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enomination or designation; denominable. The least denominative part of time is a minute. Cocker.

To unload; to disburden. [Obs.] Cockeram.

To drive away. [Obs.] Cockeram.

The act of dijudicating; judgment. [R.] Cockeram.

To divide into two equal parts. [Obs.] Cockeram.

To pull off shoes or sandals from. [Obs.] Cockeram.

Removed from paradise. [R.] Cockeram.

A large West Indian cockroach (Blatta gigantea) which drums on woodwork, as a sexual call.

To prepare for fighting, as a gamecock, by trimming the hackles and cutting off the comb and wattles. To dub a fly, to dress a fishing fly. [Prov. Eng.] Halliwell. -- To dub out (Plastering), to fill out, as an uneven surface, to a plane, or to carry out a series of small projections.

Sweetness. [R.] Cockeram.

A bumblebee; also, a cockchafer. [Prov. Eng.]

Harshness; cruelty. Cockeram.

Bad legislation; the enactment of bad laws. Cockeram.

A depriving of teeth. [R.] Cockeram.

To ask urgently. [Obs.] Cockeram.

Unbridled license; unruliness. [Obs.] Cockeram.

To boil; to seethe; hence, to extract by boiling or seething. [Obs.] Cockeram.

To beg. [Obs.] Cockeram.

To sail away or over. [Obs.] Cockeram.

To clear of knots; to make clear. [Obs.] Cockeram.