n. The male of the domestic fowl; specifically, a male chicken one year old or older, one less than a year old being properly called a cockerel.n. The male of any other bird, particularly of the gallinaceous kind: in this use especially in composition, as in peacock, turkey-cock, cockrobin, cock-sparrow, etc.n. A bird, particularly a gallinaceous bird, without reference to sex: usually in composition or with a distinctive epithet or qualifying phrase, as in blackcock, logcock, woodcock, and the phrasal names below.n. Cock-crowing; the time when cocks crow in the morning.n. A leader; a chief person; a ruling spirit: as, cock of the school.n. A fellow; chap: a familiar term of address or appellation, usually preceded by old, and used much in the same way as fellow, chap, boy, etc.n. A vane in the shape of a cock; a weather-cock.n. A faucet or turn-valve, contrived for the purpose of permitting or arresting the flow of fluids or air through a pipe, usually taking its special name from its peculiar use or construction: as, air-cock, feed-cock, gage-cock, etc.n. The portion of the lock of a firearm which by its fall, when released through the action of the trigger, produces the discharge; in a flint-lock, the part that holds the flint; in a percussion-lock, the hammer.n. In a firearm, the position into which the hammer is brought by being pulled back to the first or second catch. See at full cock, at half cock, below.n. The style or gnomon of a dial.n. The needle of a balance.n. The piece which forms the bearing of the balance in a clock or watch.n. Same as cockee.n. A fictitious narrative, in verse or prose, sold in the streets as a true account; a cock-and-bull story; a canard.To raise or draw back the cock or hammer of (a gun or pistol), as a preliminary to firing: as, he cocked his rifle.To set cocks to fighting, or to train them for fighting.To turn up or to one side in a jaunty or significant way; give a pert, knowing, or inquiring turn to: as, to cock the head; to cock the eye at a person; to cock the brim of a hat; the horse cocked up his ears.To hold up the head; look big, pert, or domineering.The act of turning up or to one side in a jaunty or significant way, as the head or a hat; the position of anything thus placed.A particular shape given to a hat, especially by turning up and fastening the brim.One of the flaps or parts of a hat turned up. See flap.n. A small conical pile of hay, so shaped for shedding rain; a haycock.In hay-making, to put into cocks or piles.n. A small boat; a cockboat; a skiff.n. A nock or notch, especially that in the butt-end of an arrow, or on the stock of a crossbow, which receives or retains the string.To fight; contend.n. Fight.A variant of calk.n. A cockle.To pamper; cocker.n. Scarlet.n. A perversion of or substitution for the word God, occurring in oaths, such as “(By) cock's body” (bones, wounds, nouns, etc.), “by cock and pye,” etc. Compare gog in similar use.
