CPage 258
- English Word Cock Definition To shape, as a hat, by turning up the brim.
- English Word Cock Definition To set on one side in a pert or jaunty manner.
- English Word Cock Definition To turn (the eye) obliquely and partially close its lid, as an expression of derision or insinuation.
- English Word Cock Definition To strut; to swagger; to look big, pert, or menacing.
- English Word Cock Definition The act of cocking; also, the turn so given; as, a cock of the eyes; to give a hat a saucy cock.
- English Word Cock Definition The notch of an arrow or crossbow.
- English Word Cock Definition The hammer in the lock of a firearm.
- English Word Cock Definition To draw the hammer of (a firearm) fully back and set it for firing.
- English Word Cock Definition To draw back the hammer of a firearm, and set it for firing.
- English Word Cock Definition A small concial pile of hay.
- English Word Cock Definition To put into cocks or heaps, as hay.
- English Word Cock Definition A small boat.
- English Word Cock Definition A corruption or disguise of the word God, used in oaths.
- English Word Cock-a-hoop Definition Boastful; defiant; exulting. Also used adverbially.
- English Word Cock-brained Definition Giddy; rash.
- English Word Cock-padle Definition See Lumpfish.
- English Word Cockade Definition A badge, usually in the form of a rosette, or knot, and generally worn upon the hat; -- used as an indication of military or naval service, or party allegiance, and in England as a part of the livery to indicate that the wearer is the servant of a military or naval officer.
- English Word Cockaded Definition Wearing a cockade.
- English Word Cockal Definition A game played with sheep's bones instead of dice
- English Word Cockal Definition The bone used in playing the game; -- called also huckle bone.
- English Word Cockaleekie Definition A favorite soup in Scotland, made from a capon highly seasoned, and boiled with leeks and prunes.
- English Word Cockamaroo Definition The Russian variety of bagatelle.
- English Word Cockateel Definition An Australian parrot (Calopsitta Novae-Hollandiae); -- so called from its note.
- English Word Cockatoo Definition A bird of the Parrot family, of the subfamily Cacatuinae, having a short, strong, and much curved beak, and the head ornamented with a crest, which can be raised or depressed at will. There are several genera and many species; as the broad-crested (Plictolophus, / Cacatua, cristatus), the sulphur-crested (P. galeritus), etc. The palm or great black cockatoo of Australia is Microglossus aterrimus.
- English Word Cockatrice Definition A fabulous serpent whose breath and look were said to be fatal. See Basilisk.
- English Word Cockatrice Definition A representation of this serpent. It has the head, wings, and legs of a bird, and tail of a serpent.
- English Word Cockatrice Definition A venomous serpent which which cannot now be identified.
- English Word Cockatrice Definition Any venomous or deadly thing.
- English Word Cockbill Definition To tilt up one end of so as to make almost vertical; as, to cockbill the yards as a sign of mourning.
- English Word Cockboat Definition A small boat, esp. one used on rivers or near the shore.