Emily Dickinson Lexicon
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.
- Turned up and forming a point, as the brim of a hat.
- Made into a cock, as hay.
- Drawn back, as the cock of a gun.
COCK'ER, n.
- One who follows cock-fighting. – Johnson.
- 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.]
- 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.
- A mineral; a name given by the Cornish miners to shirl, or shorl. – Nicholson.
- 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.
- Contracted into folds or wrinkles; winding.
- 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.