cocklochet

See cock loach. cockloft (kok'lôft), n. [ My garrets, or rather my cock - lofts , are indifferently furnished. Swift . cock-master (kokʼmåster), n. One who breeds or trains game-cocks. A cock master bought a partridge, and turned it among the fighting cocks. Sir R. L'Estrange. prize. Add is on. cock-match (kok'mach), n. A cock-fight for a prize. cockmate (kok'māt), n. A mate; companion. Not disdayning their cock mates or refraining their com- Lyly , Euphues, Anat. of Wit, p. 145. pany. cock-metal (kok'metal), n. A soft alloy com- posed of 2 parts of copper and 1 part of lead. It is used for large ve els and measures, and for taps or cocks. Also cock - bra . cock-nest (kok'nest), n. A nest built by a male bird and not used for incubation. Such structures are commonly made by various wrens, as the common long-billed marsh-wren of the United States, Cistothorus or Telmatodytes palustris , for no known purpose, unle it be for a roosting-place or kind of play-house. The male wren (Troglodytes) of North America builds cock- nests to roost in, like the males of our kitty-wrens a habit wholly unlike that of any other known bird. Darwin , Origin of Species (ed. 1885), p. 234. cockney (kok'ni), n . and a . [Early mod. E. also cockneye, cocknaye, cocknaie ; cockney , cocknaye, cokeney, cokenay, coknay (see definitions). The origin has been much disputed, the form and sense of the word having become IMG:content-0726.jpg:[graphic] entangled with those of other words related only remotely or not at all, namely: (1) cock1 , as in the desperate etym. ("Doth the cock neigh, too?") mentioned by Minsheu; (2) cock- et3, cockish , cocky , etc., with allusion to pertne or conceit; (3) Cockaigne , Cockayne , an imagi- nary country of idlene and luxury, supposed (erroneously) to be related, whence its second meaning, 'cockneydom'; (4) cocker4 , cock9 , and coax , v ., pamper, fondle, akin in sense but appar. not in origin. The only solution of cockney pho- netically satisfactory is historically unsupport- ed, namely, coquiné (ML. * coquinatus ), taken in some such sense as 'a vagabond who hangs around the kitchen,' or 'a child brought up in the kitchen,' or 'a child fed in the kitchen, a pampered child. The word would then be closely connected with OF. coquiner , beg (>co- quin (ML. coquinus , ME. cokin ), a beggar, a rogue, F. a rogue, a rascal, coquinerie , beggary, F. roguery, coquineau , a scoundrel), coquina , a kitchen (> ult. E. kitchen ), coquus , a cook, > ult. E. cook1 : see cook1 and kitchen .] I. n. 1t. A spoiled child; hence, a foolish or effeminate person; a simpleton: often used as a term of reproach without a very clear sign i- fication. I bring vp lyke a cocknaye , je mignotte. I sal be halde a daf, a cokenay . Ne no kokenay [var. cokeney (C), cockneyes (A)], by Cryst, coloppes for to maken. Piers Plowman (B), vi. 287. At that fest thay wer servyd with a ryche aray, Every fyve & fyve had cokenay . cockneyfy (kok'ni-fi), v . t .; pret. and an pp. cock- neyfied , ppr. cockneyfying . [ cockney , 3, + -fy .] To make like a cockney. [Colloq.] cockneyish (kok'ni-ish), a. [ cockney + -ish1 .] Relating to or like cockneys. cockneyism (kok'ni-izm), n. [ Tom... recognised the woman's Berks hire accent be- neath its coat of cockneyism . cockodrillet, n. See crocodile . cock paidle (kok'pā"dl), n . [Sc., also written cock paddle ; origin obscure.] A name of the common lumpsucker, Cyclopterus lump us . cock-penny (kok'pen"i), n. See the extracts. The payments were usually made at Shrove tide under the name of Cock - pence , as the master [of Cartmel gram- mar-school], as a sort of return for the compliment made to him, provided a cock for the sport of his scholars. Formerly an admi ion fee [to the free grammar-school at Burnley] was paid, and a cock - penny at Shrove tide; but, in lieu of these, the master is now allowed to make a charge of from four to six guineas a-year for each boy, for writing, arithmetic, etc. Baines , Hist. Lancashire, II. 34. cockpit (kok'pit), n. pit or inclosed place used for cock-fighting. And now I have gained the cockpit of the Western world, 2. Formerly, an apartment under the lower gun-deck of a ship of war, forming quarters for junior officers, and during a battle devoted to the surgeon and his a istants and patients. - 3. A room in Westminster in which the Eng- lish Privy Council hold their sittings: so called from its occupation of the site of the former cockpit of the palace at White hall. He [Brougham] threatened to sit often at the cockpit , in order to check Leach, who, though a good judge in his own court, was good for nothing in a court of appeal. Greville, Memoirs, Nov. 22, 1830. Can this cockpit hold The vasty fields of France? or may we cram Within this wooden O the very casques That did affright the air at Agin court? IMG:content-0727.png:[blocks in formation] He [Sterling] called Cruikshank the Raphael of Cockney- Caroline Fox , Journal, p. 144. cockneyfication (kok"ni-fi-kā'shon), n . [ cock- neyfy : see - fy and- ation .] The act of subject- ing, or the state of being subjected, to the ways and influences of London or of the London ers. With regard to most romantic sites in England, there is a sort of average cockneyfication with which you must make your account. H. James, Jr., Portraits of Places, p. 248. cotquean.] Same as cotqucan . Warner. cockroach (kok'rōch), n. [Formerly cockroche , an accom. of Sp. cucaracha , a wood-louse, a cockroach, = Pg. * cacaroucha , caroucha , a bee- tle.] The popular name of the insects of the orthopterous genus Blatta , in a broad sense comprising several species, of which B. ( Peri- planet a ) oriental is, the common cockroach or black beetle, may be regard- ed as the type. They have parch- ment-like elytra, and in the female the wings are im- perfectly devel- oped. They are nocturnal in their habits, and are very troublesome in houses, where they often multi- ply with great rapidity, infesting kitchens and pan- tries, and attack- ing provisions of all kinds. They ter. E. P. Wright .-4. In and an at ., the crista gall i of the ethmoid bone. See crista.-5. In lace- making , a bride. See bride2 , 2.-6. A fop; a vain silly fellow: in this sense usually written coxcomb (which see). If the enemy is an a , and a fool, and a prating Cox- comb. Shak., Hen. V., iv. 1. 7. Naut . , a notched cleat on the yard-arm of a IMG:content-0728.png:[blocks in formation] IMG:content-0729.png:[blocks in formation] cocks (koks), n. [Prob. pl. of cock1 .] A com mon name in some parts of England for the ribwort, Plant a go lanceolata , from a children's game in which the flower-spikes are fought against each other like cocks in a cock-fight. cockscomb (koks'kōm), n. [Also written (in def. 6 usually) coxcomb ; kokys coom, etc.; cock's , po . of cock1 , + comb1.] 1. The comb or caruncle of a cock. There ben white Gees, rede aboute the Nekke, and the i han a gret Crest, as a Cokkes Comb upon hire Hedes. Mandeville , Travels, p. 207. 2. A name given to flowering plants of various genera. By gardeners it is properly confined to Celosia cristata (see cut under Celosia ), but it is also applied to some similar species of Amarant us , as well as to the yel- low-rattle, Rhinanthus Crista - gall i , from the shape of its calyx, and locally to several other plants. In the West Indies the name is given to the Erythrina Crista - gall i , on account of its crest-like corolla. 3. A kind of oyster, Ostræa crista gall i , having both valves plaited. laited. Also called cockscomb - oys- 2. Confidently or absolutely sure or certain. Hold! I forbid the Banns; you shan't have her, mun, for all you are so cock -sure. Mrs. Cent livre, The Man's Bewitch'd, v. The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia: The Century dictionary cock-sure (kok'shör), adv. [ We steal as in a castle, cocksure ; we have the receipt of fern-seed, we walk invisible. Shak., 1 Hen. IV., ii. 1. cock-surene (kok'shör-nes), n. Confident certainty. Of all the dangerous mental habits, that which schoolboys call cocksurene is probably the most perilous. Huxley , Sensation and Sensiferous Organs. cockswain, coxswain (kok's wan; colloq. kok sn), n. [Also contr. cocks on, cox on; its crew under an officer. Their majesties, Lord Carteret, and Sir John Norris, embarked in Sir John's barge, and his captain steered the boat as coxswain . A. Drummond, Travels, p. 70.