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The charasteristics, manners, or dialect, of a cockney.

A pit, or inclosed area, for cockfights. Henry the Eight had built . . . a cockpit. Macaulay.

An orthopterus insect of the genus Blatta, and allied genera.

ltivated for its broad, fantastic spikes of brilliant flowers; -- sometimes called garden cockscomb. Also the Pedicularis, or lousewort, the Rhinanthus Crista-galli, and the Onobrychis Crista-galli.

(Bot.) A leguminous herb (Onobrychis Caput-galli), having small spiny-crested pods.

A kind of net to catch woodcock. [Obs.] Nares. Cockshut time or light, evening twilight; nightfall; -- so called in allusion to the tome at which the cockshut used to be spread. [Obs.] Shak. B. Jonson.

led from an ancient popular sport which consisted in "shying" or throwing cudgels at live cocks.

ty of Cratægus, or hawthorn (C. Crus-galli), having long, straight thorns; -- called also Cockspur thorn.

Perfectly safe. [Obs.] We steal as in a castle, cocksure: . . . we walk invisible. Shak.

The steersman of a boat; a petty officer who has charge of a boat and its crew.

coward. [Slang, Eng.] It was in the second affair that poor little Barney showed he was a cocktail. Thackeray.

A large, highly esteemed, edible fish of India (Lates calcarifer); -- also called begti.

Peppergrass. Johnson.

Pert. [Slang]

A pet name for any small bird.

See Apricot. [Obs.]

In a cocked or turned up fashion.

Hanging at the cathead, ready to let go, as an anchor.

A faucet to allow escape of air.

A fine fellow; -- a term of endearment. [Obs.] "How now, my bawcock " Shak.