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A cockney. [Obs.] Chaucer.

The naked fleshy crest or caruncle on the upper part of the bill or hood of a cock or other bird. It is usually red.

To pollute; to defile. [Obs.] Cockeram.

To choose; to elect; to coöpt. [Obs.] Cockeram.

made of Indian meal. -- Corn cake, a kind of corn bread; johnny cake; hoecake. -- Corn cockle (Bot.), a weed (Agrostemma or Lychnis Githago), having bright flowers, common in grain fields. -- Corn flag (Bot.), a plant of the genus Gladiolus; -- called also sword lily. -- Corn fly. (Zoöl.) (a) A small fly which, in…

Having the same signification. Cockerham.

A strip of red cloth notched like the comb of a cock, which licensed jesters formerly wore in their caps.

See Cockswain.

A tuft, or other excrescence or natural ornament, growing on animal's head; the comb of a cock; the swelling on the head of a serpent; the lengthened feathers of the crown or nape of bird, etc. Darwin. [Attack] his rising crest, and drive the serpent back. C. Pitt.

A small, active, winged species of cockroach (Ectobia Germanica), the water bug. It is common aboard ships, and in houses in cities, esp. in those with hot-water pipes.

To make the shrill sound characteristic of a cock, either in joy, gayety, or defiance. "The cock had crown." Bayron. The morning cock crew loud. Shak.

lliam the Conqueror; also, the bell itself. He begins at curfew, and walks till the first cock. Shak. The village curfew, as it tolled profound. Campbell.

To whiten. [Obs.] Cockeram.

To walk abroad. [Obs.] Cockeram.

To rave as a bacchanal. [R.] Cockeram.

The thing degenerated. [R.] Cockle, aracus, . . . and other degenerations. Sir T. Browne. Amyloid degeneration, Caseous degeneration, etc. See under Amyloid, Caseous, etc.

To taste. [Obs.] Cockeram.

To swear solemnly; to take an oath. [Obs.] Cockeram.

To emigrate. [Obs.] Cockeram.

To let fall; to depress. [R.] They [peacocks] demit and let fall the same [i. e., their train]. Sir T. Browne.