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An American Dictionary of the English Language
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Springfield, Mass. · G. & C. Merriam · 1865
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Cŏch'le-a-ry or Cŏch'le-ate or Cŏch'le-ā'ted, a. p. 245(Nat. Hist.) Having the form of a snail-shell; spiral; turbinated; as, a cochleate pod.Cŏck, n. p. 245The male of birds, particularly of gallinaceous or domestic fowls. 2. A vane in the shape of a cock; a weathercock. You cataracts and hurricanes, spout Till you have drenched our steeples, drowned…Cŏck, v. t. p. 246To set erect; to turn up. Our Lightfoot barks, and cocks his ears. Gay. Dick would cock his nose in scorn. Swift. 2. To shape, as a hat, by turning up the brim. 3. To place upon the head in a manner…Cŏck, v. i. p. 246To hold up the head; to strut; to look big, pert, or menacing. 2. To train or use fighting cocks. 3. To cocker. [Obs.] B. Jonson.Cock-āde', n. p. 246A ribbon, or knot of ribbon, or something similar, worn on the hat, as a badge of office or a symbol of party. “Seduced by military liveries and cockades.” Burke.Cock-ād'ed, a. p. 246Wearing a cockade. Young.Cōck'al, n. p. 246A game played with sheep's bones instead of dice. 2. The bone used in playing the game;—called corruptly huckle-bone. Nares. A little transverse bone Which boys and bruckeled children call (Playing…Cōck'a-tōō',, n. p. 246(Ornith.) A bird of the parrot kind, of the genus Cacatuinæ, characterized by a very short, strong, and much curved beak, and also by having the head ornamented with a tuft of feathers, or crest…Cŏck'a-trīce, n. p. 246The basilisk; a fabulous serpent, said to be produced from a cock's egg brooded by a serpent. Its breath, and even its look, is fabled to be fatal. That bare vowel, I, shall poison more Than the…Cŏck'bill, n. p. 246(Naut.) The position of the anchor, when it is suspended perpendicularly from the cat-head, ready to be let go in a moment. Mar. Dict.Cŏck'-bōat, n. p. 246A small boat. [See COCK, 12.]Cōck'-brāined, a. p. 246Giddy; rash. Milton.Cōck'-chāf'er, n. p. 246(Entom.) An insect of the genus Melolontha (M. vulgaris);—called also may-bug, or dor-beetle. Baird.Cŏck'-crōw or Cŏck'-crōw'ing, n. p. 246The time at which cocks crow; early morning.Cōck'ēr, v. t. p. 246To treat with tenderness; to fondle; to indulge; to pamper. He that will give his son sugar-plums to make him learn, does but authorize his love of pleasure, and cocker up that propensity which he…Cŏck'er, n. p. 246One who follows cock-fighting. 2. A kind of rustic high shoe or half-boot. His cockers were of cordwain. Drayton. 3. A dog of the spaniel kind, used for starting up woodcocks and other game from…Cŏck'er-ĕl, n. p. 246A young cock. Dryden.Cŏck'et, a. p. 246Brisk, pert. [Obs.] Sherwood.Cŏck'et, n. p. 246(Eng. Law.) A custom-house certificate that goods have been duly entered and have paid duty, granted to merchants. The name is thought to be a corruption of quo quietus, words which occur in the…Cōck'et-brēad, n. p. 246The finest sort of wheat bread.Cŏck'eye, n. p. 246A squinting eye. Forby.Cŏck'-fēath'er, n. p. 246(Archery.) The feather which stood up on the arrow, when it was rightly placed upon the string, perpendicularly above the cock or notch. Nares.Cock'-fight, n. p. 246A match or contest of game-Cock'-fight'ing p. 246cocks.Cŏck'-hôrse, n. p. 246A child's rocking-horse. Halliwell. 2. A high or tall horse. [Rare.]Cŏck'-hŏrse, a. p. 246Raised or lifted up, as one is on horseback. 2. Lofty in feeling; exultant; proud or imperious; upstart. “Our painted fools and cock-horse peasantry.” Marlowe.Cŏck'ing, n. p. 246Cock-fighting. Beau. & Fl.Cock'le, n. p. 246(Bot.) (a.) A plant or weed that grows among corn; the corn-rose, a species of Agrostemma (A. githago); (b.) The Lolium, or darnel. London. 2. [Fr. coquille, It. cochiglia, conchiglia, from Lat.…Cock'le, v. t. p. 246To contract into wrinkles resembling the ridges or ribs of the cockle-shell. Showers soon drench the camlet's cockled grain. Gay.Cŏck'le, v. i. p. 246To take the form of wrinkles or ridges. “A short cockling sea which must very soon have bulged the ship.” Cook.Cōck'le-ōast, n. p. 246That part of an oast or hop-kiln where the fire is made.Cŏck'ler, n. p. 246One who takes and sells cockles. Gray.Cŏck'le-shĕll, n. p. 246The shell or covering of a cockle.Cŏck'le-stâirs, n. pl. p. 246Winding or spiral stairs. Chambers.Cŏck'-lŏft, n. p. 246The top loft; the upper room in a house or other building; a lumber room. Dryden. Swift.Cŏck'-mās'ter, n. p. 246One who breeds game cocks. L'Estrange.Cŏck'-mătch, n. p. 246A match of cocks; a cock-fight. Addison.Cŏck'ney, n. p. 246An effeminate person. “A young heir or cockney, that is his mother's darling.” Nash, 1592. I am afraid this great lubber, the world, will prove a cockney. Shak. 2. A native or resident of the city of…Cŏck'ney, a. p. 246Related to, or like, cockneys.Cŏck'ney-dōm, n. p. 246The region or home of cockneys. Thackeray.Cŏck'ney-fy, v. t. p. 246To form with the manners or character of a cockney. [Colloq.]Cŏck'ney-ish, a. p. 246Relating to, or like, cockneys.Cŏck'ney-īsm, n. p. 246The condition, qualities, manners, or dialect of a cockney.Cŏck'-pād/dle, n. p. 246(Ichth.) A species of Cyclopteride or sucker (C. lumpus); — called also lump-fish. [Scot.] Baird.Cŏck'pĭt, n. p. 246A pit, or area, where game-cocks fight. Shak. 2. The privy council room at Westminster; — so called because built on the cockpit of Whitehall palace. Brande. 3. (Naut.) A room or apartment, situated…Cŏck'rōach, n. p. 246(Entom.) An insect of several species of the genus Blatta, especially the B. orientalis. It has a long, flattish body, with large, thin wing-cases, and is very troublesome, infesting houses and…Cŏcks'cōmb, n. p. 246The caruncle or comb of a cock. 2. (Bot.) A plant of different genera, as the Celosia cristata, the Pedicularis, or lousewort, the Rhinanthus crista-galli, and the Hedysarum crista-galli. Loudon. 3.…Cŏcks'hĕad, n. p. 246(Bot.) A plant, the Hedysarum caput-galli. Loudon.Cŏck'shŭt, n. p. 246The close of the day, when fowls go to roost. [Obs.] Shak. 2. A net to catch, or shut in, woodcock. [Obs.] Nares.Cŏck'spûr, n. p. 246The spur on the leg of the bird called cock. 2. (Bot.) A variety of Cratægus, or hawthorn (C. crus-galli). Loudon.Cŏck'sure, a. p. 246Confidently certain. [Low.] We steal as in a castle cocksure; . . . we walk invisible. Shak. ☞ The term is, perhaps, derived from the cock of a firelock, as being much more certain to fire than the…Cŏck'swain, n. p. 246(Naut.) The person who steers or pulls the after oar in a boat, and who, in the absence of an officer, commands it. Totten.Cŏck'-weed, n. p. 246A plant; pepperwort. Johnson.Cō'cōa, n. p. 246(Bot.) A palm-tree producing the cocoa-nut (Cocos nucifera). It grows in nearly all tropical countries, attaining a height of sixty or eighty feet. The trunk is without branches, and has a tuft of…Co-cōōn', n. p. 246An oblong case in which the silkworm lies in its chrysalis state. It is formed of threads of silk spun by the worm just before leaving the larval state, and from these the silk of commerce is…Co-cōōn'er-y, n. p. 246A building or apartment for silkworms, when feeding and forming cocoons.Cŏc'ti-ble, a. p. 246Capable of being baked or boiled.Cŏc'tĭle, a. p. 246Made by baking, or exposing to heat, as a brick.Cŏc'tion, n. p. 246The act of boiling. Boyle. 2. (Med.) (a.) The process of alteration undergone in the digestive organs by food. [Obs.] (b.) The alteration experienced by morbific matter before elimination. Dunglison.Cō'cus-wŏŏd, n. p. 246A West Indian wood, used for making flutes and other musical instruments.