Cook

v. i.	1.	To make the noise of the cuckoo. Constant cuckoos cook on every side. - The Silkworms (1599).
v. t.	1.	To throw.
n.	1.	One whose occupation is to prepare food for the table; one who dresses or cooks meat or vegetables for eating.
	2.	(Zool.) A fish, the European striped wrasse.
v. t.	1.	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 (kŎkt); p. pr & vb. n. Cooking.]
	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. 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.
v. i.	1.	To prepare food for the table.

Noun	1.	cook - someone who cooks food
	2.	Cook - English navigator who claimed the east coast of Australia for Britain and discovered several Pacific islands (1728-1779) Synonyms: Captain Cook, Captain James Cook, James Cook
Verb	1.	cook - prepare a hot meal; "My husband doesn't cook"
	2.	cook - prepare for eating by applying heat; "Cook me dinner, please"; "can you make me an omelette?"; "fix breakfast for the guests, please" Synonyms: ready, prepare, fix, make
	3.	cook - transform and make suitable for consumption by heating; "These potatoes have to cook for 20 minutes"
	4.	cook - transform by heating; "The apothecary cooked the medicinal mixture in a big iron kettle"
	5.	cook - fake or falsify; "Fudge the figures"; "cook the books"; "falsify the data" Synonyms: fudge, fake, falsify, misrepresent, wangle, manipulate

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