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Cockcrowing; a note of the time in a morning.—We 
were caroufing till the fecond cock. Shakcfpeare. —A cock¬ 
boat 5 a fmall boat: 
The fifhermen, that walk upon the beach. 
Appear like mice; and.yond tall anchoring bark, 
Diminilh’d to her cock-, tier cock a buoy, 
Almoft too fmall for fight. Shakefpeare. 
A fmall heap of hay. [Properly cop.'] —As foon as the dew 
is off' .he ground, Ipread the hay again, and turn it, that 
it may wither on the other fide; then handle it, and, if 
you find it dry, make it up into cocks. Mortimer. —The 
form of a hat, [from the comb of the cock.]—You fee 
many a fmart rhetorician turning his hat in his hands, 
moulding it into feyeral different cocks. Addifon. —The ftyle 
or gnomon of a dial. Chambers.-— The needle of a balance. 
Cock on the Hoop, Triumphant; exulting: 
Now I'm a frilker all men on me look; 
What (hould I do but fet cock on the hoop? Camden's Rem. 
For Hudibras, who thought h* had won 
The field, as certain as a gun, 
And. having routed the whole troop. 
With viftory was cock a hoop. Hudibras. 
To COCK, v. a. To fet ereft ; to hold bolt upright as 
a cock holds his head.—This is that mufcle which per¬ 
forms the motion fo often mentioned by the Latin poets, 
when they talk of a man’s cocking his nofe, or playing the 
rhinoceros. Addifon. —To fet up the hat with an air of 
petulance and pertnefs: 
Dick, who thus long had paflive fat. 
Here ftrok’d his chin and cock'd his hat. Prior . 
To mould the form of the hat. To fix the cock of a gun 
ready for a difcharge.—Some of them holding up their 
iftols, cocked, near the door -of the houfe, which they, 
ept open. Dryden. —To raife hay in fmall heaps: 
Sike mirth in May is meeteft for to make. 
Or fummer lhade, under the cocked hay. Spenfer . 
To COCK, v.n. To ftrut; to hold up the head, and 
look big, or menacing, or pert: 
Sir Fopling is a fool fo nicely writ, 
The ladies would miltake him fo & r a wit; 
And when he fings, talks loud, and cocks, would cry, 
I vow, methinks, he’s pretty company. Dryden. 
To train or ufe fighting cocks.—Cries out ’gainft cocking, 
fince he cannot bet. Ben Jonfon. 
“ Every Cock is proud on his own dunghill.” Gallus 
infuo Jlerquilinio plurimitm poteji. Lat. Chien fur fon futnier 
eji bardi. Fr. Cad a gdllo cant a (crows) en fu niuladar. Sp. 
This proverb is uled to fiiew that it is a fign of cowardice, 
and by no means of true courage, when any one ftruts, 
menaces, or infults, when he knows he is lure of pro- 
teftion, or out of the reach of his antagonifi. 
The cock, hieroglvphically, denotes a noble difpofi- 
tion of mind, there being no bird of a more generous and 
undaunted courage at the fight of imminent danger. 
COCK’s-CGMB, f. in botany. See Celosia. 
COCK’s-FOOT GRASS, f in botany. See Dactylis. 
COCK’s-HEAD, f. in botany. See Hedysarum. 
COCK'ADE, f. A ribbon worn in the hat. 
COCK'AIN (Sir Alton), was a native of Alhbourn in 
Derbyfhire, where his anceftors had been long feated, and 
pofleffed great eftates. He ftudied at Oxford, and was 
fellow of Trinity-college, Cambridge. After refiding 
fome time in the inns of court, he went abroad with fir 
Kenelm Digby. The politenefs of his manners, his love 
cf the liberal arts, and his vein of poetry, though not of 
the purelt kind, gained him much efteem. His being of 
the church of Rome gained him many enemies: this, 
together with his convivial difpofition, and total negleft 
of economy, reduced him to fell his eftate; he had however 
the prudence to referve an annuity for himfelf. He died 
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in 1684, aged feventy-eight. He wrote four plays, feve- 
ral poems, and a romance entitled Dianea, tranflated out 
of Italian. 
COCK'ATRICE,/. [from cock, and arcejt, Sax. a fer- 
pent.] A ferpent fabuloufly fuppofed to rife from a cock’s 
egg. It is ufed as a word of reproach.—This cockatrice 
is fooneft crulhed in the lhell; but, if it grows, it turns 
to a ferpent and a dragon. Taylor. 
COCK'BOAT, f. A fmall boat belonging to a fhip.— 
That invincible armada, which having not fired a cottage 
of ours at land, nor taken a cockboat of ours at fea, wan¬ 
dered through the wildernefs of the northern feas. Bacon. 
CQCK'BROTH, f. Broth made by boiling a cock.— 
D et upon lpoon-meats ; as veal or cockbroths prepared 
with French barley. Harvey. 
COCK'BURN (Catharine), daughter of captain David 
Trotter, a Scots gentleman in the navy, born in 1679. 
She gave early proofs of a poetic imagination, by the 
produftion of three tragedies and a comedy, which were 
all afted ; the firft of them in her feventeenth year. But 
her talents were not limited to poetry, the had a deep 
philofophical turn of mind; the engaged in controverfy, 
and defended Mr. Locke’s opinions againft Dr. Burnet of 
the Charter-houfe, and Dr. Holdfworth. She was induced 
to turn Roman catholic when very young, but returned 
from that faith in her riper years. In 1708 (he married 
Mr. Cockburn, the fon of an eminent Scots divine, when 
the cares of a family diverted her from her Itudies for 
near twenty years; which (he neverthelefs refumed with 
vigour. She died in 1749, an< i ^ er works are collefted 
in 2 vols. 8vo. 
COCK'BURN, a townlhip of the American States, in 
the northern part of New Hampihire, Grafton county, on 
the eall bank of Conne6ticut river, fouth of Colebrook. 
COCK'BURN ISLANDS, a group of fmall illands, 
near the north-eaft coaft of New Holland. 
COCK'BURNPATH, a filhing town of Scotland, 01* 
the fea-coaft of the county of Berwick: fourteen miles 
north-well: of Berwick, and eight fouth-eaft of Dunbar. 
COCKCRCEWING.yi The time at which cocks crow; 
the morning.—Ye know not when the mailer of the houfe 
cometh ; at even, or at midnight, or at the cockcrowing, 
or in the morning. Mark. 
To COC'KER, v. a. [coqueliner , Fr.] To cade; to fon¬ 
dle ; to indulge.—He that will give his fon fugar-plume 
to make him learn, does but authorize his love of plea- 
fure, and corker up that propenfity which he ought t@ 
fubdue. Locke. 
COCK'ER, a river of England, which runs into the 
Derwent, at Cockermouth. 
COCK'ER, f. One who follows the fport of cock- 
fighting. 
COCK'EREL, f. A young cock : 
What wilt thou be, young cockerel, when thy fpurs 
Are grown to lharpnefs ? Dryden . 
COCK'ERMOUTH, a borough-town in the county of 
Cumberland, on the river Cocker, from whence it de¬ 
rives its name, and by which it is divided into two parts 
nearly equah; the church, market-place, and cattle, being 
fituate on the call fide, and the other part on the fouth- 
welt. The caftle Hands on the conflux of the rivers Der¬ 
went and Cocker, upon an eminence which commands 
an extenfive and beautiful profpeft. Its ruins are much 
admired ; and on the gates are the arms of the Multons, 
Umfrevilles, Lucys, and Percys; but they are now partly 
defaced.. The approach has been kept by a draw-bridge 
over a deep fofs. The gateway appears to be more mo¬ 
dern than any other part of the building, is vaulted with 
Norman Gothic arches, and defended with a portcullis, 
over which is a lofty tower. Authors differ about the 
founder of this caftle, though they agree that it was built 
foon after the conqtieft. The fituation of Cockermouth 
is altogether very beautiful, being watered by two fine 
rivers. Beneath the Derwent is a plain of confiderable 
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