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Cock*ad"ed (-ā"d&ebreve;d), a. Wearing a cockade. Young.

Cock`-a-hoop" (?), a. Boastful; defiant; exulting. Also used adverbially.

Cock"al (k&obreve;k"al), n. [Etymol. uncertain.] 1. A game played with sheep's bones instead of dice [Obs.]

2. The bone used in playing the game; -- called also huckle bone. [Obs.] Nares.

A little transverse bone Which boys and bruckeled children call (Playing for points and pins) cockal. Herrick.

Cock`a*leek"ie (k&obreve;k`&adot;*lē"k&ibreve;), n. [From cock + leek.] A favorite soup in Scotland, made from a capon highly seasoned, and boiled with leeks and prunes.

Cock`a*ma*roo" (?), n. The Russian variety of bagatelle.

Cock"a*teel (k&obreve;k`&adot;*tēl"), n. (Zo÷l.) An Australian parrot (Calopsitta NovŠ-HollandiŠ); -- so called from its note.

Cock`a*too" (k&obreve;k`&adot;*t&oomac;"), n. [Malayan kakatūa.] (Zo÷l.) A bird of the Parrot family, of the subfamily CacatuinŠ, 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, or Cacatua, cristatus), the sulphur-crested (P. galeritus), etc. The palm or great black cockatoo of Australia is Microglossus aterrimus.

Cock"a*trice (-trīs; 277), n. [OF. cocatrice crocodile, F. cocatrix, cocatrice. The word is a corruption from the same source as E. crocodile, but was confused with cock the bird, F. coq, whence arose the fable that the animal was produced from a cock's egg. See Crocodile.]

1. A fabulous serpent whose breath and look were said to be fatal. See Basilisk.

That bare vowel, I, shall poison more Than the death-darting eye of cockatrice. Shak.

2. (Her.) A representation of this serpent. It has the head, wings, and legs of a bird, and tail of a serpent.

3. (Script.) A venomous serpent which which cannot now be identified.

The weaned child shall put his hand on the cockatrice's [Rev. Ver. basilisk's] den. Is. xi. 8.

4. Any venomous or deadly thing.

This little cockatrice of a king. Bacon.

Cock"bill (k&obreve;k"b&ibreve;l`), v. t. [See Cock to set erect.] (Naut.) To tilt up one end of so as to make almost vertical; as, to cockbill the yards as a sign of mourning.

To cockbill the anchor, to suspend it from the cathead preparatory to letting it go. See Acockbill.

Cock"boat` (?), n. [See Cock a boat.] A small boat, esp. one used on rivers or near the shore.

Cock"-brained` (?), a. Giddy; rash. Milton.

Cock"chaf`er (?), n. [See Chafer the beetle.] (Zo÷l.) A beetle of the genus Melolontha (esp. M. vulgaris) and allied genera; -- called also May bug, chafer, or dorbeetle.

{ Cock"crow (?), Cock"crow`ing, } n. The time at which cocks first crow; the early morning.

Cock"er (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Cockered (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Cockering.] [OE. cokeren; cf. W. cocru to indulge, fondle, E. cock the bird, F. coqueliner to dandle (Cotgrave), to imitate the crow of a cock, to run after the girls, and E. cockle, v.] To treat with too great tenderness; to fondle; to indulge; to pamper.

Cocker thy child and he shall make thee afraid. Ecclesiasticus xxx. 9.

Poor folks cannot afford to cocker themselves up. J. Ingelow.

Cock"er, n. [From Cock the bird.] 1. One given to cockfighting. [Obs.] Steele.

2. (Zo÷l.) A small dog of the spaniel kind, used for starting up woodcocks, etc.