cockfighting (kokfi"ting)

and a. I. n. The fighting of cocks as a sport. In a Word, Cock - fighting is an heathenish Mode of Diversion from the first, and at this Day ought certainly to be confined to barbarous Nations. Bourne's Pop. Antiq . (1777), p. 379. In the reign of Edward III. cock - fighting became a fashionable amusement; it was then taken up more seriously than it formerly had been, and the practice extended to grown persons. Strutt, Sports and Pastimes, p. 376. To beat cock-fighting, to go beyond one's expectations; surpa everything. [Colloq.] The Squire faltered out, "Well, this beats cockfighting! the man's as mad as a March hare!" IMG:content-0724.png:[blocks in formation] of iron round wooden shoes) ME. quyver, F. quiver2. Cocker2 is thus a doublet of quiver2, q. v.] 1. A quiver. Enne koker fulne flan [arrows]. Layamon, I. 276. 2. pl . High shoes or half-boots, laced or buttoned. His mittens were of bauzens [badger's] skinne, His cockers were of cordiwin [Cordovan leather], His hood of meniveere. Drayton, Dows a bell. 3. pl . Thick stockings without feet, used as an outside protection for the lower part of the leg. Bootes, cocurs , myttens, mot we were [wear]: For husbondes and hunters all this goode is; For thai mot walk in breres and in woodes. Palladius , Husbondrie (E. E. T. S.), p. 43. 4. pl . Same as cocker megs . cocker2 (kok'ėr), n. [ cock1 + -er1.] 1. A cock-fighter; one who makes a practice of fighting game-cocks, or of training them for fighting. Here his poor bird th' inhuman cocker brings, Arms his hard heel and clips his golden wings. Crabbe, Parish Register. 2. A dog of the spaniel kind, trained to start woodcock and snipe in woods and marshes. et2, cocket-bread.] In England-1. A seal of the custom-house. 2. A scroll of parchment sealed and delivered by the officers of the custom-house to a merchant as a warrant that his merchandise is entered. The foresaid march ants were not wont to pay for a cocket for the conueyance & transportation of their goods out of the real me (albeit many names were written there in) more then 4. d. Hakluyt's Voyages, I. 172. 3. The office of entry.- 4t. A stamp; an official seal of any kind. Cocket1+ (kok'et), v. t. or mark with a cocket. cocket2t (kok'et), n. [ [ No beggere eten bred that benes inne coo me, Bote coket and cler-matin an of clene whete; Ne non halfpeny ale in none wyse drynke. Piers Plowman (A), vii. 292. 2. A loaf or cake of cocket-bread. See first extract under cocket -bread.-3. A measure. See first extract under cocket -bread. The ne'er-do-well sons of cockfighting baronets. Darnel. [Prov. Eng.] The top point of the G. A. Sala , The Ship-Chandler. cock-garden (kok'gar"dn), n. Same as cockle garden . cock gra (kok'grás), n . cock head (kok'hed), n. spindle of a millstone. cock-hedge (kok'hej), n. [Prob. a var. of quick hedge ; cf. ME. cuc, cwuc , var. of cwic , quick.] A quickset hedge. [Prov. Eng.] cockhoop (kok'höp), n. A bullfinch. Eng.] [Prov. cockhorse (kok'hôrs), n. and a. [Appar. orig. a nursery term; cf. E. dial. cop - horse, a child's name for a horse, a toy horse. The allusion to cock1 is prob. fanciful, though some would find here a survival of an ancient myth, connecting the term with the griffin myth and the fabulous ἱππαλεκτρυών, 'horse-cock,' in Æschylus and Aris toph anes.] I. n. A child's rocking-horse or hobby-horse: commonly used in the adverbial phrase on cockhorse, a - cockhorse, on horseback, or as if on horseback (as when a child rides on a broomstick); hence, in an elevated position; elated; on the high horse. Abated to an ebb so low that boys A ' -cock-horse frisk'd about me without plunge. cocket3t (kok'et), a . and n. [Also cocket, coc- quet ; appar. (with ref. perhaps to cockish , cocky ) coquet , a little cock (dim. of coq , a cock) (> coqueter , chuck as a cock, swagger, strut), mod. F. coquet , coquette, coquet: see coquet.] horse, and then he will go presently. I. a. Brisk; pert; saucy. Ford, Lady's Trial, iii. 3. When you would have a Child go to such a place, and you find him unwilling, you tell him he shall ride a Cock- Selden, Table-Talk, p. 96. IMG:content-0725.png:[blocks in formation] their shells to receive the falling dew-drops, which thus 3. A univalve mollusk of the family Muricida; the murex or purple-fish. There are cockles in great numbers, with which they dye a scarlet colour so strong and fair that neither the it, and the older it is, the better it looks. cockhorse (kok' hôrs), adv. [ Alma, they strenuously maintain, Sits Cock - Horse on her Throne the Brain. Prior , Alma, i. A huge fellow, with one eye closed and half his whiskers burned by the explosion of powder, was riding cock - horse N. A. Rev. , CXXVI. 259. on a gun. cockie-leekie (kok'i-lē'ki), n. [Sc., also written cooky - leeky and cock - a - leekie, a loose dim. compound of cock1 + leek.] Soup made of a cock or other fowl boiled with leeks.