cookeite

[Named after Mr. Cooke, an American mineralogist.] Min.: A white or yellowish-green flexible mineral, occurring in minute scales, and in slender, sometimes vermicularly bent, six-sided prisms. The hardne is 25, the specific gravity 2.7. Its luster on the planes of cleavage is pearly. Composition: Silica, 34-93; alumina, 44-91; lithia, 2.82; pota a, 2.57; and water, 13:41, with a trace of oxide of iron. It is found at Hebron and Paris, in the State of Maine. (Dana. ) *cooke'-lý, adv . [Eng. cook ; -ly .] Like a cook; with the art or skill of a cook. cook'-er-ў, *cok-er-ie, s. [Eng. cook; -ery.] I. Literally: 1. The act of cooking or dre ing food for the table. IMG:content-0880.png:[blocks in formation] cookeries were provided in order to tempt his palate."-North: Life of Ld. Guilford , ii. 205. (Davies.) II. Fig .: The act of dre ing anything up, as news, accounts, ., so as to present a false appear ance; garbling, falsifying, tampering with. ". that art of cookery, which our brother newsmongers so much excel in."- Tatler, No. 11.