kosher

5 definitions found

kosher - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  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]

  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]

  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.]

kosher - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

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

kosher - Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 :

  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