Emily Dickinson Lexicon

COCKS-COMB', n.

1. The caruncle or comb of a cock.
2. A plant. This name is given to the Celosia cristata, the Pedicularis or louse wort, and the Rhinanthus or yellow rattle. – Fam. of Plants. Lee.
3. A fop, or vain silly fellow. [See Coxcomb.]