cod fishery

A fishing-ground for cod. "Cod-fisheries on their coasts are another bounteous which harden in the air. instinctively coiled into an ovoid nest round itself, called a cocoon , which serves as a defense against living enemies and changes of temperature."-Ure: Dictionary of Arts, Manufactures, and Mines; Silk. The making of cocoons is not confined to cater pillars of the Lepidoptera. Kirby uses the term of the silken case which spiders spin for the reception of their eggs, and Profe er Owen does so of the structure constructed by the Rivulet Leech, Hirudo vulgar is, to contain its ova. 2. A name for the Bastard Wildebeest, Catoblepas gorgon , a native of South Africa. ( Dallas .) B. As adj.: Pertaining to an insect cocoon of the kind described under No. 1.