cookeite (kukit)

[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 (kük'e-ri), n.; pl. cookeries (-riz). [ The curate turned up his coat-cuffs, and applied himself to the cookery with vigor. Charlotte Bronte , Shirley, ii. 2. A place for cooking or preparing meats, etc.; in the quotation, a place for trying out oil. Formerly the Dutch did try out their train-oyl in Spitz bergen, at Smeerenberg, and about the Cookery of Harlin gen. Quoted in C. M. Scammon's Marine Mammals, p. 200. 31. A cooked dish; a made dish; a dainty. His appetite was gone, and cookeries were provided in order to tempt his palate. Roger North , Lord Guilford, II. 205. 41. Material for cooking. There are estemed to bee [in Cairo] 15000. Iewes. 10000. Cookes which carry their Cookerie and boile it as they goe. Purchas , Pilgrimage, p. 588. Lovers and madmen have such seething brains, Such shaping fantasies, that apprehend More than cool reason ever comprehends. Shak ., M. N. D., v. 1. 6. Manifesting coldne , apathy, or dislike; chilling; frigid: as, a cool manner.-7. Quietly impudent, defiant, or selfish; deliberately presuming: said of persons and acts. [Colloq.] That struck me as rather cool . Punch . 8. Absolute; without qualification; round: used in speaking of a sum of money, generally a large sum, by way of emphasizing the amount. [Colloq.] I would pit her for a cool hundred. Smollett , Humphrey Clinker, i. 58. "A cool four you sand."... I never discovered from whom Joe derived the conventional temperature of the four you sand pounds, but it appeared to make the sum of money more to him, and he had a manifest relish in insisting on its being cool. Dickens, Great Expectations, lvii. A cool hand. See hand. - Cool as a cucumber. See cucumber. =Syn. 4. Composed, Collected, etc. (see calm1 ), dispa ionate, self-po e ed, unruffled, undisturbed.-6. Unconcerned, lukewarm, indifferent; cold-blooded, repel lent.