Part 2066

<hw>Cock"swain</hw> <tt>(?, <mark>colloq</mark>. ?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[<ets>Cock</ets> a boat + <ets>swain</ets>; hence, the master of a boat.]</ety> <def>The steersman of a boat; a petty officer who has charge of a boat and its crew.</def>

<h1>Cocktail</h1> <Xpage=273>

<hw>Cock"tail`</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <p><b>1.</b> <def>A beverage made of brandy, whisky, or gin, iced, flavored, and sweetened.</def> <mark>[U. S.]</mark>

<p><b>2.</b> <fld>(Stock Breeding)</fld> <def>A horse, not of pure breed, but having only one eighth or one sixteenth impure blood in his veins.</def>

<i>Darwin.</i>

<p><b>3.</b> <def>A mean, half-hearted fellow; a coward.</def> <mark>[Slang, Eng.]</mark>

<blockquote>It was in the second affair that poor little Barney showed he was a <b>cocktail</b>. <i>Thackeray.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>4.</b> <fld>(Zo\'94l.)</fld> <def>A species of rove beetle; -- so called from its habit of elevating the tail.</def>

<h1>Cockup</h1> <Xpage=273>

<hw>Cock"up</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <fld>(Zo\'94l.)</fld> <def>A large, highly esteemed, edible fish of India (<spn>Lates calcarifer</spn>); -- also called <altname>begti</altname>.</def>

<h1>Cockweed</h1> <Xpage=273>

<hw>Cock"weed</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <fld>(Bot.)</fld> <def>Peppergrass.</def>

<i>Johnson.</i>

<h1>Cocky</h1> <Xpage=273>

<hw>Cock"y</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <ety>[See <er>Cocket</er>.]</ety> <def>Pert.</def> <mark>[Slang]</mark>

<h1>Coco, n. &or; Coco palm</h1> <Xpage=273>

<hw><hw>Co"co</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> &or; <hw>Co"co palm</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>.<hw> <def>See <er>Cocoa</er>.</def>

<h1>Cocoa, n., Cocoa palm</h1> <Xpage=273>

<hw><hw>Co"coa</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt>, <hw>Co"coa palm`</hw> <tt>(?)</tt><hw> <ety>[Sp. & Pg. <ets>coco</ets> 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. <ets>coco</ets> a bugbear, an ugly mask to frighten children. Cf., however, Gr. <?/ the cocoa palm and its fruit, <?/, <?/, a kind of Egyptian palm.]</ety> <fld>(Bot.)</fld> <def>A palm tree producing the cocoanut (<spn>Cocos nucifera</spn>). 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.</def>

<h1>Cocoa</h1> <Xpage=273>

<hw>Co"coa</hw>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[Corrupted fr. <ets>cacao</ets>.]</ety> <def>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.</def>

<cs><col>Cocoa shells</col>, <cd>the husks which separate from the cacao seeds in preparing them for use.</cd></cs>

<h1>Cocoanut</h1> <Xpage=273>

<hw>Co"coa*nut`</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>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.</def>

<h1>Cocobolo, Cocobolas</h1> <Xpage=273>

<hw><hw>Co`co*bo"lo</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <hw>Co`co*bo"las</hw> <tt>(?)</tt><hw>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[Sp. <ets>cocobolo</ets>.]</ety> <fld>(Bot.)</fld> <def>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.</def>

<h1>Cocoon</h1> <Xpage=273>

<hw>Co*coon"</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[F. <ets>cocon</ets>, dim. of <ets>coque</ets> shell of egge and insects, fr. L. <ets>concha</ets> mussel shell. See <er>Conch</er>.]</ety> <p><b>1.</b> <def>An oblong case in which the silkworn 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.</def>