King James Bible Dictionary

(Matthew 26:34; Mark 13:35; 14:30) etc. The domestic cock and hen were early known to the ancient Greeks and Romans, and as no mention is made in the Old Testament of these birds, and no figures of them occur on the Egyptian monuments, they probably came into Judea with the Romans, who, as is well known, prized these birds both as articles of food and for cock-fighting.

COCK, noun

1. The male of birds, particularly of gallinaceous or domestic fowls, which having no appropriate or distinctive name, are called dunghill fowls or barn-door fowls.

2. A weather-cock; a vane in shape of a cock [It is usually called a weather-cock.]

3. A spout; an instrument to draw out or discharge liquor from a cask, vat or pipe; so named from its projection.

4. The projecting corner of a hat.

5. A small conical pile of hay, so shaped for shedding rain; called in England a cop. When hay is dry and rolled together for carting, the heaps are not generally called cocks, at least not in New England. A large conical pile is called a stack.

6. The style or gnomon of a dial.

7. The needle of a balance.

8. The piece which covers the balance in a clock or watch.

9. The notch of an arrow.

10. The part of a musket or other fire arm, to which a flint is attached, and which, being impelled by a spring, strikes fire, and opens the pan at the same time.

11. A small boat. It is now called a cock-boat, which is tautology, as cock itself is a bot.

12. A leader; a chief man.

Sir Andrew is the cock of the club.

13. Cock-crowing; the time when cocks crow in the morning.

COCK a hoop, or cock on the hoop, a phrase denoting triumph; triumphant; exulting.

COCK and a bull, a phrase denoting tedious trifling stories.

COCK, verb transitive

1. To set erect; to turn up; as, to cock the nose or ears.

2. To set the brim of a hat so as to make sharp corners or points; or to set up with an air of pertness.

3. To make up hay in small conical piles.

4. To set or draw back the cock of a gun, in order to fire.

COCK, verb intransitive

1. To hold up the head; to strut; to look big, pert, or menacing.

2. To train or use fighting cocks.

3. To cocker.

Matthew 26:34; Matthew 26:74-75; Mark 13:35; Mark 14:30; Mark 14:68; Mark 14:72

COCKADE, noun A ribin or knot of ribin, or something similar, worn on the hat, usually by officers of the army or navy, sometimes by others. It most usually designates the military character; sometimes political parties.

COCKADED, adjective Wearing a cockade.

COCKAL, noun A game called huckle bone.

The mediaeval name (a corruption of "crocodile") of a fabulous serpent supposed to be produced from a cock's egg. It is generally supposed to denote the cerastes, or "horned viper," a very poisonous serpent about a foot long. Others think it to be the yellow viper (Daboia xanthina), one of the most dangerous vipers, from its size and its nocturnal habits (Isaiah 11:8; 14:29; 59:5; Jeremiah 8:17; in all which the Revised Version renders the Hebrew tziph'oni by "basilisk"). In Proverbs 23:32 the Hebrew tzeph'a is rendered both in the Authorized Version and the Revised Version by "adder;" margin of Revised Version "basilisk," and of Authorized Version "cockatrice."

A fabulous serpent, figurative.
Isaiah 11:8; Isaiah 14:29; Isaiah 59:5; Jeremiah 8:17

[ADDER]

COCKATRICE, noun A serpent imagined to proceed from a cocks egg.

COCKATTO noun A bird of the parrot kind.

COCK-BILL. In seamens language, the anchor is a cock-bill when it is suspended perpendicularly from the cat-head, ready to be let go in a moment.

COCK-BOAT, noun A small boat. [See Cock, No. 11.]

COCK-BRAINED, adjective Giddy; rash.

COCK-BROTH, noun Broth made by boiling a cock.

COCK-CHAFFER, noun The May-bug or dorr-beetle, a species of Scarabaeus.

In our Lord's time the Jews had adopted the Greek and Roman division of the night into four watches, each consisting of three hours, the first beginning at six o'clock in the evening (Luke 12:38; Matthew 14:25; Mark 6:48). But the ancient division, known as the first and second cock-crowing, was still retained. The cock usually crows several times soon after midnight (this is the first crowing), and again at the dawn of day (and this is the second crowing). Mark mentions (14:30) the two cock-crowings. Matthew (26:34) alludes to that only which was emphatically the cock-crowing, viz, the second.

COCK-CROWING, noun The time at which cocks crow; early morning. Mark 13:1.

COCKER, verb transitive To fondle; to indulge; to treat with tenderness; to pamper.

COCKER, noun

1. One who follows cock-fighting.

2. A sort of spatter-dash.

COCKEREL, noun A young cock.

COCKERING, noun Indulgence.

COCKET, adjective Brisk; pert.

COCKET, noun A seal of the custom-house; a royal seal; rather a scroll of parchment, sealed and delivered by the officers of the customhouse, to merchants, as a warrant that their merchandize is entered. The office of entry.

COCKET-BREAD, noun The finest sort of wheat bread.

COCK-FIGHT,

COCK-FIGHTING, noun A match or contest of cocks; a barbarous sport of the ancients, and moderns, in which cocks are set to fight with each other, till one or the other is conquered.

COCK-HORSE, adjective On horse back; triumphant; exulting.

COCKING, noun Cock-fighting.

Occurs only in Job 31:40 (marg., "noisome weeds"), where it is the rendering of a Hebrew word (b'oshah) which means "offensive," "having a bad smell," referring to some weed perhaps which has an unpleasant odour. Or it may be regarded as simply any noisome weed, such as the "tares" or darnel of Matthew 13:30. In Isaiah 5:2, 4 the plural form is rendered "wild grapes."

A general term for obnoxious plants.
Job 31:40

probably signifies bad weeds or fruit. (Job 31:40)

COCKLE, noun A plant or weed that grows among corn, the cornrose, a species of Agrostemma. It is also applied to the Lolium or darnel.

COCKLE, noun

1. A small testaceous shell; or rather a genus of shells, the Cardium. The general characteristics are; shells nearly equilateral and equivalvular; hinge with two small teeth, one on each side near the beak, and two larger remote lateral teeth, one on each side; prominent ribs running from the hinge to the edge of the valve.

2. A mineral; a name given by the Cornish miners to shirl or shorl.

3. A young cock.

COCKLE, verb intransitive or t. To contract into wrinkles; to shrink, pucker, or wrinkle, as cloth.

COCKLED, participle passive

1. Contracted into folds or wrinkles; winding.

2. Having shells.

COCKLER, noun One that takes and sells cockles.

COCKLE-STAIRS, noun Winding or spiral stairs.

COCK-LOFT, noun [See Cock.] The top-loft; the upper room in a house or other building; a lumber room.

COCK-MASTER, noun One who breeds game cocks.

COCK-MATCH, noun A match of cocks; a cock-fight.

COCKNEY, noun

1. A native of London, by way of contempt.

2. An effeminate, ignorant, despicable citizen.

COCKNEYLIKE, adjective Resembling the manners of a cockney.

COCK-PADDLE, noun The lump fish or sea-owl.

COCKPIT, noun

1. A pit or area, where game cocks fight.

2. In ships of war, a room or apartment, in which the wounded men are dressed; situated near the after-hatchway, under the lower gun-deck. The fore-cockpit is a place leading to the magazine passage and the store room of the boatswain, gunner and carpenter.

COCKROACH, noun A genus of insects, the Blatta, of several species. They have four semicrustaceous wings, and resemble the beetle; the head is inflected towards the breast; the feelers are hard like bristles; the elytra and wings are plain and resemble parchment. These animals are very troublesome, as they enter chests of clothes, meal-tubs, pantries, and infest beds. They avoid the light, and have a very unsavory smell.

COCKSCOMB, noun

1. The caruncle or comb of a cock.

2. A plant. This name is given to the Celosia cristata, the Pedicularis or louse-wort, and the Rhinanthus, or yellow rattle.

3. A fop, or vain silly fellow. [See Coxcomb.]

COCKSHEAD, noun A plant, the Hedysarum or sainfoin.

COCKSHUT, noun The close of the day, when fowls go to roost.

COCKSPUR, noun Virginia hawthorn, a species of medlar.

COCKSURE, adjective Confidently certain.

COCKSWAIN, noun [See Swain.] An officer on board of a ship who has the care of the boat and the boats crew.

COCK-WEED, noun A plant called also dittander and pepperwort.