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• cock|a|trice — «KOK uh trihs», noun. 1. a serpent in old stories whose look was supposed to cause death. The cockatrice was believed to be hatched by a serpent from a cock s egg. It was usually represented as part cock and part serpent. 2. a venomous serpent… …   Useful english dictionary

• tread —    to copulate    It is used of birds, from their foot movements:     The cock that treads them shall not know. (Shakespeare, Sonnets to Sundry Notes of Music) …   How not to say what you mean: A dictionary of euphemisms

• treddle — treadˈle or treddˈle noun 1. A foot lever for working a machine 2. A pedal 3. The chalaza of an egg (once thought to be derived from the cock) (dialect) intransitive verb To work a treadle • • • Main Entry: ↑tread …   Useful english dictionary

• Oxford Dictionary of Proverbs, Thematic Index — absence absence makes the heart grow fonder he who is absent is always in the wrong the best of friends must part blue are the hills that are far away distance lends enchantment to the view out of sight, out of mind …   Proverbs new dictionary

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• cockatrice — /kok euh tris/, n. 1. a legendary monster with a deadly glance, supposedly hatched by a serpent from the egg of a cock, and commonly represented with the head, legs, and wings of a cock and the body and tail of a serpent. Cf. basilisk (def. 1). 2 …   Universalium

• Nottingham and District Tramways Company Limited — was a tramway operator from 1875 to 1897 based in Nottingham in the United Kingdom. Contents 1 Nottingham Tramways Company 1872 1875 2 Nottingham and District Tramways Company Limited 1875 1897 2.1 …   Wikipedia

• cockatrice — [14] The name of the cockatrice, a mythical serpent whose glance could kill, has a bizarre history. It started life as medieval Latin calcātrix, which meant literally ‘tracker, hunter’ (it was formed from the verb calcāre ‘tread, track’, a… …   The Hutchinson dictionary of word origins

• cockatrice — [14] The name of the cockatrice, a mythical serpent whose glance could kill, has a bizarre history. It started life as medieval Latin calcātrix, which meant literally ‘tracker, hunter’ (it was formed from the verb calcāre ‘tread, track’, a… …   Word origins