Definition of cock

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Cock (n.) The bridge piece which affords a bearing for the pivot of a balance in a clock or watch.

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Pavonian :: Pavonian (a.) Of or pertaining to a peacock.
Chafer :: Chafer (n.) A kind of beetle; the cockchafer. The name is also applied to other species; as, the rose chafer..
Bib :: Bib (n.) A bibcock.
Orthoptera :: Orthoptera (n. pl.) An order of mandibulate insects including grasshoppers, locusts, cockroaches, etc. See Illust. under Insect..
Cockneys :: Cockneys (pl. ) of Cockne.
Hammer-less :: Hammer-less (a.) Without a visible hammer; -- said of a gun having a cock or striker concealed from sight, and out of the way of an accidental touch..
Cockle :: Cockle (n.) A hop-drying kiln; an oast.
Dandy-cock :: Dandy-cock (n. fem.) Alt. of Dandy-he.
Nestor :: Nestor (n.) A genus of parrots with gray heads. of New Zeland and papua, allied to the cockatoos. See Kaka..
Cockchafer :: Cockchafer (n.) A beetle of the genus Melolontha (esp. M. vulgaris) and allied genera; -- called also May bug, chafer, or dorbeetle..
Sea Cock :: Sea cock () The black-bellied plover.
Tindal :: Tindal (n.) A petty officer among lascars, or native East Indian sailors; a boatswain's mate; a cockswain..
Halfcocking :: Halfcocking (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Halfcoc.
Halfcocked :: Halfcocked (imp. & p. p.) of Halfcoc.
Argus :: Argus (n.) A fabulous being of antiquity, said to have had a hundred eyes, who has placed by Juno to guard Io. His eyes were transplanted to the peacock's tail..
Battledoor :: Battledoor (n.) An instrument, with a handle and a flat part covered with parchment or crossed with catgut, used to strike a shuttlecock in play; also, the play of battledoor and shuttlecock..
Cockle :: Cockle (n.) A plant or weed that grows among grain; the corn rose (Luchnis Githage).
Halfcock :: Halfcock (v. t.) To set the cock of (a firearm) at the first notch.
Wivern :: Wivern (n.) A fabulous two-legged, winged creature, like a cockatrice, but having the head of a dragon, and without spurs..
Fasciated :: Fasciated (a.) Flattened and laterally widened, as are often the stems of the garden cockscomb..
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