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An eyelike spot of color, as those on the tail of the peacock.

A peacock. [Obs.] Shak.

ate 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.

Peacock. [Obs.] Chaucer.

Of or pertaining to the Rasores, or gallinaceous birds, as the peacock, domestic fowl, patridge, and the like.

To enjoy. [Obs.] Bp. Peacock.

A relater of stories; an historian. [Obs.] Bp. Peacock.

is something distinct from, and superadded unto, its natural gravity. Bp. Wilkins. The peacock laid it extremely to heart that he had not the nightingale's voice superadded to the beauty of his plumes. L'Estrange.

swinging, or dragging motion; hence, to carry in a stately or proud fashion. And like a peacock sweep along his tail. Shak.

ut sight of the eye withoutforth upon images, what he before knew and thought upon. Bp. Peacock.

bs.] O, you are novices; 't is a world to see How tame, when men and women are alone, A meacock wretch can make the curstest shrew. Shak. -- For all the world. (a) Precisely; exactly. (b) For any consideration. -- Seven wonders of the world. See in the Dictionary of Noted Names in Fiction. -- To go to the world, to b…