Kosher

5 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Kosher \Ko"sher\, a. [heb. kosh["e]r fit, proper.]
     1. Ceremonially clean, according to Jewish law; -- applied to
        food, esp. to meat of animals slaughtered according to the
        requirements of Jewish law. Opposed to {tref}. For food to
        be officially kosher, it must be certified fit to eat by a
        Rabbi, according to Jewish ritual law; as, kosher food.


        Hence, designating a shop, store, house, etc., where such
        food is sold or used; as, a kosher restaurant.
  
     Syn: cosher, ritually fit, sanctioned.
          [Webster 1913 Suppl.]
  
     2. Hence: Proper; seemly; appropriate; legitimate; as, it's
        not kosher to do it that way. [colloq.]
        [PJC]
  
     3. Genuine. [colloq.]
        [PJC]

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Kosher \Ko"sher\, n.
     Kosher food; also, a kosher shop.
     [Webster 1913 Suppl.]
  
     2. the practise of adherence to the Jewish ritual law; used
        mostly in the phrase
  
     {keep kosher}, v. i..
        [PJC]
  
     {keep kosher} To adhere to the rules for eating only kosher
        food and handling it properly.
        [PJC]

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Kosher \Ko"sher\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Koshered}; p. pr. & vb.
     n. {Koshering}.]
     To prepare in conformity with the requirements of the Jewish
     law, as meat.
     [Webster 1913 Suppl.]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  kosher
       adj 1: conforming to dietary laws; "kosher meat"; "a kosher
              kitchen" [syn: {cosher}]
       2: proper or legitimate
       n : food that fulfills the requirements of Jewish dietary law

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  113 Moby Thesaurus words for "kosher":
     accordant, according to Hoyle, actionable, anal, applicable,
     appropriate, authorized, bleached, bourgeois, bright, clean,
     cleanly, comestible, competent, compulsive, concordant, condign,
     conformist, constitutional, conventional, correct, corresponding,
     dainty, decent, decorous, delicious, dirt-free, due, eatable,
     edible, esculent, fair, fastidious, fit, fitting, formalistic,
     fresh, good, gustable, harmonious, immaculate, in accord,
     in keeping, in line, in step, judicial, juridical, just,
     justiciable, lawful, lawmaking, legal, legislative, legit,
     legitimate, licit, nice, nonpolluted, normal, normative,
     of cleanly habits, orthodox, palatable, pedantic, plastic,
     precisianistic, proper, pure, right, right and proper, righteous,
     rightful, ritually pure, sanctioned, savory, seemly, shiny,
     smut-free, smutless, spotless, square, stainless, statutory,
     straight, stuffy, succulent, suitable, sweet, tahar,
     traditionalist, tubbed, unadulterated, unbesmirched, unblemished,
     unblotted, undefiled, unmuddied, unpolluted, unsmirched, unsmudged,
     unsoiled, unspotted, unstained, unsullied, untainted, untarnished,
     uptight, valid, well-scrubbed, well-washed, white, whitened,
     within the law