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In a cocked or turned up fashion.

Hanging at the cathead, ready to let go, as an anchor.

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

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…

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

(Angling) An artificial fly with brown mottled wings, body of peacock harl, and black legs.

er anchor, or with a cable or wreck, or when the slack cable entangled. -- The anchor is acockbill, when it is suspended perpendicularly from the cathead, ready to be let go. -- The anchor is apeak, when the cable is drawn in do tight as to bring to ship directly over it. -- The anchor is atrip, or aweigh, when it i…

d a hundred eyes, who has placed by Juno to guard Io. His eyes were transplanted to the peacock's tail.

pecies of shell (Cypræa argus), beautifully variegated with spots resembling those in a peacock's tail.

Campbell. Arabian bird, the phenix. -- Bird of Jove, the eagle. -- Bird of Juno, the peacock. -- Bird louse (Zoöl.), a wingless insect of the group Mallophaga, of which the genera and species are very numerous and mostly parasitic upon birds. -- Bird mite (Zoöl.), a small mite (genera Dermanyssus, Dermaleichus and…

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

To cockbill the anchor, to suspend it from the cathead preparatory to letting it go. See Acockbill.

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

Something in the form of a fan when spread, as a peacock's tail, a window, etc.

an; especially, the fan carried before the pope on state occasions, made in ostrich and peacock feathers. Shipley.

A barb, or barbs, of a fine large feather, as of a peacock or ostrich, -- used in dressing artificial flies. [Written also herl.]

g a large, bright-colored spot on each hind wing, resembling the spots on the tail of a peacock. The larva is covered with prickly hairs, which sting like nettles.

One of the early discovered asteroids. Bird of June, the peacock.

] lights on that, and this, and tasteth all. Sir. J. Davies. On the tree tops a crested peacock lit. Tennyson.

ne of a subfamily (Najades) of butterflies including the purples, the fritillaries, the peacock butterfly, etc.; -- called also naiad.