Cook

02319 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. mark [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.
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