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Cock"roach (?), n. [Sp. cucaracha.] (Zo÷l.) An orthopterous insect of the genus Blatta, and allied genera.

&fist; 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).

Cocks"comb` (k&obreve;ks"kōm`), n. [1st cock, n. + comb crest.] 1. See Coxcomb.

2. (Bot.) 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.

Cocks"head` (?), n. (Bot.) A leguminous herb (Onobrychis Caput-galli), having small spiny-crested pods.

Cock"shut` (?), n. A kind of net to catch woodcock. [Obs.] Nares.

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

Cock"shy` (?), n. 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.

Cock"spur (?), n. (Bot.) A variety of CratŠgus, or hawthorn (C. Crus- galli), having long, straight thorns; -- called also Cockspur thorn.

Cock"sure` (?), a. 1. Perfectly safe. [Obs.]

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.

Cock"swain (?, colloq. ?), n. [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.

Cock"tail` (?), n. 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. (Zo÷l.) A species of rove beetle; -- so called from its habit of elevating the tail.

Cock"up (?), n. (Zo÷l.) A large, highly esteemed, edible fish of India (Lates calcarifer); -- also called begti.

Cock"weed (?), n. (Bot.) Peppergrass. Johnson.

Cock"y (?), a. [See Cocket.] Pert. [Slang]

{ Co"co (kō"k&osl;), n. or Co"co palm (kō"k&osl; pńm`).} See Cocoa.

{ Co"coa (kō"k&osl;), n., Co"coa palm` (pńm`) } [Sp. & Pg. coco cocoanut, in Sp. also, cocoa palm. The Portuguese name is said to have been given from the monkeylike face at the base of the nut, fr. Pg. coco a bugbear, an ugly mask to frighten children. Cf., however, Gr. koy^ki the cocoa palm and its fruit, ko`i:x, ko`i:kos, a kind of Egyptian palm.] (Bot.) 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.

Co"coa, n. [Corrupted fr. 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.