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COOK’S STRAIT, a limit in the fouthern Pacific' 
Ocean, which divides the two iflands of New Zealand, 
COOKE (Thomas), born at Braintree in Eifex, in 
J 7°7> and educated at Felded fchool in tlie fame county. 
So.early as 1726, when only nineteen, he gave the world 
a yery correct edition of Andrew Marvel’s works, with 
a life of the author prefixed. They were dedicated to 
the earl of Pembroke ; who, being much delighted with 
the abilities of fo young a writer, became a warm patron 
to him, and wrbte feveral of the notes to his t rami at ion 
of Htefiod, which he publifhed in 1728, Befides the 
above, he publifhed a tranflation of Cicero de Natura 
Deorum, and ot Terence. He prepared alfo a tranflation 
of Plautus; but has only publifhed the Amphitryon. 
He was alfo a dramatic writer, and author of five or fix 
pieces, which were not accompanied with fuccefs. But 
what is likely to preferve his name, is this : he was con. 
cerned in writing a farce called Penelope, a mock-tra¬ 
gedy ; which, though probably intended as no more 
than a burlefque drama without any particular aim, yet 
being produced upon the flage foon after the publication 
of Pope’s Homer’s OdyfTey, and conlidered as a ridicule 
of that work, expofed him to the poet’s refentment, and 
procured him a place in the Dunciad. 
COOK'ERY,yi The art of dreffing victuals : 
Some man’s wit 
Found th’ art of cookery to delight his fenfe : 
More bodies are confum’d and kill’d with it, 
Than with the fword, famine, or peflilence. Davies. 
COOL, adf \_koelen , Dut.] Somewhat cold ; approach¬ 
ing to cold.—He fet his leg in a pail-full, as hot as he 
could well endure it, renewing it as it grew cool. Temple. 
•—Not zealous j not ardent; not angry ; not fond ; with¬ 
out paflion : as, a cool friend, a cool deceiver. 
COOL, f. Freedom from heat; foft and refrefhing 
col duel's.—Philander was enjoying the cool of the morn¬ 
ing, among the dews that lay on every thing about him, 
and that gave the air a freflinefs. Addifon. 
But fee where Lucia, at her wonted hour, 
Amid tlie cool of yon high marble arch, ■ 
Enjoys the noon-day breeze. Addifon. 
To COOL, v. a. \_koelen, Dut.] To make cool; to al¬ 
lay heat.—Snow they ufe in Naples inflead of ice, be- 
caufeyas they fay, it cools or congeals any liquor fooner. 
Addifon. —Jelly of currants, or the jelly of any ripe fub- 
acid fruit, is cooling , and very agreeable to the ftomach. 
Arbuthnot. —To quiet paflion; to calm, anger ; to mode¬ 
rate zeal.—My lord Northumberland will loon be cool'd. 
ShakeJ'pcare. 
To COOL, v. n. To grow lefs hot. To grow lefs warm 
with regard to paflion or inclination.'—You never cool 
while you read Homer. Dryden. 
COO'LANY, a river of Ireland, in the county of Sligo, 
which runs in'to the Ardnaglafs bay, five miles iouth-wefl 
of Sligo. 
COOL'ER,y'. That which has the power of cooling 
the body.' —Coolers are of two forts; firft, thofe which 
produce an immediate Jenfe of cold, which are fuch as 
have their parts in lefs motion than thofe of the organs 
of feeling ; and, fecondly, fuch as, by particular vifei- 
dity, or grofihefs of parts, give a greater confidence to 
the a'nimal fluids than they had before, whereby they 
cannot move fo fall, and therefore will have lefs of 
that intefline force on which their heat depends. The 
former ‘are fruits, all acid liquors, and common water; 
and the latter are fuch as cucumbers, and all fubftances 
producing vifeidity. Quincy. —A velfel in which any 
thing is made cool.—Your firft wort being thus boiled, 
lade off into one or more coolers, or cool-backs, in which 
leave the fullage behind, and let it run off fine. Mortimer. 
COO'LIES,/ Tine lower order of people in the Eafl 
Indies, who a6t as porters or labourers. 
COOLIPOU', a poll of Chinefe Tartary: five miles 
north of Tie-ling-Hotum 
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COOL'LO, a town of Hindooftan, in the country oi 
Oriffa : thirty-nine miles fouth-wed of Cattack. 
COOL'LY, adv '. Without heat, or diarp cold : 
She in the gelid caverns, woodbine wrought, 
And freflt bedew’d with ever-fpouting dreams, 
Sits coolly calm. Thomfon. 
Without paflion.—Motives that aadrefs themfelves coolly 
to our reafon, are fitted to be employed upon reafonable 
creatures. Alter bury. 
COOL'NESS,yi Gentle cold ; a foft or mild degree 
of cold.—The toad loveth fluide and coolnefs. Bacon. 
Yonder the harved of cold months laid up, 
Gives a frefh coolnefs to the royal cup ; 
There ice, like crydals firm and never lod. 
Tempers hot July with December’s frod. Waller. 
Want of affection ; didnclination.—They parted with 
fuch coolnefs towards each other, as if they fcarce hoped 
to meet again. Clarendon —Freedom from padion. 
COOLOO'ME, an Indian town fituated on the weft; 
fide of Talapoofe river, a branch of the Mobile. 
COO'LY POINT, a cape of Ireland, at the north en¬ 
trance into Dundalk bay, on the coaft of Louth. Lat. 53. 
57. N. Ion. 6. 7. W. Greenwich. 
COOM, f. \_ccume, Fr.] Soot that gathers over an 
oven’s mouth. Phillips. —That matter that woi'ks out of 
the wheels of carriages. Bailey. —It is ufed in Scotland 
for the ufelefs dull which falls from large coals. 
COOMB, or CoMB,y. [comble , Fr. cumulus , Lat.a heap, 
Skinner. ] A meafure of corn containing four bufliels. 
Bailey. 
COOM'TAH, a town of Hindooftan, in the Berar 
country : forty-five miles north-eaft of Nagpour. 
COOP, f. [ k uype, Dut.] A barrel; a vefiel for the 
prefervation of liquids. A cage ; a pen for animals, as 
poultry or flteep.—Gracchus was dain the day the chic¬ 
kens refufed to eat out of the coop- and Claudius Pul- 
cher underwent the like fuccefs, when he contemned the 
tripudiary augurations. Brown. 
Fifli- Coop, f. A velfel of twigs ufed for fifliing in the 
Humber. 
Limc-C oop, and Muck-Coo?, f. A fort of clofe cart. 
To COOP, v. a. To dmt up in a narrow compafs; to 
condne; to cage; to imprifon: when it is ufed abfo- 
lutely, it <has often, perhaps always, the intendve par¬ 
ticle up. —The contempt of all other knowledge, as if it 
were nothing in contparifon of law or phyde, of adrology 
or chentidry, coops the underdanding itp within narrow 
bounds, and hinders it from looking abroad into other 
provinces of the intellectual world. Locke. 
One world fuffic’d not Alexander’s mind ; 
Coop'd up he feem’d, in earth and feas confin’d. Dryden. 
COOP’s TOWN, in Harford county, Maryland, lies 
twelve miles north-wed of Harford, and wenty-two north, 
eaderly of Baltimore ; meafuring in a drait line. 
COO'PA, a town of Perda, in the province of Irak : 
thirty miles ead-north-ead of Ifpahan. 
COOPE'E,_/i \_coupe, Fr.] A motion in dancing. 
COO'PER,/. One that makes coops or barrels.—So¬ 
cieties of artificers and tradefmen, belonging to fome 
towns corporate, fuch as weavers and coopers, by virtue 
of their charters, pretend to privilege and jurifdiction. 
Child. 
The art of the cooper appears to be of great antiquity, 
and to have very early attained to all the perfection which 
it polfefles at prefent. But, notwithdanding the antiquity 
of the art of .cajk-building, there are fome countries in 
which even now it is wholly unknown; and others where, 
though it is fufficiently known, yet, from the fcarcity of 
wood or fome other caule, earthen velfels, and Ikins lined 
with pitch, are preferred to wooden barrels for the hold¬ 
ing and tranfporting of liquors. The Latin word dolium , 
which we tranflate a cajk, was employed by the Ro¬ 
mans to denote earthen velfels ufed for this purpofe; 
though 
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