Word Meanings - COCKALEEKIE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A favorite soup in Scotland, made from a capon highly seasoned, and boiled with leeks and prunes.

Related words: (words related to COCKALEEKIE)

• FAVORITE
  Short curls dangling over the temples; -- fashionable in the reign of Charles II. Farquhar. (more info) p.p. of OF. favorir, cf. It. favorito, frm. favorita, fr. favorire to 1. A person or thing regarded with peculiar favor; one treated with
• BOILED
  Dressed or cooked by boiling; subjected to the action of a boiling liquid; as, boiled meat; a boiled dinner; boiled clothes.
• BOILARY
  See BOILERY
• HIGHLY
  In a high manner, or to a high degree; very much; as, highly esteemed.
• SEASONER
  One who, or that which, seasons, or gives a relish; a seasoning.
• SEASONAL
  Of or pertaining to the seasons. Seasonal dimorphism , the condition of having two distinct varieties which appear at different seasons, as certain species of butterflies in which the spring brood differs from the summer or autumnal brood.
• CAPONIZE
  To castrate, as a fowl.
• CAPON
  A castrated cock, esp. when fattened; a male chicken gelded to improve his flesh for the table. Shak. The merry thought of a capon. W. Irving.
• BOILING
  Heated to the point of bubbling; heaving with bubbles; in tumultuous agitation, as boiling liquid; surging; seething; swelling with heat, ardor, or passion. Boiling point, the temperature at which a fluid is converted into vapor, with the phenomena
• CAPONET
  A young capon. Chapman.
• SEASONLESS
  Without succession of the seasons.
• BOIL
  a bubbling motion, from bulla bubble; akin to Gr. , Lith. bumbuls. 1. To be agitated, or tumultuously moved, as a liquid by the generation and rising of bubbles of steam , or of currents produced by heating it to the boiling point; to be in a
• SEASONAGE
  A seasoning. outh.
• CAPONIERE
  A work made across or in the ditch, to protect it from the enemy, or to serve as a covered passageway. (more info) cage for fattening capons, hence, a place of refuge; cf. It.
• BOILERY
  A place and apparatus for boiling, as for evaporating brine in salt making.
• SEASONABLE
  Occurring in good time, in due season, or in proper time for the purpose; suitable to the season; opportune; timely; as, a seasonable supply of rain. Mercy is seasonable in the time of affliction. Ecclus. xxxv. 20. -- Sea"son*a*ble*ness,
• SEASONING
  1. The act or process by which anything is seasoned. 2. That which is added to any species of food, to give it a higher relish, as salt, spices, etc.; a condiment. 3. Hence, something added to enhance enjoyment or relieve dullness; as, wit is the
• SEASON
  fr. L. satio a sowing, a planting, fr. serere, satum, to sow, plant; 1. One of the divisions of the year, marked by alternations in the length of day and night, or by distinct conditions of temperature, moisture, etc., caused mainly by the relative
• BOILINGLY
  With boiling or ebullition. And lakes of bitumen rise boiling higher. Byron.
• BOILER
  A strong metallic vessel, usually of wrought iron plates riveted together, or a composite structure variously formed, in which steam is generated for driving engines, or for heating, cooking, or other purposes. Note: The earliest steam boilers were
• OVERBOIL
  To boil over or unduly. Nor is discontent to keep the mind Deep in its fountain, lest it overboil In the hot throng. Byron.
• IMBOIL
  See EMBOIL
• NATAL BOIL
  = Aleppo boil.
• ALEPPO BOIL; ALEPPO BUTTON; ALEPPO EVIL
  A chronic skin affection terminating in an ulcer, most commonly of the face. It is endemic along the Mediterranean, and is probably due to a specific bacillus. Called also Aleppo ulcer, Biskara boil, Delhi boil, Oriental sore, etc.
• PARBOIL
  through + bouillir to boil, L. bullire. The sense has been 1. To boil or cook thoroughly. B. Jonson. 2. To boil in part; to cook partially by boiling.
• LANCASHIRE BOILER
  . A steam boiler having two flues which contain the furnaces and extend through the boiler from end to end.
• BISKARA BOIL; BISKARA BUTTON
  See BOIL