[Obs.] Shak. B. Jonson.
Cockshy
(Cock"shy`) n.
1. A game in which trinkets are set upon sticks, to be thrown at by the players; — so called from an
ancient popular sport which consisted in "shying" or throwing cudgels at live cocks.
2. An object at which stones are flung.
"Making a cockshy of him," replied the hideous small boy.
Dickens.
Cockspur
(Cock"spur) n. (Bot.) A variety of Cratægus, or hawthorn (C. Crus- galli), having long, straight
thorns; — called also Cockspur thorn.
Cocksure
(Cock"sure`) a.
1. Perfectly safe. [Obs.]
We steal as in a castle, cocksure: . . . we walk invisible.
Shak.
2. Quite certain. [Colloq.]
I thought myself cocksure of the horse which he readily promised me.
Pope.
Cockswain
(Cock"swain) n. [Cock a boat + swain; hence, the master of a boat.] The steersman of a
boat; a petty officer who has charge of a boat and its crew.
Cocktail
(Cock"tail`) n.
1. A beverage made of brandy, whisky, or gin, iced, flavored, and sweetened. [U. S.]
2. (Stock Breeding) A horse, not of pure breed, but having only one eighth or one sixteenth impure
blood in his veins. Darwin.
3. A mean, half-hearted fellow; a coward. [Slang, Eng.]
It was in the second affair that poor little Barney showed he was a cocktail.
Thackeray.
4. (Zoöl.) A species of rove beetle; — so called from its habit of elevating the tail.
Cockup
(Cock"up) n. (Zoöl.) A large, highly esteemed, edible fish of India (Lates calcarifer); — also
called begti.
Cockweed
(Cock"weed) n. (Bot.) Peppergrass. Johnson.
Cocky
(Cock"y) a. [See Cocket.] Pert. [Slang]
Coco
(Co"co) n. or Coco palm
(Co"co palm) See Cocoa.
Cocoa
(Co"coa) n., Cocoa palm
(Co"coa palm`) (päm`) [Sp. & Pg. coco cocoanut, in Sp. also, cocoa
palm. The Portuguese name is said to have been given from the monkeylike face at the base of the
nut, fr. Pg. coco a bugbear, an ugly mask to frighten children. Cf., however, Gr. koy^ki the cocoa
palm and its fruit, ko`i:x, ko`i:kos, a kind of Egyptian palm.] (Bot.) A palm tree producing the cocoanut
It grows in nearly all tropical countries, attaining a height of sixty or eighty feet. The trunk is without
