Cockeye Cock"eye` noun [ From cock to turn up.] A squinting eye. Forby.

Cockeye Cock"eye` noun (Machinery) The socket in the ball of a millstone, which sits on the cockhead.

Cockfight Cock"fight` noun A match or contest of gamecocks.

Cockfighting Cock"fight`ing noun The act or practice of pitting gamecocks to fight.

Cockfighting Cock"fight`ing adjective Addicted to cockfighting.

Cockhead Cock"head` noun (Machinery) The rounded or pointed top of a grinding mill spindle, forming a pivot on which the stone is balanced.

Cockhorse Cock"horse` noun 1. A child's rocking-horse.

Ride a cockhorse to Banbury cross.
Mother Goose.

2. A high or tall horse. [ R.]

Cockhorse Cock"horse` adjective 1. Lifted up, as one is on a tall horse.

2. Lofty in feeling; exultant; proud; upstart.

Our painted fools and cockhorse peasantry.
Marlowe.

Cockieleekie Cock`ie·leek"ie noun Same as Cockaleekie .

Cocking Cock"ing noun Cockfighting. Ben Jonson.

Cockle Coc"kle (kŏk"k'l) noun [ Middle English cockes cockles, Anglo-Saxon sǣcoccas sea cockles, prob, from Celtic; confer W. cocs cockles, Gael. cochull husk. Perh. influenced by French coquille shell, a dim. from the root of English conch . Confer Coach .] 1. (Zoology) A bivalve mollusk, with radiating ribs, of the genus Cardium , especially C. edule , used in Europe for food; -- sometimes applied to similar shells of other genera.

2. A cockleshell.

3. The mineral black tourmaline or schorl; -- so called by the Cornish miners. Raymond.

4. The fire chamber of a furnace. [ Eng.] Knight.

5. A hop-drying kiln; an oast. Knight.

6. The dome of a heating furnace. Knight.

Cockle hat , a hat ornamented with a cockleshell, the badge of a pilgrim. Shak. -- Cockle stairs , winding or spiral stairs.

Cockle Coc"kle transitive verb [ imperfect & past participle Cockled ; present participle & verbal noun Cockling .] [ Of uncertian origin.] To cause to contract into wrinkles or ridges, as some kinds of cloth after a wetting.

Cockling sea , waves dashing against each other with a short and quick motion. Ham. Nav. Encyc.

Cockle Coc"kle noun [ Anglo-Saxon coccel , cocel ; confer Gael. cogall tares, husks, cockle.] (Botany) (a) A plant or weed that grows among grain; the corn rose ( Luchnis Githage ). (b) The Lotium , or darnel.

Cocklebur Coc"kle·bur` noun (Botany) A coarse, composite weed, having a rough or prickly fruit; one of several species of the genus Xanthium ; -- called also clotbur .

Cockled Coc"kled adjective Inclosed in a shell.

The tender horns of cockled snails.
Shak.

Cockled Coc"kled adjective Wrinkled; puckered.

Showers soon drench the camlet's cockled grain.
Gay.

Cockler Coc"kler noun One who takes and sells cockles.

Cockleshell Coc"kle·shell` noun 1. One of the shells or valves of a cockle.

2. A light boat.

To board the cockleshell in those plunding waters.
W. Black.

Cockloft Cock"loft` (?; 115) noun [ Prop., a loft where cocks roost.] An upper loft; a garret; the highest room in a building. Dryden. Swift.

Cockmaster Cock"mas`ter noun One who breeds gamecocks. L'Estrange.

Cockmatch Cock"match` noun A cockfight.

Cockney Cock"ney (kŏk"nȳ) noun ; plural Cockneys (- nĭz). [ Middle English cocknay , cokenay , a spoiled child, effeminate person, an egg; probably orig. a cock's egg, a small imperfect egg; Middle English cok cock + nay , neye , for ey egg (cf. Newt ), Anglo-Saxon æg . See 1st Cock , Egg , noun ] 1. An effeminate person; a spoilt child. "A young heir or cockney , that is his mother's darling." Nash (1592).

This great lubber, the world, will prove a cockney .
Shak.

2. A native or resident of the city of London; -- used contemptuously.

A cockney in a rural village was stared at as much as if he had entered a kraal of Hottentots.
Macaulay.

Cockney Cock"ney adjective Of or relating to, or like, cockneys.

Cockneydom Cock"ney·dom (kŏk"nĭ*dŭm) noun The region or home of cockneys; cockneys, collectively. Thackeray.

Cockneyfy Cock"ney·fy (-fī) transitive verb [ Cockney + -fy .] To form with the manners or character of a cockney. [ Colloq.]

Cockneyish Cock"ney·ish adjective Characteristic of, or resembling, cockneys.

Cockneyism Cock"ney·ism (kŏk"nĭ*ĭz'm) noun The characteristics, manners, or dialect, of a cockney.

Cockpit Cock"pit` (kŏk"pĭt) noun 1. A pit, or inclosed area, for cockfights.

Henry the Eighth had built . . . a cockpit .
Macaulay.

2. The Privy Council room at Westminster; -- so called because built on the site of the cockpit of Whitehall palace. Brande & C.

3. (Nautical) (a) That part of a war vessel appropriated to the wounded during an engagement. (b) In yachts and other small vessels, a space lower than the rest of the deck, which affords easy access to the cabin.

Cockpit Cock"pit` noun In some aëroplanes and flying machines, an inclosure for the pilot or a passenger.

Cockroach Cock"roach noun [ Spanish cucaracha .] (Zoology) An orthopterous insect of the genus Blatta , and allied genera.

» The species are numerous, especially in hot countries. Those most commonly infesting houses in Europe and North America are Blatta orientalis , a large species often called black beetle , and the Croton bug ( Ectobia Germanica ).

Cockscomb Cocks"comb` (kŏks"kōm`) noun [ 1st cock , noun + comb crest.] 1. See Coxcomb .

2. (Botany) A plant ( Celosia cristata ), of many varieties, cultivated for its broad, fantastic spikes of brilliant flowers; -- sometimes called garden cockscomb . Also the Pedicularis , or lousewort, the Rhinanthus Crista-galli , and the Onobrychis Crista-galli .

Cockshead Cocks"head` noun (Botany) A leguminous herb ( Onobrychis Caput-galli ), having small spiny-crested pods.

Cockshut Cock"shut` noun A kind of net to catch woodcock. [ Obsolete] Nares.

Cockshut time or light , evening twilight; nightfall; -- so called in allusion to the tome at which the cockshut used to be spread. [ Obsolete] Shak. B. Jonson.

Cockshy Cock"shy` noun 1. A game in which trinkets are set upon sticks, to be thrown at by the players; -- so called from an ancient popular sport which consisted in "shying" or throwing cudgels at live cocks.

2. An object at which stones are flung.

"Making a cockshy of him," replied the hideous small boy.
Dickens.

Cockspur Cock"spur noun (Botany) A variety of Cratægus , or hawthorn ( C. Crus- galli ), having long, straight thorns; -- called also Cockspur thorn .

Cocksure Cock"sure` adjective 1. Perfectly safe. [ Obsolete]

We steal as in a castle, cocksure: . . . we walk invisible.
Shak.

2. Quite certain. [ Colloq.]

I thought myself cocksure of the horse which he readily promised me.
Pope.

Cockswain Cock"swain noun [ Cock a boat + swain ; hence, the master of a boat.] The steersman of a boat; a petty officer who has charge of a boat and its crew.

Cocktail Cock"tail` noun 1. A beverage made of brandy, whisky, or gin, iced, flavored, and sweetened. [ U. S.]

2. (Stock Breeding) A horse, not of pure breed, but having only one eighth or one sixteenth impure blood in his veins. Darwin.

3. A mean, half-hearted fellow; a coward. [ Slang, Eng.]

It was in the second affair that poor little Barney showed he was a cocktail .
Thackeray.

4. (Zoology) A species of rove beetle; -- so called from its habit of elevating the tail.

Cockup Cock"up noun (Zoology) A large, highly esteemed, edible fish of India ( Lates calcarifer ); -- also called begti .

Cockweed Cock"weed noun (Botany) Peppergrass. Johnson.

Cocky Cock"y adjective [ See Cocket .] Pert. [ Slang]

Cockyolly, Cockyoly, bird Cock`y·ol"ly, Cock`y·ol"y, bird [ Confer Cock , fowl; Yellow .] A pet name for any small bird.

Coco Co"co (kō"ko) noun or Co"co palm (kō"ko päm`). See Cocoa .

Cocoa Co"coa (kō"ko) noun , Co"coa palm` (päm`) [ Spanish & Portuguese coco cocoanut, in Spanish also, cocoa palm. The Portuguese name is said to have been given from the monkeylike face at the base of the nut, from Portuguese coco a bugbear, an ugly mask to frighten children. Confer , however, Greek koy^ki the cocoa palm and its fruit, ko`i:x , ko`i:kos , a kind of Egyptian palm.] (Botany) A palm tree producing the cocoanut ( 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 leaves at the top, each being fifteen or twenty feet in length, and at the base of these the nuts hang in clusters; the cocoanut tree.

Cocoa Co"coa noun [ Corrupted from cacao .] A preparation made from the seeds of the chocolate tree, and used in making, a beverage; also the beverage made from cocoa or cocoa shells.

Cocoa shells , the husks which separate from the cacao seeds in preparing them for use.

Cocoanut Co"coa·nut` (-nŭt`) noun The large, hard-shelled nut of the cocoa palm. It yields an agreeable milky liquid and a white meat or albumen much used as food and in making oil.

Cocobolo, Cocobolas Co`co·bo"lo, Co`co·bo"las noun [ Spanish cocobolo .] (Botany) A very beautiful and hard wood, obtained in the West India Islands. It is used in cabinetmaking, for the handles of tools, and for various fancy articles.

Cocoon Co·coon" noun [ French cocon , dim. of coque shell of egge and insects, from Latin concha mussel shell. See Conch .] 1. An 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. From these the silk of commerce is prepared.

2. (Zoology) (a) The case constructed by any insect to contain its larva or pupa. (b) The case of silk made by spiders to protect their eggs. (c) The egg cases of mucus, etc., made by leeches and other worms.

Cocoonery Co·coon"er·y noun A building or apartment for silkworms, when feeding and forming cocoons.

Coctible Coc"ti·ble adjective [ See Coctile .] Capable of being cooked. Blount.

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