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as, a blow-off cock or pipe.

s origin from the insistence of a Delaware Revolutionary captain, named Caldwell, that no cock could be truly game unless the mother was a blue hen, whence Blue Hen's Chickens came to be a nickname for the people of Delaware.

The American woodcock; -- so called from its feeding among the bogs.

The bells of Bow Church in London; cockneydom. People born within the sound of Bow-bells are usually called cockneys. Murray's Handbook of London.

One born within hearing distance of Bow-bells; a cockney. Halliwell.

ulting from a bump or blow; a protuberance. It had upon its brow A bump as big as a young cockerel's stone. Shak.

ts essentially of a graduated glass tube, usually furnished with a small aperture and stopcock.

e size and fine flavor, found in northern Europe and formerly in Scotland; -- called also cock of the woods. [Written also capercaillie, capercaili.]

A castrated cock, esp. when fattened; a male chicken gelded to improve his flesh for the table. Shak. The merry thought of a capon. W. Irving.

A kind of beetle; the cockchafer. The name is also applied to other species; as, the rose chafer.

A cock, so called from the clearness or loundness of his voice in crowing.

t impenetrable thicket or succession of thickets of thorny shrubs and brambles. Chaparral cock; fem. Chaparral hen (Zoöl.), a bird of the cuckoo family (Geococcyx Californianus), noted for running with great speed. It ranges from California to Mexico and eastward to Texas; -- called also road runner, ground cuckoo, chu…

A tuft of feathers on a peacock's head. Johnson.

nd disinfectant. -- Charcoal blacks, the black pigment, consisting of burnt ivory, bone, cock, peach stones, and other substances. -- Charcoal drawing (Fine Arts), a drawing made with charcoal. See Charcoal, 2. Until within a few years this material has been used almost exclusively for preliminary outline, etc., but…

To fondle; to cocker. [Obs.] Dryden.

A vibrant or whirring noise such as that made by some insects, as the cockchafer, or by some birds, as the nightjar, the partridge, etc.

A slight sharp noise, such as is made by the cocking of a pistol.

Same as Cocklebur.

Cocklebur.

The land of cockneys; cockneydom; -- a term applied to London and its suburbs. Smart.