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A cock or faucet having a bent down nozzle. Knight.

The European water rail.

A round, low-crowned felt hat; a wideawake. "The undignified billycocks and pantaloons of the West." B. H. Chamberlain.

The male of the European black grouse (Tetrao tetrix, Linn.); - - so called by sportsmen. The female is called gray hen. See Heath grouse.

A bantam fowl.

A disease in wheat, in which the blackened and contracted grain, or ear, is filled with minute worms.

The male game fowl.

The moor cock, or red grouse. See Grouse. [Prov. Eng.]

A cock or cup containing grease, to serve as a lubricator.

To set the cock of (a firearm) at the first notch. To go off halfcocked. (a) To be discharged prematurely, or with the trigger at half cock; -- said of a firearm. (b) To do or say something without due thought or care. [Colloq. or Low]

A conical pile or hear of hay in the field. The tanned haycock in the mead. Milton.

A childish play, in which one covers his eyes, and guesses who strikes him or his hand placed behind him.

A dull, sluggish person; a lubber; a lob. [Low]

The pileated woodpecker.

An uxorious, effeminate, or spiritless man. [Obs.] Johnson.

The lumpfish. [Prov. Eng.]

In common usage, the species in general or collectively; a peafowl. Peacock butterfly (Zoöl.), a handsome European butterfly (Hamadryas Io) having ocelli like those of peacock. -- Peacock fish (Zoöl.), the European blue-striped wrasse (Labrus variegatus); -- so called on account of its brilliant colors. Called also co…

ld by the shahs of Persia (later Iran); -- so called from its bearing a fully expanded peacock's tail done in gems.

A clamp on a flexible pipe to regulate the flow of a fluid through the pipe.

Peacock. [Obs.] Chaucer.