coxcomb (kokskom)

[For cockscomb, i. e., cock's comb: see cockscomb.] 1. The comb of a cock. See cockscomb, 1.-2. The comb, resembling that of a cock, which licensed fools formerly wore in their caps; hence, the fool's cap itself. There, take my coxcomb . Why, this fellow has banished two of his daughters, and did the third a ble ing against his will; if thou follow him, thou must needs wear my coxcomb . Shak., Lear, i. 4. Here is all We fools can catch the wise in to unknot, By privilege of coxcombs , what they plot. so broad as coxcomb, applying chiefly to one who displays vanity in dre and pertne in conversation, with a ten dency to impertinence in manner. Dandy is applied only haps affectation in dre . An exquisite is one who prides himself upon his superfine taste in dre , manners, language, when a fair judgment would be that his taste who gives exce ive attention elegance per is overwrought, petty, or affected. (See quotation from Bulwer, under exquisite.) Beau is an old name for one who has too much understanding to be a mere dandy, but still overdoes in the matter of dre , sometimes carrying it to an extreme, as Beau Nash, Beau Brummel. Beau Brummel might perhaps be called the typical fop. Most coxcombs are not of the laughing kind; More goes to make a fop than fops can find. Dryden, Pilgrim, Prol., 1. 15. Gods! shall the ravisher display your hair, While the fops erivy and the ladies stare? Pope, R. of the L., iv. 104. The all-importance of clothes has sprung up in the intellect of the dandy without effort, like an instinct of genius. Carlyle, Sartor Resartus, iii. 10. Such an exquisite was but a poor companion for a quiet, plain man like me. T. Hook , Gilbert Gurney. Why round our coaches crowd the white-gloved beaux ? Pope , R. of the L., v. 13. coxcombical, coxcomical (koks-kom'i-kal), a. [ John Lylly, who wrote that singularly coxcomical hip, + Gr. πούς ( ποδ- ), = E. foot, + -ite2.] In Ar thropoda, as a crustacean, the proximal joint of a developed limb by which the limb articulates with its somite or segment of the body. Morphologically it may be a pro to podite, or a coxopodite and a bas i podite together may represent a pro to podite. extract under pro to podite. Milne - Edwards; Huxley. See cut under Pod ophthalmia. See