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A coxcomb; a pert boy. [Obs.]

The male of the domestic fowl; a cock. [Prov. Eng.] Halliwell.

In a steamship, a cock or valve close to the vessel's side, for closing a pipe which communicates with the sea.

The bar-tailed godwit.

A shuttlecock. [Obs.]

To send or toss to and fro; to bandy; as, to shuttlecock words. Thackeray.

The missel thrush; -- so called from its harsh alarm note. [Prev. Eng.]

See Spitchcock.

To split (as an eel) lengthwise, and broil it, or fry it in hot fat.

Broiled or fried after being split lengthwise; -- said of eels.

Spitchcocked.

th a turning stopper or plug for permitting or restraining the flow of a liquid or gas; a cock or valve for checking or regulating the flow of water, gas, etc., through or from a pipe, etc.

The missel thrush.

The missel thrush. [Prov. Eng.]

The missel thrush. [Prov. Eng.]

A cock for withdrawing a small quantity of liquid, as for testing.

To let down the cock of, as a firearm.

A large gallinule (Gallicrex cristatus) native of Australia, India, and the East Indies. In the breeding season the male is black and has a fleshy red caruncle, or horn, on the top of its head. Called also kora.

A vane, or weather vane; -- so called because originally often in the figure of a cock, turning on the top of a spire with the wind, and showing its direction. "As a wedercok that turneth his face with every wind." Chaucer. Noisy weathercocks rattled and sang of mutation. Longfellow.

you not, I would laugh at you, and see you Run your neck into the noose, and cry, "A woodcock!" Beau. & Fl. Little woodcock. (a) The common American snipe. (b) The European snipe. -- Sea woodcock fish, the bellows fish. -- Woodcock owl, the short-eared owl (Asio brachyotus). -- Woodcock shell, the shell of certain…