COCKTAIL

n.

4 definitions — Webster’s Dictionary (1828)


1.
n.

A beverage made of brandy, whisky, or gin, iced, flavored, and sweetened. [U. S.]

2.
n.

A horse, not of pure breed, but having only one eighth or one sixteenth impure blood in his veins. Darwin.

3.
n.

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.
n.

A species of rove beetle; -- so called from its habit of elevating the tail.


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