Definition of Cockatrices

1. Noun. (plural of cockatrice) ¹

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Definition of Cockatrices

1. cockatrice [n] - See also: cockatrice

Lexicographical Neighbors of Cockatrices

cockamamie
cockamamy
cockamaroo
cockapoo
cockapoos
cockateel
cockateels
cockatiel
cockatiels
cockatoo
cockatoo farmer
cockatoo farmers
cockatoo parrot
cockatoos
cockatrice
cockatrices (current term)
cockayne syndrome
cockbill
cockbilled
cockbilling
cockbills
cockbird
cockbirds
cockblocked
cockblocker
cockblockers
cockblocking
cockblocks
cockboat

Literary usage of Cockatrices

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Narrative of an Explorer in Tropical South Africa: Being an Account of a by Francis Galton (1889)
"... Finale—Spring Hares —Remarks on my Route—Unicorns and cockatrices—Bushmen Springes—Setting Guns at Night—Description of Plate—Poisoned Arrows. ..."

2. The Penny Cyclopædia of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge by Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge (Great Britain), George Long (1837)
"Of basilisks, or cockatrices, there were «aid te be three, if not four kinds. One species burned up whatever thi"i ¡ri- proached,—a sort of breathing ..."

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