cookie

from WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006)

cookie
    n 1: any of various small flat sweet cakes (`biscuit' is the
         British term) [syn: {cookie}, {cooky}, {biscuit}]
    2: the cook on a ranch or at a camp [syn: {cookie}, {cooky}]
    3: a short line of text that a web site puts on your computer's
       hard drive when you access the web site

from The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

Cookey \Cook"ey\, Cookie \Cook"ie\, n.
   See {Cooky}.
   [1913 Webster]

from Jargon File (4.4.4, 14 Aug 2003)

cookie
 n.

   A handle, transaction ID, or other token of agreement between
   cooperating programs. "I give him a packet, he gives me back a
   cookie." The claim check you get from a dry-cleaning shop is a perfect
   mundane example of a cookie; the only thing it's useful for is to
   relate a later transaction to this one (so you get the same clothes
   back). Syn. {magic cookie}; see also {fortune cookie}. Now mainstream
   in the specific sense of web-browser cookies.

from The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (8 July 2008)

cookie
cooky

   1. <World-Wide Web> {HTTP cookie}.

   2. <protocol> A handle, transaction ID, or other token of
   agreement between cooperating programs.  "I give him a packet,
   he gives me back a cookie".

   The ticket you get from a dry-cleaning shop is a perfect
   mundane example of a cookie; the only thing it's useful for is
   to relate a later transaction to this one (so you get the same
   clothes back).

   Compare {magic cookie}; see also {fortune cookie}.

   3. <security, jargon> A {cracker} term for the {password} list
   on a {multi-user} computer.

   4. <jargon> An adjective describing a computer that just
   became {toast}.

   (1997-04-14)