Cook /(ko͡ok)/

1. To make the noise of the cuckoo. [Obs. or R.]

   Constant cuckoos cook on every side.

1. To throw. [Prov.Eng.]

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.)

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.

1. To prepare food for the table.