cockapertt (kokapert)

[ Wright. A Cock arouse is one that has the honor to be of the king's or queen's council, with relation to the affairs of the government, and has a great share in the administration. Beverley, Virginia, iii. 45. Thus a fish finding itself entangled would flounce, and often pull the man under water, and then that man was counted a cock arouse , or brave fellow, that would not let go, till with swimming, wading, and diving, he had tired the sturgeon, and brought it ashore. Beverley , Virginia, ii. 23. cockateel (kok-a-tēl'), п. [ cockatoo , with term. arbitrarily altered ( -eel perhaps for dim. -elle).] A cockatoo of the genus Calopsitta , as the Australian C. novæ-holland i a. P. L. Sclater. cockatoo (kok-a-tö'), n. [Earlier cacatoo, саса toe; = D. kakatoe, kakketoe = G. kakadu = Dan. kakadue = Sw. cacadu, kakadu = F. kaka toës = NL. cacatua, IMG:content-0717.png:[graphic][subsumed][merged small] They are for the most part white, tinged with sulphury yellow or rose-color, and with elegant recurved crests resembling helmets, which can be erected at will. They inhabit the East Indies, Australia, etc. The sulphur-crested cockatoo, Cacatua galerita, of Australia, and the red-vented cockatoo, C. hæmatopygia, are characteristic examples. Black cockatoos belong to the related genus Calyptorhyn chus.-Helmet-cockatoo, Callocephalon galeatum.-Raven-cockatoo, one of the black cockatoos of the genus Calyptorhynchus, as C. banks i. cockatrice (kok'a-tris or -tris), n. [Early mod. E. also coccatrice; trice, Pr. calcatrix = = cocotriz, a crocodile, = It. cocatrice (ML. coca trix, -tric-), trix, -tric-), a cockatrice: all corruptions of L. crocodilus, crocodilus, a a crocodile; cf. crocodile and its obs. forms cockodrill, cokodrille. Popularly a ociated with cock1, hence the fable of its origin.] 1. A fabulous monster reputed to be hatched by a serpent from a cock's egg, represented as po e ing characters belonging to both animals, and supposed to have the power of killing by the glance of its eye; a basilisk. Cockatrice. It occurs as a bearing in heraldry, represented as having the head, legs, and feet of the cock, a serpent's body and tail, and dragon wings. It is generally represented in profile, as if pa ant; but when blazoned displayed it is depicted affronté, so as to show both wings. They hatch cockatrice ' eggs, and weave the spider's web. Isa. lix. 5. And kill with looks as Cockatrices doo. Spenser, Sonnets, xlix. IMG:content-0718.png:[blocks in formation] cockbill (kok'bil), v. t. [See a - cockbill.] Naut., to place a-cockbill, as an anchor or the yards. The pilot gave orders to cock - bill the anchor and overhaul the chain. R. H. Dana , Jr. , Before the Mast, p. 427. cockboat (kok'bōt), n. [ cokboot , cok bote , also cogboot , cok , E. cock4 (or cog, E. cog1), + bote , etc., E. boat.] A small boat. See cock4 . No wise man will sail to Ormus in a cock - boat . Jer. Taylor , Works (ed. 1835), I. 872. The camels tripped and stumbled, to ing their litters like cock - boats in a short sea. R. F. Burton , El-Medinah, p. 352.