<i>Knight.</i>
<p><b>5.</b> <def>A hop-drying kiln; an oast.</def>
<i>Knight.</i>
<p><b>6.</b> <def>The dome of a heating furnace.</def>
<i>Knight.</i>
<cs><col>Cockle hat</col>, <cd>a hat ornamented with a cockleshell, the badge of a pilgrim.</cd> <i>Shak.</i> -- <col>Cockle stairs</col>, <cd>winding or spiral stairs.</cd></cs>
<h1>Cockle</h1> <Xpage=273>
<hw>Coc"kle</hw>, <tt>v. t.</tt> <wordforms>[<tt>imp. & p. p.</tt> <er>Cockled</er> <tt>(?)</tt>; <tt>p. pr. & vb. n.</tt> <er>Cockling</er> <tt>(?)</tt>.]</wordforms> <ety>[Of uncertian origin.]</ety> <def>To cause to contract into wrinkles or ridges, as some kinds of cloth after a wetting.</def>
<cs><col>Cockling sea</col>, <cd>waves dashing against each other with a short and quick motion.</cd>
<i>Ham. Nav. Encyc.</i></cs>
<h1>Cockle</h1> <Xpage=273>
<hw>Coc"kle</hw>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[AS. <ets>coccel</ets>, <ets>cocel</ets>; cf. Gael. <ets>cogall</ets> tares, husks, cockle.]</ety> <fld>(Bot.)</fld> <sd>(a)</sd> <def>A plant or weed that grows among grain; the corn rose (<spn>Luchnis Githage</spn>).</def> <sd>(b)</sd> <def>The <spn>Lotium</spn>, or darnel.</def>
<h1>Cocklebur</h1> <Xpage=273>
<hw>Coc"kle*bur`</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <fld>(Bot.)</fld> <def>A coarse, composite weed, having a rough or prickly fruit; one of several species of the genus <spn>Xanthium</spn>; -- called also <altname>clotbur</altname>.</def>
<h1>Cockled</h1> <Xpage=273>
<hw>Coc"kled</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <def>Inclosed in a shell.</def>
<blockquote>The tender horns of <b>cockled</b> snails. <i>Shak.</i></blockquote>
<h1>Cockled</h1> <Xpage=273>
<hw>Coc"kled</hw>, <tt>a.</tt> <def>Wrinkled; puckered.</def>
<blockquote>Showers soon drench the camlet's <b>cockled</b> grain. <i>Gay.</i></blockquote>
<h1>Cockler</h1> <Xpage=273>
<hw>Coc"kler</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>One who takes and sells cockles.</def>
<h1>Cockleshell</h1> <Xpage=273>
<hw>Coc"kle*shell`</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <p><b>1.</b> <def>One of the shells or valves of a cockle.</def>
<p><b>2.</b> <def>A light boat.</def>
<blockquote>To board the <b>cockleshell</b> in those plunding waters. <i>W. Black.</i></blockquote>
<h1>Cockloft</h1> <Xpage=273>
<hw>Cock"loft`</hw> <tt>(?; 115)</tt> <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[Prop., a loft where <ets>cocks</ets> roost.]</ety> <def>An upper loft; a garret; the highest room in a building.</def>
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