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COCK'HORSE, adj. On horfeback; triumphant 5 ex¬ 
ulting: ' 
Alma, they ftrerfuoufly maintain, 
Sits cockborfe an her’ throne the brain. Prior. 
COC'KLE,/. [cbquille, Fr.] A fmall teftaceous fifh. 
See the article Cardium.—W e may, I think, from the 
make of an oylter, or cockle, reafonably conclude, that it 
has not fo many, nor lo quick, lenfes as a man, Locke.— 
A little or young cock. Obfolete: 
They bearen the crag fo ftilF and fo Hate, 
As cockle on his dunghill crowing crank. Spenfer. 
COC'KLE, f. A term among the‘Cornilh miners, for 
the fubftance called fchorl, or Jhirl. 
COC'KLE, /. [coccel, Sax. lolium, zizania, Lat.] A 
weed that grows in corn, the fame with corn-role. Seer 
Agrostemma. 
Good feed degenerates, and oft obeys 
The foil's difeafe, and into cockle ft ray si- Donne. 
To COC'KLE, <v. a. To contraft into wrinkles, like 
the (hell of a cockle.—Show’rs foon drench the camblet’s 
cockled grain. Gay. 
COC'KLE-SHELL BAY, a bay on the eaft coaft of 
the ill and of' St. Chriftopher. Lat. 17. 22. N. Ion. 62. 22. 
W. Greenwich. 
COC'KLE-STAIRS,/ Winding or fpiral ftairs. Cbanth . 
COC'KLED, adj. Shelled-; or perhaps cochleate, tur¬ 
binated : 
Love’s feeling is more foft ancl fenfible 
Than are- the tender horns of cockled fnails. Shakefpeare. 
COCK'LOFT, /. The room over the garret, in which 
fowls are fuppofed to rooft ; unlefs it be rather corrupted 
from coploft, the cop or top of the houfe 
If the loweft floors already burn, 
Cocklofts and garrets foon will take their turn. Dryden. 
COCK'MASTER, f One that breeds game-cocks.— 
A cockmafler bought a partridge, and turned it among the 
fighting cocks. L’EJlrange. 
COCK'MATCH, f. A cockfight for a prize. When a 
match is made with feveral cocks en each fide, it is called 
amain of cocks, or fighting a main. —Though quail-fight¬ 
ing is what is molt taken notice of, they had doubtlefs 
cockmatches alfo. Arbuthnot. 
COCK'NEY. f. [A word of which the original is much 
controverted. The French ufe an expreflion, pais de 
cocaigne, for a country of dainties r Paris efi pour un riche 
un pais de cogaigne. Roileau. Of this word they are not 
able to fettle the original. It appears, whatever was its 
fir ft ground, to be very ancient, being mentioned in an 
©Id Normanno-Saxon poem: 
Far in fee by weft Spayng, 
Is a lond yhote cocayng. 
On which Dr. Hickes has this remark : Nunc coquin, co- 
quine: quae olim apud Gallos, otio, gulae, et ventri dedi- 
tos, igr.avum, igna-vam, defidiofum, defidiofam , fegnem, fig- 
nificabant. Hinc urbanos, ufpote a ruiticis laboribus ad 
■vitam fedentarium et defidiofam avocatos, pagani noftri 
olim cokaignes, quod nunc fcribitur cockneys vocabant." Et 
poeta hie nofter in monachos & moniales, ut fegne genus 
hominum qui, defidise dediti, ventri indulgebant, & co- 
quinse amatores erant, malevolentilfime invehitur; mona- 
fteria & rnonafticam vitam inde feriptione terras cockainece 
parabolice perftringens.] A native of London, by way of 
contempt.—So the cockney did to the eels', when file put 
them i’ th’ pally alive. Shakefpeare , 
For who is fuch a cockney in his heart, 
Proud of the plenty of the louthern part, 
To fcorn that union, by wdiich w r e may 
Boaft ’twas his countryman that writ this play? Dorfet. 
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Any effeminate, ignorant, low, mean, defpicable, citi¬ 
zen.—I am afraid this great lubber the world will prove 
a cockney. Shakefpeare. 
COCK'PIT, f. The area where cocks fight.—And 
now have I gained the cockpit of the weftern world, ar.d 
academy of arms, for many years. Howcl. —A place on 
the lower deck of a man of war, where are lubdivifions 
■ for the purfer, the furgeon, and his mates. Harris. 
COCK'ROACIi; f. in entomology. See Blatta. 
COCK'SHUT, f. The dole of the evening, at which 
time poultry go to rooft: 
Surrey and’himfelf) 
Much about cockfh'ut time, from troop to troop 
Went through the army. Shakefpeare, 
COCIC'SPUR, f in botany, Virginian hawthorn, or 
wild fervice-tree. See 0 Ra t jb g u s . 
COCK'SURE, ad-v. Confidently certain; without fear 
or diffidence. A word’of contempt. —I thought myfelfrocf- 
fure of his liorfe, which he readily pronviled 'me. Pope. 
COCK'SVVAIN, or Cockson, f [cog^ypaine, Sax.] 
An officer on-board a man of war, who hath the care of 
the cockboat, of (loop, and all things belonging to it. 
He is to be ready with his boat’s crew, to man the boat 
on all occafions. He fits in the ftern of the boat, and 
fteers; and hath a wliiftle to call and encourage his men. 
COCK'WEED, f. The name of a plant; called alfid 
ditlander, or peppernuort. 
COC'LES (Pub. Horat.) a' celebrated Roman, who 
alone oppofed the whole army of Po:fenna at the head of 
a bridge, while bis companions behind him were cutting 
off the communication with the other Ihore. When the 
bridge ,was deftroyed, Codes, though wounded by the 
darts of the enemy, leaped into the Tiber, and twain 
acrol’s it with his arms. A brazen ftatue was raifed. to 
him in the temple of Vulcan, by the coniul Publicola, lor 
his eminent fervices. Livy. 
CO'COA, or Cocoa Nut,/, in botany. See Cocos. 
CO'COA PLUM,/, in botany. See Chrysobal an us, 
CO'COA POINT, a cape on the coaft of the ifland of 
Tinian. 
CO'COA-NUT ISLAND, a fmall ifland at the en¬ 
trance of Carteret’s Harbour, on the fouth-eaft coaft of 
New Ireland. 
CQCONA'TO, a town of Italy, in the principality of 
Piedmont: four miles fouth of Crefcentio. 
COCOR'TO, a town of Afra, in the country of Thibet? 
fifty miles fouth-fouth-weft of Tchontori. 
CO'COS, /. [the fruit is called by the POrtuguefe coco 
and coquetv, from the three holes at the end of the (hell, 
giving it the appearance of a monkey’s head.] In botany, 
a genus of the clafs monoecia, order hexandriS, natural 
order of palms. The generic charafters are—Male flow¬ 
ers in the lame fpadix with the females. Calyx: fpathe 
univerfal, univalve; .fpadix branching; perianthium three- 
parted, very fin all; divifions fubtriquetrous, concave, co¬ 
loured. Corolla: petals three, ovate, acute, patulous. 
Stamina: filaments fix, limple, length of the corolla ,> 
antherae fagittate. Pirtillum : germ fcarcely manifelt 5 
ftyles three, fliort; ftigma obfolete. Pericarpium: abor- 
tient. Female flowers cn the fame fpadix with the males. 
Calyx: fpathe common with the hermaphrodites, as like- - 
wile the fpadix ; perianthium three-parted ; divifions 
roundilh, concave, converging, coloured, permanent. 
Corolla: petals three, permanent, 1 like the‘calyx, but' 
rather larger. Piftillum : germ ovate; ftyle none; ftig¬ 
ma three-lobed. Pericarpium: drupe coriaceous, very 
large, roundilh, obfeurely triangular. Seed: nut very 
large, fubovate, acuminate, one-celled, valvelefs, obtufe- 
ly three-cornered, the bafe perforated by three holes 
kernel hollow.— EJfential Char after. Male, Calyx, three- 
parted 5 corolla, three-petalled; ftaminas, fix. Female. 
Calyx, five-parted; corolla, three-petalled; ltigmas threej 
drupe coriaceous. 
Species .■ x, Cocos nucifera, or cocoa-nut-tree : un¬ 
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