Part 174 (2/2)

c.o.c.k, _s._ The mark for which _curlers_ play, S.

_Burns._

c.o.c.k, _s._ A cap, a head-dress, S. B.

_Ross._

c.o.c.k AND PAIL, A spigot and faucet, S.

c.o.c.kALAN, _s._ A comic or ludicrous representation.

_Acts Ja. VI._

Fr. _coq a l'ane_, a libel, a pasquin, a satire.

c.o.c.kANDY, _s._ The Puffin, Alca arctica, Linn. S. _Tommy-noddy_, Orkn.

_Sibbald._

c.o.c.kERDEHOY. _To ride c.o.c.kerdehoy_, to sit on the shoulders of another, in imitation of riding on horseback, S. B.

Fr. _coquardeau_, a proud fool.

c.o.c.kERNONNY, _s._ The gathering of a young woman's hair, when it is wrapt up in a band or fillet, commonly called a _snood_, S.

_Ramsay._

Teut. _koker_, a case, and _nonne_, a nun, q. such a sheath for fixing the hair as the nuns were wont to use.

c.o.c.kERSUM, _adj._ Unsteady in position, threatening to fall or tumble over, S.

Fr. _coquarde_, a cap, worn proudly on the one side.

c.o.c.kY, _adj._ Vain, affecting airs of importance, S. B. from the E. v.

_to c.o.c.k_.

_Ross._

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