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Flowing with fire. [Obs.] Cockerman.

Incapable or undeserving of being deprecated. Cockeram.

The cold water thrown into a condenser. Injection cock, or Injection valve (Steam Eng.), the cock or valve through which cold water is admitted into a condenser. -- Injection condenser. See under Condenser. -- Injection pipe, the pipe through which cold water is through into the condenser of a steam engine.…

Unpleassantness; disagreeableness. [Obs.] Cockeram.

To stimulate; to excite. [Obs.] Cockerman.

Anointed. [Obs.] Cockeram.

a large, bright-colored spot on each hind wing, resembling the spots on the tail of a peacock. The larva is covered with prickly hairs, which sting like nettles.

A small European snipe (Limnocryptes gallinula); -- called also judcock, jedcock, juddock, jed, and half snipe.

Droll; sportive. [Obs.] Cockeram.

gle bear (Zoöl.), the aswail or sloth bear. -- Jungle cat (Zoöl.), the chaus. -- Jungle cock (Zoöl.), the male of a jungle fowl. -- Jungle fowl. (Zoöl.) (a) Any wild species of the genus Gallus, of which several species inhabit India and the adjacent islands; as, the fork-tailed jungle fowl (G. varius) of Java, G. S…

One of the early discovered asteroids. Bird of June, the peacock.

A melody; any musical utterance. The throstle cock made eke his lay. Chaucer.

lights on that, and this, and tasteth all. Sir. J. Davies. On the tree tops a crested peacock lit. Tennyson.

te and form a ventral sucker for adhesion to stones and seaweeds. Called also lumpsucker, cock-paddle, sea owl.

as wicks for lamps. The botanical name is in common use for the garden species. The corn cockle (Lychnis Githago) is a common weed in wheat fields.

Shaped like a lyre, as the tail of the blackcock, or that of the lyre bird.

A match at cockfighting. "My lord would ride twenty miles . . . to see a main fought." Thackeray.

Majestic. [Obs.] E. Pocock. Dr. J. Scott.

To furnish with a distinct margin; to margin. [R.] Cockeram.

To make strong. [Obs.] Cockeram.