Part 325

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

Coc"kle, n. [AS. coccel, cocel; cf. Gael. cogall tares, husks, cockle.] (Bot.) (a) A plant or weed that grows among grain; the corn rose (Luchnis Githage). (b) The Lotium, or darnel.

Coc"kle*bur` (?), n. (Bot.) A coarse, composite weed, having a rough or prickly fruit; one of several species of the genus Xanthium; -- called also clotbur.

Coc"kled (?), a. Inclosed in a shell.

The tender horns of cockled snails. Shak.

Coc"kled, a. Wrinkled; puckered.

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

Coc"kler (?), n. One who takes and sells cockles.

Coc"kle*shell` (?), n. 1. One of the shells or valves of a cockle.

2. A light boat.

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

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

Cock"mas`ter (?), n. One who breeds gamecocks. L'Estrange.

Cock"match` (?), n. A cockfight.

Cock"ney (k&obreve;k"n&ybreve;), n.; pl. Cockneys (- n&ibreve;z). [OE. cocknay, cokenay, a spoiled child, effeminate person, an egg; prob. orig. a cock's egg, a small imperfect egg; OE. cok cock + nay, neye, for ey egg (cf. Newt), AS. Šg. See 1st Cock, Egg, n.] 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.

Cock"ney, a. Of or relating to, or like, cockneys.

Cock"ney*dom (k&obreve;k"n&ibreve;*dŭm), n. The region or home of cockneys; cockneys, collectively. Thackeray.

Cock"ney*fy (-fī), v. t. [Cockney + -fy.] To form with the manners or character of a cockney. [Colloq.]

Cock"ney*ish, a. Characteristic of, or resembling, cockneys.

Cock"ney*ism (k&obreve;k"n&ibreve;*&ibreve;z'm), n. The characteristics, manners, or dialect, of a cockney.

Cock"-pad`dle (?), n. [Etymol. uncertain.] (Zo÷l.) See Lumpfish. [Scot.]

Cock"pit` (k&obreve;k"p&ibreve;t), n. 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. (Naut.) (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.