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Definition of Cockatrice
1. Noun. Monster hatched by a reptile from a cock's egg; able to kill with a glance.
Definition of Cockatrice
1. n. A fabulous serpent whose breath and look were said to be fatal. See Basilisk.
Definition of Cockatrice
1. Noun. A legendary creature about the size and shape of a dragon or wyvern, but in appearance resembling a giant rooster, with some lizard-like characteristics. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Cockatrice
1. [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Cockatrice
Literary usage of Cockatrice
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Glossary; Or, Collection of Words, Phrases, Names, and Allusions to by Robert Nares, James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps, Thomas Wright (1867)
"See Strutt's Pastimes and Brand's Popular Antiquities. they will not part with
a crack'd groat to a poor body, but on their cockatrice or ..."
2. Science from an Easy Chair by Edwin Ray Lankester (1911)
"The wyvern and the cockatrice and the basilisk (Fig. 20) (which, like the Gorgon
Medusa, can strike a man dead by the mere glance of the eye) are remarkable ..."
3. Natural History in Shakespeare's Time: Being Extracts Illustrative of the by Herbert West Seager (1896)
"And so the cockatrice fleeth when he seeth the weasel, and the weasel pursueth
and slayeth ... For the biting of fhe weasel is death to the cockatrice ; and ..."
4. English Heraldry by Charles Boutell (1867)
"cockatrice. A fabulous creature, represented in No. 229. Collar. ... In addition
to their badges of cockatrice. the Red and White Rose, the adherents of the ..."
5. Fictitious & Symbolic Creatures in Art with Special Reference to Their Use by John Vinycomb (1906)
"Sable, a cockatrice, displayed argent, crested, ... cockatrice or basilisk in
heraldry exactly resembles the cockatrice, but having an additional head (like ..."
6. Observations on the Popular Antiquities of Great Britain: Chiefly by John Brand, Henry Ellis (1893)
"... BASILISK, OR cockatrice. SIR THOMAS BROWNE informs that the generation of •
basilisk is supposed to proceed from a cock's egg hatched under a toad or ..."
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