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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun The art or practice of preparing food.
  • noun A place for cooking.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun The art or practice of cooking and dressing food for the table.
  • noun A place for cooking or preparing meats, etc.; in the quotation, a place for trying out oil.
  • noun A cooked dish; a made dish; a dainty.
  • noun Material for cooking.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun The art or process of preparing food for the table, by dressing, compounding, and the application of heat; cooking.
  • noun obsolete A delicacy; a dainty.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun The art and practice of preparing food for consumption, especially by the application of heat; cooking.
  • noun obsolete A delicacy; a dainty.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun the act of preparing something (as food) by the application of heat

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