cockle1 (kokl)

[ His enmye came and sew aboue dernel or cokil . Cokylle, wede, nigella, lollium, zizania. Wyclif , Mat. xiii. 25. Prompt . Parv ., p. 86. Let thistles grow instead of wheat, and cockle instead of barley. Job xxx i. 40. Such were the first weak steps of the fathers of our language, who, however, culled for us many a flower among their cockle. I. D'Israeli , Amen. of Lit., I. 312. 2. The corn-rose or corn-cockle, Lychnis ( Agro stemma) Githago. The sorting together of Wools of seuerall natures. causeth cloth to cockle and lie vneuen. Hakluyt's Voyages, II. 162. Parchment does not cockle unle wet through. Workshop Receipts , 2d ser., p. 251. 2. To rise into frequent ridges, as the waves of a chopping sea. Ripling and cockling seas. Dampier, Voyages, II. iii. 5. A short cockling sea which must very soon have bulged Cook, Voyages, I. iii. 7. the ship. It [Ma achusetts Bay] is both safe, spacious, and deep, land and in the channels of England. free from such cockling seas as run upon the coast of Ire Quoted in Tyler's Amer. Lit., I. 173. 3. To make a slight score on the cogs or teeth of a mill, as a guide for cutting off their ends, so that the whole may be given a truly circular form. II. trans. To cause to pucker in wrinkles: as, rain will cockle silk. Showers soon drenched the camlet's cockled grain. Gay , Trivia, i. 46. When heated and plunged in water or oil, they are curled and cockled in all shapes [articles of steel]. Sci . Amer., N. S., LVI. 251. cockle3 (kok'l), n. [F. coquille, a kind of grate or stove, also lit. a shell: see cockle2 .] 1. The body or fire-chamber of an air-stove, usually made of fire-brick. - 2. A kind of kiln or stove for drying hops.-3. In porcelain - manuf ., a large stove used for drying biscuit-ware which has been dipped in glaze, preparatory to burn cockle2 (kok'l), n. [ cokel , perhaps dim. of * cok , cocke , a shell (see cock8 ); otherwise OF. (and F.) coquille, a shell, cockle, = Sp. cockle4+ (kok'l), n. [Dim. of cock1. Cf. cock coquillo = It. cochiglia, conchylious), F. coque, a cockle, a shell: see cockle1, cockles, cocks, and conch.] 1. A mollusk of the family Cardiida and genus Cardium; especially, the common edible species of Europe, Cardium edule; the shell of such mollusks. -2. An equivalve bivalve, resembling or related to mollusks of the genus Cardi um. (a) A bivalve mollusk of the family Myidæ, Mya truncata: so called in the He brides; more fully called lady-cockle. (b) A bivalve mollusk of the family Pecti nid a; the scallop. (ct) The oyster. Common Cockle ( Cardium edule). And as the cockille, with heauenly dewe so clene Of kynde, engender eth white perl is rounde. cockling. [Cf. cockle4, n., and cock1, n.] To cry like a cock. [Prov. Eng.] cockle-boat (kok'I-bōt), n. Same as cockboat. cockle-brained (kok'l-brand), a. [Appar.