cook 
[The brook] whiles flitter . I to the nightly rays, 
\Vi' birki'l'ill . dlineill da/Ylc , 
\Miik, ..',, i midi'i-ncaih the hrnei, 
Below tin' prc:idillg llu/el, 
, Hi.. i muiii. /.'./(-, BcUowMO. 
COOk 1 (ki'ik), r. I. Siiini- as rwr/,-1. 
cook-book (kuk'buk), . A book containing 
recipes anil instructions for cooking. [U. 8.] 
Those minute direction* whirh were snoi'ten wniitini: 
in i-i:i'( /.mi/.-.'. I'urluil, Cuuk-Bouk, 1'ref. 
cook-conner (kuk'kun'er), . [< cook (appli- 
cation not clear) + 0MMUI*. Of. O 
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Carry her to her chamber : 
lie that barprtnn, till In cooler hlood 
I shall determine of her. 
Jfattinger, Roman Actor, Iv. 2. 
While she wept. and I strove to be cool, 
He fiercely gave me the lie. 
TVnni/iwn, Maud, xxlil. 
5. Not hasty ; deliberate : as, a cool purpose. 
Lovers and madmen have MH-II - I'thing brains, 
such shaping fantasies, that apprehend 
More than <"! reason ever comprehends. 
Shak., M. X. D.,v. 1. 
oiuiii' iis i-n,il;-irraase. 
COOkee (kuk'e), . L< l "" / - ' + - ccl as in coachee, 
etc.] 1. A female cook. [Colloq.] 2. A 
male assistant to a male cook, as in a lumber- 
11-' camp. [Local, U. S.] 
COOkeite (kuk'it), . [Named after J. P. Cooke, 
of Harvard College.] A variety of lithium 
mica, occurring in minute scales on rubellite 
at Hebron in the State of Maine, 
cookery (kiikY-ri), H.; pi. <W.vnY* (-riz). [< 
M E. cokerie (="l >. kukirij = U\. kiikeric) ; < coofcl 
+ -ery.'] 1. The art or practice of cooking and 
dressing food for the table. 
The curate turned up his coat-cuffs, and applied himself 
to the cookery with vigor. tVim-M/.' /;/../<?., Shirley, ti. 
2. A place for cooking or preparing meats r etc. ; 
in the quotation, a place for trying out oil. 
Formerly the Dutch did try out their train-oyl in S]iit/ 
bergcTi, at 'sineercnhem. and about the Cookery of Harlin- 
gen. Quoted in V. .'/. .s'riimi/iini' Marine Mammals, p. 200. 
3f. A cooked dish ; a made dish ; a dainty. 
His appetite was gone, and cookfrien were provided in 
order to tempt his palate. 
Roger North, Lord Gullford, II. 205. 
4f. Material for cooking. 
There are estemed to bee |tn Cairo] 15000. lewes. 10- 
000. Cookes which carry their Cookerie and nolle It as they 
goe. Purchat, Pilgrimage, p. 588. 
cookey, . See cooky. 
cook-house (kuk'hous), . An erection on a 
coolness 
ter, or cold air. It may be a larue douhle skinned jar 
in which icl water U tiiriounded h> a ndaotfag 
material, a tub in whii-h I mil In are paeked in lirnken i'-e, 
an iie i hamlier th ^liwlili'ha lii|iliii N ranged to pas* 
In, a mil of |ii|K-, a pan with a falne Initlom hern-alb which 
Uplaci'i Icaoradi tallowwtta 
which the hi-aled liquid I- UPO* 'I I" III- an, ',1 ali> kill 
ili'i-il ilt'Ure. Surh u rontrivaiu'r, iise'l fur cooluig wnrt, 
heer lne. milk, r other lii|llid, is sometime, leimed a 
HraU-wobr, ami OM lor cooling water is speciltcally 
rallnl a " <>' i < >der. 
3. A jail. [Thieves' slang.] 
cooley, >i. A corruption of coulee. 
" Not easily ex- 
6. Manifesting coldness, apathy, or dislike: cool-headed (kol'hed'ed), a. Not easily ex- 
chilling; frigid: as,acmanner. 7. Uuietly cited or confused; possessing clear and calm 
impudent, defiant, or selfish; deliberately pre- judgment; not acting hastily or rashly, 
suming: said of persons and acts. [Colloq.] The old, cool-headed general law Isaa good a* any devla- 
That struck me as rather cool. Punch, tlon dictated by pre, '"'-';,.,,,. ,,, , BrllU)L 
8. Absolute; without qualification; round: used coo u e C ooly'-' (ko'li), n. and a. [Anglo-Ind.; 
in 8 p eak | m JJ )f _ a _ 8um _ \, money, ^generally a a , go wr j ttcn coolee, < Beng., Canarese, Malaya- 
lam, Telugu, Tamil, etc., kali. Ilimi. '/fill, aday- 
la borer; orig. Tamil, where it means also 'daily 
hire ' ; cf. kiiliydt, a day-laborer. According to 
Fal Ion, orig. Turki quit ; he derives it, in a 
variant form, koli, from kol, semi. In another 
view, originally a member of a hill tribe of 
Bengal, called Kolis or Kolas, who were much 
large sum, by way of emphasizing the amount 
[Colloq.] 
I would pit her for a cool hundred. 
HmMett, Humphrey Clinker, L M. 
"AeooZ four thousand.". . . I never discovered from whom 
Joe derived the conventional temperature of the four thou- 
sand pounds, but it appeared to make the sum of money 
more to him and he had a manifest relish in insisting mi , 
ita being cool. li^-kent, Great Expectations, Ivii. employed as laborers and in menial services.] 
A cool hand. See hand.- Cool as a cucumber. See I. H. A name given by Europeans in India, 
cucumber. =8yn. _4. composed, Collected, etc. (see caZ/nij, (;hina, etc., to a native laborer employed as a 
dispassionate, self-possessed, unruffled, undisturbed. 6. 
Unconcerned, lukewarm, Indifferent ; cold-blooded, repel- 
lent. 
burden-carrier, porter, stevedore, etc., or in 
other menial work: as, a chair-coo/tr, a house- 
(k81), n. [< cooli, a.] A moderate or re- coolie-, hence, in Africa, the West Indies, South 
cookie, w. See cooky. 
cookisn (kuk'ish), a. [< cook* + -tsfti.] Like a 
cook. 
I cannot abide a man that's too fond over me so cook- 
ish. Middleton and Dekker, Hearing Girl, lit 2. 
cook-maid (kuk'mad). n. A maid or female ser- 
vant who dresses food ; an assistant to a cook. 
cook-room (kuk'rom), H. A room for cookery ; 
a kitchen ; in ships, a galley or caboose. 
cook-wrasse (kuk'ras), n. [< coofc (application 
not clear) + wrasse. Cf. cook-conner.'} An Eng- 
lish name of the striped wrasse, Labrus mixtus. 
Also called cook-conner. 
cooky (kuk'i), .; pi. cookies (-iz). [Also writ- 
ten cookey, cookie; < D. koekje, dim. of. koek, a 
cake : see cake 1 ."] A small, flat, sweet cake : 
also used locally for small cakes of various 
other forms, with or without sweetening. 
He's lost every hoof and hide, I'll bet a cookey ! 
Bret llarte, Luck of Roaring Camp. 
cool 1 (kol), a. [< ME. cool, cole, col, < AS. col 
(= D. koel LG. kol = OHG. chuoli, MHG. 
kucle, G. kiihl = Dan. kdl), cool, < calan (pret. 
"col, pp. calen) = Icel. kala, be cold (a strong 
verb, of which eeald, E. cold, is an old pp. adj.) ; 
akin to L. gelus, gclu, cold, frost, gelidtis, cold, 
i/elitre, freeze (see cold, chilli, gelid, gelatin, con- 
geal, jelly); OBulg. golottt, ice.] 1. Moderate- 
ly cold ; being of a temperature neither warm 
nor very cold : as, cool air ; cool water. 
Suri't il:iv. MI en"/, so calm, so bright, 
The bridal of the earth and sky. 
G. Herbert, Virtue. 
Fresh-wash'd in coolest dew. Tennyton, Fair Women. 
See, as I linger here, the sun grows low ; 
Cool airs are murmuring that the night is near. 
Bryant, Conqueror's Grave. 
2. Having a slight or not intense sensation of 
cold. See cold, n., 3. 3. Not producing heat 
or warmth; permitting or imparting a sensa- 
tion of coolness; allowing coolness, especially 
by facilitating radiation of heat or access of cool 
air, or by intercepting radiated heat: as, a cool 
dress. 
I'nder the cool shade of a sycamore. Shak., L. L. L.,v. 2. 
The British soldier conquered under the cool shade of 
aristocracy. .Yi</nVr, Peninsular War. 
In figurative uses: 4. Not excited or heated 
bv passion of any kind ; without ardor or visi- 
ble emotion; calm; unmoved: as, a cool tem- 
per ; a cooJ lover. 
o m'ntle son, 
I'jMin the heat and flame ot thy distemper 
Sprinkle emit patience. Shak., Hamlet, iii. 4. 
79 
America, and other places, an East Indian or 
Chinese laborer who is employed, under con- 
tract, on a plantation or in other work. 
Whole regiments of sinewy, hollow-thighed, lanky coolie* 
shuffle along under loads of chairs, tables, hampersof beer 
and wine, bazaar stores, or boxes slung from bamboo poles 
across their shoulders. 
W. //. Russell, Diary In India, I. 229. 
H. o. Of or pertaining to coolies or a coolie, 
Tennyton, Gardener's Daughter. og p ec j a liy when under contract for service out 
. colen, become cool, trans. o f his own country: as, coolie labor; the cooHe 
trade. 
[The gentleman] had purchased large estates between 
Santos and San Paulo, which he had determined U> work 
with slave instead of coolie labour. 
Lady Brassey, Voyage of Sunbeam, I. iv. 
freshing state of cold; moderate temperature 
of the air between hot and cold. 
The same euynnynge the wynde began to blowe a ryght 
good coole in oure waye. 
Sir R. (fuylforde, Pylgrymage, p. 72. 
The Lord God walking In the garden in the cool of the 
day. Gen. lit 8. 
One warm gust, full-fed with perfume, blew 
Beyond us, as we entered in the cool. 
kiihlen = Dan. kdle = Sw. kyla), become cool, 
< col, cool : see ooofl, a., and cf. fccei 2 .] I. trans. 
I. To make cool or cold ; reduce the tempera- 
ture of : as, ice cools water. 
We talk'd : the stream beneath us ran, 
The wine-ttask lying couch'd in moss, 
Or cool'd within the glooming wave. 
Tennymn, In Meniorlam, Ixxxix. 
Coolie Orange, the Citrus aurantium, or common orange, 
cooling (klrliug), 7). a. [Ppr. of coo/l, r.] Adapt- 
ed to cool and refresh : as, a cooling drink. 
The cooling brook. Goldmiith, Des. Vil., L 360. 
Cooling card*. Seecardl. 
2. To allay the warmth or heated feeling of ; cooling-cup (ko'ling-kup), i. A vessel, con- 
impart a sensation of coolness to; cause to feel sjgting of a cylindrical cup into which another 
conical cup may be plunged, used for reducing 
the temperature of liquids. The liquid is placed 
in the outer vessel, and a solution of nitrate of ammonia 
, 
In the inner. The chemical action of the solution ab- 
sorbs the heat of the surrounding liquid, and thus lowers 
its temperature. 
cool. 
Send Lazarus, that he may dip the tip of his finger in 
water, and cool my tongue. Luke xvi. 24. 
3. To abate the ardor or intensity of; allay, as 
passion or strong emotion of any kind ; calm, _ ._. 
as anger ; moderate, as desire, zeal, or ardor ; cooling-floor (k6'ling-flor). . A large shallow 
j__ ;_js.* wooden tank in which wort is cooled. E. H. 
Knight. 
:ooliy (kol'li), adv. 1. Without heat; with a 
moderate degree of cold: as, the wind blew 
coolly through the trees. 2. With a moderate 
sensation of cold. 
render indifferent. 
My lord Northumberland will soon lie cool'd. 
Shot., 2 Hen. IV., Ui. 1. 
Disputing and delay here cools the courage. 
Fletcher, Bonduca, i. 2. 
4f. To mitigate To cool one's coppers. See cop- 
per, 3. To COOl the heels, to wait in attendance : gen- 
erally applied to detention at a great man's door. 
I looked through the key-hole and saw him knocking at 
the gate ; and I had the conscience to let him cool hit heels 
there. Dryden, Amphitryon, i. 2. 
II. intrans. 1. To become cool ; become less 
hot ; lose heat. 
Come, who is next? our liquor here cools. 
B. Jonson, Entertainment at Highgate. 
2. To lose the heat of excitement, passion, or 
emotion; become less ardent, angry, zealous, 
affectionate, etc. ; become more moderate. 
My humour shall not cool. Sliak., M. W. of W., i. 3. 
Great friend and servant of the good, 
Let cool a while thy heated blood, 
And from thy mighty labour cease. 
They may walke there very coolely even at noon, In the 
very hottest of all the canicular days. 
Coryat, Crudities, I. 192. 
3. Without haste or passion; calmly; deliber- 
ately: as, the design was formed cooWy and 
executed with firmness. 
When the matter comes to be considered Impartially 
and iW/ their faults. . . will admit of much alleviation. 
Bp. Uurd, Foreign Travel, Dial. 8. 
4. In a cool or indifferent manner; not cor- 
dially ; carelessly ; disrespectfully : as, he was 
coolly received at court. 5. With quiet pre- 
sumption or impudence ; nonchalantly ; im- 
pudently: as, he coolly took the best for him- 
self. 
JJ. Jonson, Pleasure Reconciled to Virtue, g^^gg (kol'nes), n. 1. A moderate degree 
nils eccentric friendship was fast cooling. Never had o f ^jj . a temperature between cold and heat : 
there met two persons so %*^;^gg as, the coolness of the summer's evening. 2. 
,o A moderate or refreshing sensation of cold. 
COOl-t, . An obsolete spelling of cole*. 
COOl-CUD (kol'kup), . A cooling beverage. We supped on the top of the house for coolness, accord- 
wuuj. v.uj v /, __ , .o, , ing to their custom. 
Pocockr, Description of the East, II. i. 69. 
cooler (kS'ler), n. 1. That which cools; any- 
thing that abates heat or excitement. 
j e toij me that his affliction from his wife stirred him 
up to action abroad, and when success tempted him to 
" iS '""*"" 
. was a cooler 
Weary to bed. after having my hair of my head cut 
shorter, even close to my skull, for coolnrs*, it being 
mighty hot weather. Diary. II. :i74. 
3. Absence of mental confusion or excitement ; 
limited in' tt'iiithnip's Hist. New England, 1. 78. clearness of judgment and calmness of action, 
Acid things were used only as coolers. particularly in an emergency : as, the safety 
Arbuthnot, Aliments. o f t ne party depended on his eon! 
2. Any vessel or apparatus for cooling liquids A cavalier possessed of the coolneM and address requi- 
or other things, by the agency of ice, cold wa- site for diplomatic success. Prexott, Ker.l. an 
