Word Meanings - SCUTTER - Book Publishers vocabulary database

To run quickly; to scurry; to scuttle. A mangy little jackal . . . cocked up his ears and tail, and scuttered across the shallows. Kipling.

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• COCKALEEKIE
  A favorite soup in Scotland, made from a capon highly seasoned, and boiled with leeks and prunes.
• COCKNEY
  child, effeminate person, an egg; prob. orig. a cock's egg, a small imperfect egg; OE. cok cock + nay, neye, for ey egg , AS. 1. An effeminate person; a spoilt child. "A young heir or cockney, that is his mother's darling." Nash . This great
• COCKCHAFER
  A beetle of the genus Melolontha and allied genera; -- called also May bug, chafer, or dorbeetle.
• COCKBILL
  To tilt up one end of so as to make almost vertical; as, to cockbill the yards as a sign of mourning. To cockbill the anchor, to suspend it from the cathead preparatory to letting it go. See Acockbill.
• COCKER
  A rustic high shoe or half-boots. Drayton. (more info) G. köcher quiver, and perh. originally meaning receptacle, holder.
• COCKLED
  Inclosed in a shell. The tender horns of cockled snails. Shak.
• LITTLENESS
  The state or quality of being little; as, littleness of size, thought, duration, power, etc. Syn. -- Smallness; slightness; inconsiderableness; narrowness; insignificance; meanness; penuriousness.
• ACROSS
  1. From side to side; crosswise; as, with arms folded across. Shak. 2. Obliquely; athwart; amiss; awry. The squint-eyed Pharisees look across at all the actions of Christ. Bp. Hall.
• COCKLE
  A bivalve mollusk, with radiating ribs, of the genus Cardium, especially C. edule, used in Europe for food; -- sometimes applied to similar shells of other genera. 2. A cockleshell. 3. The mineral black tourmaline or schorl; -- so called by the
• COCKSPUR
  A variety of Cratægus, or hawthorn , having long, straight thorns; -- called also Cockspur thorn.
• COCKROACH
  An orthopterus insect of the genus Blatta, and allied genera. Note: The species are numerous, especially in hot countries. Those most commonly infesting houses in Europe and North America are Blatta orientalis, a large species often called black
• COCK-PADDLE
  See LUMPFISH
• COCKAMAROO
  The Russian variety of bagatelle.
• COCKLESHELL
  1. One of the shells or valves of a cockle. 2. A light boat. To board the cockleshell in those plunding waters. W. Black.
• SCUTTLE
  both fr. L. scutella, dim. of scutra, scuta, a dish or platter; cf. 1. A broad, shallow basket. 2. A wide-mouthed vessel for holding coal: a coal hod.
• LITTLE
  1. That which is little; a small quantity, amount, space, or the like. Much was in little writ. Dryden. There are many expressions, which carrying with them no clear ideas, are like to remove but little of my ignorance. Locke. 2. A small degree
• COCKEREL
  A young cock.
• COCK-A-HOOP
  Boastful; defiant; exulting. Also used adverbially.
• COCKNEYFY
  To form with the manners or character of a cockney.
• 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
• LACROSSE
  A game of ball, originating among the North American Indians, now the popular field sport of Canada, and played also in England and the United States. Each player carries a long-handled racket, called a "crosse". The ball is not handled but caught
• HAYCOCK
  A conical pile or hear of hay in the field. The tanned haycock in the mead. Milton.
• WOODCOCK
  Any one of several species of long-billed limicoline birds belonging to the genera Scolopax and Philohela. They are mostly nocturnal in their habits, and are highly esteemed as game birds. Note: The most important species are the European (Scolopax
• PRINCOCK; PRINCOX
  A coxcomb; a pert boy.
• LOGCOCK
  The pileated woodpecker.
• DO-LITTLE
  One who performs little though professing much. Great talkers are commonly dolittles. Bp. Richardson.
• WATER COCK
  A large gallinule native of Australia, India, and the East Indies. In the breeding season the male is black and has a fleshy red caruncle, or horn, on the top of its head. Called also kora.
• BILCOCK
  The European water rail.