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.

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