crocodile (krokodil)

and a. [Early mod. E. also crocodil; altered, to suit the mod. F. and L., from ME. coco drill, cokadrill, cokedril, etc., = Pr. cocodrilh = Sp. Pg. cocodrilo = It. cocco drillo = MHG. kokodrille (ML. coco drill us, coca drill us), etc., corrupted from the normal form, now in part restored, F. crocodile = Sp. Pg. It. crocodilo = D. krokodil = G. krokodil = Dan. krokodille = Sw. krokodil, κροκόδειλος, a lizard, a crocodile; ulterior origin unknown. Cf. cockatrice.] I. n. 1. An animal of the order Crocodilia, and especially of the family Crocodilida (see these words). The name, originally signifying some large lizard, was first specifically given to the Nile crocodile, Crocodilus niloticus or vul Crocodile (Crocodilus niloticus). garis, the member of the order which has been longest and best known, and was afterward extended to sundry related species. Thus, the Gangetic crocodile is the gavial, Gari alis gang etic us. A true crocodile, Crocodilus american us, occurs in Florida. Süme men seyn, that whan the i will gadre the Peper, the i maken Fuyr, and brennen aboute, to make the Serpentes and the Coked rilles to flee. Mandeville, Travels, p. 169. 2. In logic, a sophism of counter-questioning. Thus, in the old example, a crocodile has stolen a child, and promises to restore it to the father if the latter an valve can cutaneous down over them. The skin is loricate, the dermal armor consisting of bony scutes covered with epidermal scales of corresponding form; the anus is longitudinal, as in B os (?) Pa ase Pa 80 -inel.] Like a crocodile. Crocodilini (krok"ō-di-li'nī), n. pl . [NL., Crocodilia . Oppel , 1811. crocodilitet (krok'ō-di-lit), n. [ crocodile + -ite2.] A sophism of cro -questioning. See crocodile , 2. The crocodolite is when, being deceived by some crafty manner of questioning, we do admit that which our adversary turneth again upon us, to our own hindrance, as in the fable of the crocodile, whereof this name crocodo lite proceed eth. Blundeville, 1599. crocodility (krok-ō-dil'i-ti), n. [ -ity .] In logic , a captious or sophistical mode of arguing. See crocodile , 2. [Rare.] Crocodilurus (krok"ō-di-lū'rus), n. [NL., Gr. κροκόδειλος, crocodile, + οὐρά , tail.] A genus of fi ilingual lizards, of the family Ameivida . Crocodilus (krok-ō-dī'lus), n. [NL., dilus , crocodile.] The typical genus of the family Crocodilida.