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A cockleshell.

A coarse, composite weed, having a rough or prickly fruit; one of several species of the genus Xanthium; -- called also clotbur.

Inclosed in a shell. The tender horns of cockled snails. Shak.

One who takes and sells cockles.

One of the shells or valves of a cockle.

A disease in wheat, in which the blackened and contracted grain, or ear, is filled with minute worms.

A childish play, in which one covers his eyes, and guesses who strikes him or his hand placed behind him.

Same as Cocklebur.

Cocklebur.

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…

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

The corn cockle; also anciently applied to the Nigella, or fennel flower.

as wicks for lamps. The botanical name is in common use for the garden species. The corn cockle (Lychnis Githago) is a common weed in wheat fields.

A kiln to dry hops or malt; a cockle. Mortimer.

To sow where something has already been sown. [R.] His enemy came and oversowed cockle among the wheat. Matt. x

rs, longitudinally triple-winged and ciliated, the mouth covered with a lid shaped like a cockleshell. -- California pitcher plant, the Darlingtonia California. See Darlingtonia. -- Pitcher plant, any plant with the whole or a part of the leaves transformed into pitchers or cuplike organs, especially the species of N…

A disease of wheat. Same as Earcockle.

or of resistance to lawful authority. In soothing them, we nourish 'gainst our senate The cockle of rebellion, insolence, sedition. Shak. Noisy demagogues who had been accused of sedition. Macaulay.

To sprinkle; to scatter. [Obs.] He would sowen some difficulty, Or springen cockle in our cleane corn. Chaucer.

osite plants in which the scales of the involucre are united so as to form a kind of bur; cocklebur; clotbur.