Cookbook Cook"book` (-bok`)
noun A book of directions and receipts for cooking; a cookery book. [ U.S.]
"Just How": a key to the cookbooks .
Mrs. A. D. T. Whitney.
Cookee Cook·ee" (kok*ē")
noun A female cook. [ R.]
Cookery Cook"er·y (kok"ẽr*ȳ)
noun 1. The art or process of preparing food for the table, by dressing, compounding, and the application of heat. 2. A delicacy; a dainty. [ Obsolete]
R. North.
Cookey, Cookie Cook"ey, Cook"ie noun See Cooky .
Cookmaid Cook"maid` noun A female servant or maid who dresses provisions and assists the cook.
Cookroom Cook"room` noun A room for cookery; a kitchen; the galley or caboose of a ship. Sir W. Raleigh.
Cookshop Cook`shop noun An eating house. "A subterranean
cookshop ."
Macaulay.
Cooky Cook"y noun ;
plural Cookies . [ Confer Dutch
koek cake, dim.
koekje ; akin to German
kuchen , English
cake ; or confer Middle English
coket , probably , a sort of cake, and probably of French origin.]
A small, flat, sweetened cake of various kinds.
Cool Cool adjective [
Compar. Cooler ;
superl. Coolest .] [ Anglo-Saxon
cōl ; akin to Dutch
koel , German
kühl , Old High German chouli, Danish
kölig , Swedish
kylig , also to Anglo-Saxon
calan to be cold, Icelandic
kala . See
Cold , and confer
Chill .]
1. Moderately cold; between warm and cold; lacking in warmth; producing or promoting coolness. Fanned with cool winds.
Milton.
2. Not ardent, warm, fond, or passionate; not hasty; deliberate; exercising self-control; self-possessed; dispassionate; indifferent; as, a cool lover; a cool debater. For a patriot, too cool .
Goldsmith.
3. Not retaining heat; light; as, a cool dress. 4. Manifesting coldness or dislike; chilling; apathetic; as, a cool manner. 5. Quietly impudent; negligent of propriety in matters of minor importance, either ignorantly or willfully; presuming and selfish; audacious; as, cool behavior. Its cool stare of familiarity was intolerable.
Hawthorne.
6. Applied facetiously, in a vague sense, to a sum of money, commonly as if to give emphasis to the largeness of the amount. He had lost a cool hundred.
Fielding.
Leaving a cool thousand to Mr. Matthew Pocket.
Dickens.
Syn. -- Calm; dispassionate; self-possessed; composed; repulsive; frigid; alienated; impudent.
Cool Cool noun A moderate state of cold; coolness; -- said of the temperature of the air between hot and cold; as, the cool of the day; the cool of the morning or evening.
Cool Cool transitive verb [
imperfect & past participle Cooled ;
present participle & verbal noun Cooling .]
1. To make cool or cold; to reduce the temperature of; as, ice cools water. Send Lazarus, that he may dip the tip of his finger in water, and cool my tongue.
Luke xvi. 24.
2. To moderate the heat or excitement of; to allay, as passion of any kind; to calm; to moderate. We have reason to cool our raging motions, our carnal stings, our unbitted lusts.
Shak.
To cool the heels ,
to dance attendance; to wait, as for admission to a patron's house. [ Colloq.]
Dryden.
Cool Cool intransitive verb 1. To become less hot; to lose heat. I saw a smith stand with his hammer, thus,
the whilst his iron did on the anvil cool .
Shak.
2. To lose the heat of excitement or passion; to become more moderate. I will not give myself liberty to think, lest I should cool .
Congreve.
Cool-headed Cool"-head`ed adjective Having a temper not easily excited; free from passion. --
Cool"- head`ed*ness ,
noun
Cooler Cool"er noun That which cools, or abates heat or excitement. if acid things were used only as coolers , they would not be so proper in this case.
Arbuthnot.
2. Anything in or by which liquids or other things are cooled, as an ice chest, a vessel for ice water, etc.
Coolie Coo"lie noun Same as Cooly .
Cooling Cool"ing p. adjective Adapted to cool and refresh; allaying heat. "The
cooling brook."
Goldsmith. Cooling card ,
something that dashes hopes. [ Obsolete] --
Cooling time (Law) ,
such a lapse of time as ought, taking all the circumstances of the case in view, to produce a subsiding of passion previously provoked. Wharton.
Coolish Cool"ish adjective Somewhat cool. The nights began to grow a little coolish .
Goldsmith.
Coolly Cool"ly adjective Coolish; cool. [ Obsolete]
Spenser.
Coolly Cool"ly adverb In a cool manner; without heat or excessive cold; without passion or ardor; calmly; deliberately; with indifference; impudently.
Coolness Cool"ness noun 1. 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. 2. Calm impudence; self-possession. [ Colloq.]
Coolung Coo"lung noun [ From the native name.]
(Zoology) The great gray crane of India ( Grus cinerea ). [ Also written
coolen and
cullum .]
Cooly, Coolie Coo"ly, Coo"lie noun ;
plural Coolies . [ Hind.
k...lī a laborer, porter: confer Turk.
k...l ,
ky...leh , slave.]
An East Indian porter or carrier; a laborer transported from the East Indies, China, or Japan, for service in some other country.
Coom Coom noun [ Confer German
kahm mold gathered on liquids, Dutch
kam , Swedish
kimrök pine soot, smoke black, Icelandic
kām grime, film of dirt.]
Soot; coal dust; refuse matter, as the dirty grease which comes from axle boxes, or the refuse at the mouth of an oven. Phillips. Bailey.
Coomb Coomb noun [ Anglo-Saxon
cumb a liquid measure, perhaps from Late Latin
cumba boat, tomb of stone, from Greek ... hollow of a vessel, cup, boat, but confer German
kumpf bowl.]
A dry measure of four bushels, or half a quarter. [ Written also
comb .]
Coomb, Coombe Coomb, Coombe noun [ See
Comb ,
Combe , in this sense.]
A hollow in a hillside. [ Prov. Eng.] See Comb , Combe .
Coon Coon noun (Zoology) A raccoon. See Raccoon .
Cooncan Coon"can noun [ Corrupt of
conquian .]
A game of cards derived from conquian, played by two or more players with one or two full packs of cards.
Coontie Coon"tie noun (Botany) A cycadaceous plant of Florida and the West Indies, the Zamia integrifolia , from the stems of which a kind of sago is prepared.
Coop Coop (kōp)
noun [ Confer Anglo-Saxon
cypa a measure, Dutch
kuip tub, Icelandic
kupa bowl, German
kufe coop tub; all from Latin
cupa vat, tub, Late Latin
cupa ,
copa , cup. See
Cup , and confer
Keeve .]
1. A barrel or cask for liquor. [ Obsolete]
Johnson. 2. An inclosure for keeping small animals; a pen; especially, a grated box for confining poultry. 3. A cart made close with boards; a tumbrel. [ Scotch]
Coop Coop transitive verb [
imperfect & past participle Cooped ;
present participle & verbal noun Cooping .]
To confine in a coop; hence, to shut up or confine in a narrow compass; to cramp; -- usually followed by up , sometimes by in . The Trojans cooped within their walls so long.
Dryden.
The contempt of all other knowledge . . . coops the understanding up within narrow bounds.
Locke.
2. To work upon in the manner of a cooper. [ Obsolete] "Shaken tubs . . . be new
cooped ."
Holland. Syn. -- To crowd; confine; imprison.
Coopee Coo·pee" (kō*pē")
noun See Coupe . [ Obsolete],
Johnson.
Cooper Coop"er (kop"ẽr; 277)
noun [ From
Coop .]
One who makes barrels, hogsheads, casks, etc.
Cooper Coop"er transitive verb [
imperfect & past participle Coopered ;
present participle & verbal noun Coopering .]
To do the work of a cooper upon; as, to cooper a cask or barrel.
Cooperage Coop"er·age noun 1. Work done by a cooper. 2. The price paid for coopers' work. 3. A place where coopers' work is done.
Coopering Coop"er·ing noun Work done by a cooper in making or repairing barrels, casks, etc.; the business of a cooper.
Coopery Coop"er·y adjective Relating to a cooper; coopered. [ Obsolete]
Coopery vessels made of wood.
Holland.
Coopery Coop"er·y noun The occupation of a cooper. Crabb.
Coot Coot (kōt)
noun [ Confer Dutch
koet , W.
cwtair ;
cwta short, bodtailed +
iar hen; confer
cwtau to dock. Confer
Cut .]
1. (Zoology) (a) A wading bird with lobate toes, of the genus Fulica . The common European or bald coot is
F. atra (see under
bald ); the American is
F. Americana .
(b) The surf duck or scoter. In the United States all the species of ( Œdemia are called coots. See Scoter . "As simple as a
coot ."
Halliwell. 2. A stupid fellow; a simpleton; as, a silly coot . [ Colloq.]
Cooter Coot"er (-ẽr)
noun (Zoology) (a) A fresh-water tortoise ( Pseudemus concinna ) of Florida. (b) The box tortoise.
Cootfoot Coot"foot` (-fot`)
noun (Zoology) The phalarope; -- so called because its toes are like the coot's.
Coothay Coo·thay" (kō*thā")
noun A striped satin made in India. McElrath.
Cop Cop (kŏp)
noun [ Anglo-Saxon
cop ; confer German
kopf head. Confer
Cup ,
Cob .]
1. The top of a thing; the head; a crest. [ Obsolete]
Cop they used to call
The tops of many hills.
Drayton.
2. A conical or conical-ended mass of coiled thread, yarn, or roving, wound upon a spindle, etc. 3. A tube or quill upon which silk is wound. 4. (Mil. Arch.) Same as Merlon . 5. A policeman. [ Slang]
Cop waste ,
a kind of cotton waste, composed chiefly of remnants of cops from which the greater part of the yarn has been unwound.
Cop-rose Cop-rose` noun [ French
coprose , of uncertain origin; confer Dutch
klaproos ,
klapperroos .]
The red, or corn, poppy. [ Written also
cup-rose .]
Copaiba Co·pai"ba (?; 277),
Co*pai"va noun [ Spanish & Portuguese , from Brazil.
cupaúba .]
(Medicine) 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 is much used in affections of the mucous membranes; -- called also balsam of copaiba . [ Written also
capivi .]
Copal Co"pal (kō"p a l; 277), [ Spanish , from Mexican copalli , a generic name of resins. Clavigero .] A resinous substance flowing spontaneously from trees of Zanzibar, Madagascar, and South America ( Trachylobium Hornemannianum , T. verrucosum , and Hymenæa Courbaril ), and dug from earth where forests have stood in Africa; -- used chiefly in making varnishes. Ure.
Copalm Co"palm` noun The yellowish, fragrant balsam yielded by the sweet gum; also, the tree itself.
Coparcenary Co·par"ce·na·ry (ko*pär"se*na*rȳ)
noun ;
plural Coparcenaries (-rĭz). [ Prefix
co- +
parcenary ]
(Law) Partnership in inheritance; joint heirship; joint right of succession to an inheritance.
Coparcener Co·par"ce·ner (-nẽr)
noun [ Prefix
co- +
parcener .]
(Law) One who has an equal portion with others of an inheritance. All the coparceners together make but one heir, and have but one estate among them.
Blackstone.
Coparceny Co·par"ce·ny noun [ Abbrev. of
Coparcenary .]
(Law) An equal share of an inheritance.
Copart Co·part transitive verb [ Confer
Compart ]
To share. [ Obsolete]
For, of all miserias, I hold that chief
Wretched to be, when none coparts our grief.
Webster (1661).
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