference; impudently.

Coolness

The state of being cool; a moderate degree of cold; a moderate degree, or a want, of passion; want of ardor, zeal, or affection; calmness.

Coolung

The great gray crane of India (Grus cinerea).

Coom

Soot; coal dust; refuse matter, as the dirty grease which comes from axle boxes, or the refuse at the mouth of an oven.

Coomb

A dry measure of four bushels, or half a quarter.

Coombe Coomb

A hollow in a hillside. [Prov. Eng.] See Comb, Combe.

Coon

A raccoon. See Raccoon.

Cooncan

A game of cards derived from conquian, played by two or more players with one or two full packs of cards.

coondog

any dog trained to hunt raccoons.

coonhound

any of several breeds of hound developed for hunting raccoons.

coonskin

a cap made from the skin of a raccoon, with the tail hanging down the back; -- called also coonskin cap.

Coontie

A cycadaceous plant of Florida and the West Indies, the Zamia integrifolia, from the stems of which a kind of sago is prepared.

Coop

To confine in a coop; hence, to shut up or confine in a narrow compass; to cramp; -- usually followed by up, sometimes by in.

Cooper

To do the work of a cooper upon; as, to cooper a cask or barrel.

Cooperant

Operating together; as, cooperant forces.

Cooperate

To act or operate jointly with another or others; to concur in action, effort, or effect.

Cooperation

The act of cooperating, or of operating together to one end; joint operation; concurrent effort or labor.

Cooperator

One who labors jointly with others to promote the same end.

Coopering

Work done by a cooper in making or repairing barrels, casks, etc.; the business of a cooper.

Coordain

To ordain or appoint for some purpose along with another.

Coordinate

A thing of the same rank with another thing; one two or more persons or things of equal rank, authority, or importance.

coordinate co-ordinate

To make coordinate; to put in the same order or rank; as, to coordinate ideas in classification.

coordinated

dexterous in the use of more than one set of muscle movements.

Coordinateness

The state of being coordinate; equality of rank or authority.

Coordination

The act of coordinating; the act of putting in the same order, class, rank, dignity, etc.; as, the coordination of the executive, the legislative, and the judicial authority in forming a government; the act of regulating and combining so as to produce harmonious results; harmonious adjustment; as, a coordination of functions.

Coot

A wading bird with lobate toes, of the genus Fulica. The common European or bald coot is Fulica atra (see under bald); the American is Fulica Americana The surf duck or scoter. In the United States all the species of (/demia are called coots. See Scoter.

Cooter

A fresh-water tortoise (Pseudemus concinna) of Florida. The box tortoise.

Cootfoot

The phalarope; -- so called because its toes are like the coot's.

Coothay

A striped satin made in India.

Cop

The top of a thing; the head; a crest.

Copaiva Copaiba

A more or less viscid, yellowish liquid, the bitter oleoresin of several species of Copaifera, a genus of trees growing in South America and the West Indies. It is stimulant and diuretic, and was formerly much used in affections of the mucous membranes. It is also used in varnishes and lacquers, and in cleaning oil paintings. -- called also balsam of copaiba, copaiba balsam, balsam capivi, and Jesuits' resin.

Copalm

The yellowish, fragrant balsam yielded by the sweet gum; also, the tree itself.

Coparcenary

Partnership in inheritance; joint heirship; joint right of succession to an inheritance.

Coparcener

One who has an equal portion with others of an inheritance.

Copartner

One who is jointly concerned with one or more persons in business, etc.; a partner; an associate; a partaker; a sharer.

Copartnership

The state of being a copartner or of having a joint interest in any matter.

Copartnery

the state of being copartners in any undertaking.

Copatain

Having a high crown, or a point or peak at top.

Cope

To bargain for; to buy.

Cope-chisel

A narrow chisel adapted for cutting a groove.

Copeck

A Russian copper coin. See Kopeck.

Copeman

A chapman; a dealer; a merchant.

Copenhagen

A sweetened hot drink of spirit and beaten eggs.

Copepod

Of or pertaining to the Copepoda. One of the Copepoda.

Copepoda

An order of Entomostraca, including many minute Crustacea, both fresh-water and marine.

Copernican

Pertaining to Copernicus, a Prussian by birth (b. 1473, d. 1543), who taught the world the solar system now received, called the Copernican system.

Copesmate

An associate or companion; a friend; a partner.

copied

reproducing the features of an original especially in an inferior manner.

Copier

One who copies; one who writes or transcribes from an original; a transcriber.

Coping

The highest or covering course of masonry in a wall, often with sloping edges to carry off water; -- sometimes called capping.

Copious

Large in quantity or amount; plentiful; abundant; fruitful.

Copiousness

The state or quality of being copious; abudance; plenty; also, diffuseness in style.

Copland

A piece of ground terminating in a point or acute angle.

Copped

Rising to a point or head; conical; pointed; crested.

Copper

To cover or coat with copper; to sheathe with sheets of copper; as, to copper a ship.

Copper-bottomed

Having a bottom made of copper, as a tin boiler or other vessel, or sheathed with copper, as a ship.

Copper-faced

Faced or covered with copper; as, copper-faced type.

Copper-fastened

Fastened with copper bolts, as the planks of ships, etc.; as, a copper-fastened ship.

Copperas

Green vitriol, or sulphate of iron; a green crystalline substance, of an astringent taste, used in making ink, in dyeing black, as a tonic in medicine, etc. It is made on a large scale by the oxidation of iron pyrites. Called also ferrous sulphate.

Copperhead

A poisonous American serpent (Ancistrodon conotortrix), closely allied to the rattlesnake, but without rattles; -- called also copper-belly, and red viper.

Copperish

Containing, or partaking of the nature of, copper; like copper; as, a copperish taste.

Copperplate

A plate of polished copper on which a design or writing is engraved. An impression on paper taken from such a plate.

Coppersmith

One whose occupation is to manufacture copper utensils; a worker in copper.

Copperworm

The teredo; -- so called because it injures the bottoms of vessels, where not protected by copper. The ringworm.

Coppery

Mixed with copper; containing copper, or made of copper; like copper.

Coppice

To cause to grow in the form of a coppice; to cut back (as young timber) so as to produce shoots from stools or roots.

Copple

Something rising in a conical shape; specifically, a hill rising to a point.

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