Word Meanings - COCKATRICE - Book Publishers vocabulary database
cocatrice. The word is a corruption from the same source as E. crocodile, but was confused with cock the bird, F. coq, whence arose the fable that the animal was produced from a cock's egg. See 1. A fabulous serpent whose breath and look were said
Additional info about word: COCKATRICE
cocatrice. The word is a corruption from the same source as E. crocodile, but was confused with cock the bird, F. coq, whence arose the fable that the animal was produced from a cock's egg. See 1. A fabulous serpent whose breath and look were said to be fatal. See Basilisk. That bare vowel, I, shall poison more Than the death-darting eye of cockatrice. Shak. 2. A representation of this serpent. It has the head, wings, and legs of a bird, and tail of a serpent. 3. A venomous serpent which which cannot now be identified. Is. xi. 8. 4. Any venomous or deadly thing. This little cockatrice of a king. Bacon.
Related words: (words related to COCKATRICE)
- WHOSESOEVER
The possessive of whosoever. See Whosoever. - SERPENT-TONGUED
Having a forked tongue, like a serpent. - SERPENTARIUS
A constellation on the equator, lying between Scorpio and Hercules; -- called also Ophiuchus. - SERPENTRY
1. A winding like a serpent's. 2. A place inhabited or infested by serpents. - PRODUCIBILITY
The quality or state of being producible. Barrow. - ANIMALIZATION
1. The act of animalizing; the giving of animal life, or endowing with animal properties. 2. Conversion into animal matter by the process of assimilation. Owen. - SERPENTINOUS
Relating to, or like, serpentine; as, a rock serpentinous in character. - ANIMALCULISM
The theory which seeks to explain certain physiological and pathological by means of animalcules. - CORRUPTIONIST
One who corrupts, or who upholds corruption. Sydney Smith. - WHENCEFORTH
From, or forth from, what or which place; whence. Spenser. - ANIMALITY
Animal existence or nature. Locke. - CONFUSIVE
Confusing; having a tendency to confusion. Bp. Hall. - SERPENTINELY
In a serpentine manner. - ANIMALLY
Physically. G. Eliot. - ANIMALNESS
Animality. - CONFUS
Confused, disturbed. Chaucer. - PRODUCEMENT
Production. - SERPENTARIA
The fibrous aromatic root of the Virginia snakeroot - ANIMALCULIST
1. One versed in the knowledge of animalcules. Keith. 2. A believer in the theory of animalculism. - BREATHLESS
1. Spent with labor or violent action; out of breath. 2. Not breathing; holding the breath, on account of fear, expectation, or intense interest; attended with a holding of the breath; as, breathless attention. But breathless, as we grow - BREATHE
Etym: 1. To respire; to inhale and exhale air; hence;, to live. "I am in health, I breathe." Shak. Breathes there a man with soul so dead Sir W. Scott. 2. To take breath; to rest from action. Well! breathe awhile, and then to it again! Shak. 3. - INEFFABLENESS
The quality or state of being ineffable or unutterable; unspeakableness. - OVERPRODUCTION
Excessive production; supply beyond the demand. J. S. Mill.