Dictionary: COCK'-BRAIN-ED – COCK'-LOFT

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COCK'-BRAIN-ED, a.

Giddy; rash. – Milton.

COCK'-BROTH, n.

– Broth made by boiling a cock. – Harvey.

COCK'-CHAF-FER, n.

The May-bug, or dorr-beetle, a species of Scarabæus.

COCK'-CROW, n.

A cock-crowing. – Coleridge.

COCK'-CROWING, n.

The time at which cocks crow; early morning. – Mark xiii.

COCK'ED, n.

  1. Turned up and forming a point, as the brim of a hat.
  2. Made into a cock, as hay.
  3. Drawn back, as the cock of a gun.

COCK'ER, n.

  1. One who follows cock-fighting. – Johnson.
  2. A sort of spatter-dash. – Bp. Hall.

COCK'ER, v.t. [W. cocru. See Coax.]

To fondle; to indulge; to treat with tenderness; to pamper. – Locke. Swift.

COCK'ER-EL, n.

A young cock. – Dryden.

COCK'ER-ING, n.

Indulgence. – Milton.

COCK'ET, a.

Brisk; pert. – Sherwood.

COCK'ET, n. [Qu. Fr. cachet, Arm. cacheot, a seal.]

A seal of the custom-house; a royal seal; rather a scroll of parchment, sealed and delivered by the officers of the custom-house, to merchants, as a warrant that their merchandise is entered. The office of entry. – Spelman. Cowel. Encyc.

COCK'ET-BREAD, n.

The finest sort of wheat bread. Qu. stamped bread.

COCK'-FIGHT, or COCK'-FIGHT-ING, n.

A match or contest of cocks; a barbarous sport of the ancients and moderns, in which cocks are set to fight with each other, till one or the other is conquered. – Bacon. Addison.

COCK'-HEAD-ED, a.

Having a head like that of the cock.

COCK'-HORSE, a.

On horse-back; triumphant; exulting. – Prior.

COCK'ING, n.

Cock-fighting. – Beaum.

COCK'ING, ppr.

Turning up, as the brim of a hat, &c. See Cock, the verb.

COCK'LE, n.1 [Sax. coccel, cocel, or cocle; Ir. cagal; Sp. and Port. joyo; Fr. coquelicot.]

A plant or weed, that grows among corn, the corn-rose, a species of Agrostemma. It is also applied to the Lolium or darnel.

COCK'LE, n.2 [Fr. coque, coquille; L. cochlea; W. cocos, plur.; Gr. κοχλος, κοχλιας, from κοχλω, to turn or roll. Probably by giving the χ a nasal sound, Gr. κογχη, L. concha, are from the same root, whence κοφχυλιον, L. conchylium, It. conchiglia. See Conch.]

  1. A small testaceous shell; or rather a genus of shells, the Cardium. The general characteristics are: shells nearly equilateral and equivalvular; hinge with two small teeth, one on each side near the beak, and two larger remote lateral teeth, one on each side; prominent ribs running from the hinge to the edge of the valve. – Cuvier. Linnæus.
  2. A mineral; a name given by the Cornish miners to shirl, or shorl. – Nicholson.
  3. A young cock. [Obs.] [See Cockerel.] – Spenser.

COCK'LE, v.i. [or t.]

To contract into wrinkles, to shrink, pucker, or wrinkle, as cloth. – Bailey.

COCK'LED, pp.

  1. Contracted into folds or wrinkles; winding.
  2. Having shells.

COCK'LER, n.

One that takes and sells cockles. – Gray.

COCK'LE-STAIRS, n.

Winding or spiral stairs. – Chambers.

COCK'-LOFT, n. [See Cock.]

The top loft; the upper room in a house or other building; a lumber room. – Dryden. Swift.