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Cockle :: Cockle (n.) The fire chamber of a furnace.

Vane :: Vane (n.) A contrivance attached to some elevated object for the purpose of showing which way the wind blows; a weathercock. It is usually a plate or strip of metal, or slip of wood, often cut into some fanciful form, and placed upon a perpendicular axis around which it moves freely..

Cocket :: Cocket (n.) Pert; saucy.

Tindal :: Tindal (n.) A petty officer among lascars, or native East Indian sailors; a boatswain's mate; a cockswain..

Dub :: Dub (v. t.) To prepare for fighting, as a gamecock, by trimming the hackles and cutting off the comb and wattles..

Nab :: Nab (n.) The cock of a gunlock.

Cockhorse :: Cockhorse (a.) Lifted up, as one is on a tall horse..

Cockade :: Cockade (n.) A badge, usually in the form of a rosette, or knot, and generally worn upon the hat; -- used as an indication of military or naval service, or party allegiance, and in England as a part of the livery to indicate that the wearer is the servant of a military or naval officer..

Argus Shell :: Argus shell () A species of shell (Cypraea argus), beautifully variegated with spots resembling those in a peacock's tail..

Ready :: Ready (superl.) A word of command, or a position, in the manual of arms, at which the piece is cocked and held in position to execute promptly the next command, which is, aim..

Halfcock :: Halfcock (v. t.) To set the cock of (a firearm) at the first notch.

Cock :: Cock (n.) The crow of a cock, esp. the first crow in the morning; cockcrow..

Cockle :: Cockle (n.) A hop-drying kiln; an oast.

Anemoscope :: Anemoscope (n.) An instrument which shows the direction of the wind; a wind vane; a weathercock; -- usually applied to a contrivance consisting of a vane above, connected in the building with a dial or index with pointers to show the changes of the wind..

Fasciated :: Fasciated (a.) Flattened and laterally widened, as are often the stems of the garden cockscomb..

Drummer :: Drummer (n.) A large West Indian cockroach (Blatta gigantea) which drums on woodwork, as a sexual call..

Bibb :: Bibb (n.) A bibcock. See Bib, n., 3..

Cockchafer :: Cockchafer (n.) A beetle of the genus Melolontha (esp. M. vulgaris) and allied genera; -- called also May bug, chafer, or dorbeetle..

Xanthium :: Xanthium (n.) A genus of composite plants in which the scales of the involucre are united so as to form a kind of bur; cocklebur; clotbur.

Dandy-cock :: Dandy-cock (n. fem.) Alt. of Dandy-he.

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