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A fossil track resembling that of a bird. Hitchcock.

An order of mandibulate insects including grasshoppers, locusts, cockroaches, etc. See Illust. under Insect.

To sow where something has already been sown. [R.] His enemy came and oversowed cockle among the wheat. Matt. x

The act of feeding, or providing food. [Obs.] Cockeram.

The chaparral cock.

A peacock. [Obs.] Shak.

eral species are found in China and the East Indies. -- Night partridge (Zoöl.), the woodcock. [Local, U.S.] -- Painted partridge (Zoöl.), a francolin of South Africa (Francolinus pictus). -- Partridge berry. (Bot.) (a) The scarlet berry of a trailing american plant (Mitchella repens) of the order Rubiaceæ, having ro…

te costume is worn; -- so called from the resemblance of its movements to those of the peacock. [Written also pavane, paven, pavian, and pavin.]

A genus of birds, including the peacocks.

A peacock. [Obs.] Spenser.

Of or pertaining to a peacock. [R.] Southey.

Characteristic of a peacock; resembling the tail of a peacock, as in colors; iridescent. P. Cleaveland.

The chicken of the peacock.

The peacock or peahen; any species of Pavo.

Smart; trim; spruce; jaunty; vain. "Perk as a peacock." Spenser.

as, a pet child; a pet lamb; a pet theory. Some young lady's pet curate. F. Harrison. Pet cock. Etym: [Perh. for petty cock.] (Mach.) A little faucet in a water pipe or pump, to let air out, or at the end of a steam cylinder, to drain it.

The woodcock. [Local, U.S.] Wood pewee (Zoöl.), a bird (Contopus virens) similar to the pewee (See Pewee, 1), but of smaller size.

Type confusedly mixed. See Pi. By cock and pie, an adjuration equivalent to "by God and the service book." Shak. -- Tree pie (Zoöl.), any Asiatic bird of the genus Dendrocitta, allied to the magpie. -- Wood pie. (Zoöl.) See French pie, under French.

A large haycock. [Prov. Eng.] Halliwell.

ecker (Ceophloeus pileatus). It is black, with a bright red pointed crest. Called also logcock, and woodcock.