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Bird meeting a second legendary monster
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cockatrice
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Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 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. 2 (cx obsolete English) Mistress, harlot
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
A cockatrice is a mythical beast , essentially a two-legged dragon or serpent -like creature with a cock 's head. Described by Laurence Breiner as "an ornament in the drama and poetry of the Elizabethans ", it was featured prominently in English thought ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Cockatrice \Cock"a*trice\ (-tr[imac]s; 277), n. [OF. cocatrice crocodile, F. cocatrix, 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 ...
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. monster hatched by a reptile from a cock's egg; able to kill with a glance
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
late 14c., from Old French cocatriz , altered (by influence of coq ) from Late Latin *calcatrix , from Latin calcare "to tread" (from calx (1) "heel"), as translation of Greek ikhneumon , literally "tracker, tracer."\n \nIn classical writings, an Egyptian ...
Usage examples of cockatrice.
Of these, Ravenna had been the last to withdraw, lingering while she fashioned the Ions, one great beast for every land: the starhorse Avarclon for the white plain of Avaric, the cockatrice of Elver, the gryphon of Terrain.
Stout of heart are they, and instructed in all lore, and Juss a sorcerer of ancient power, who hath charms to blunt the glance of basilisk or cockatrice.
One other genuine quality he has which crowns all these, and that is this: to a friend in want, he will not depart with the weight of a soldered groat, lest the world might censure him prodigal, or report him a gull: marry, to his cockatrice or punquetto, half a dozen taffata gowns or satin kirtles in a pair or two of months, why, they are nothing.
Oft has your prophet, for reward of toil, Seen nests of seeming cockatrices coil: Disowned them as the unholiest of Time, Which were his offspring, born of flame on slime.
Tears, of cockatrices shed: When the heart is vowed for freedom, Captaincy it yields to head.
The female riddle is hard to read, because it is compounded of sensations, and they rouse and appeal to the similar cockatrices in us, which either hiss back or coil upon themselves.
What iguanas and anacondas, what snoozing geckos languished there, presided over, perhaps, by a heraldic basilisk, a rampant cockatrice!
Oft has your prophet, for reward of toil,Seen nests of seeming cockatrices coil:Disowned them as the unholiest of Time,Which were his offspring, born of flame on slime.
XX Read that riddle, scorning pity's Tears, of cockatrices shed: When the heart is vowed for freedom, Captaincy it yields to head.
Carelessly scrawled runes on the flask spelled out essence of cockatrice, or so Sandy's gift of tongues interpreted it.
If Essence Extractions had found a way to produce lots of cockatrices, they were sitting on the goose that laid the golden egg.
If Essence Extractions had found a way to pro duce lots of cockatrices, they were sitting on the goose that laid the golden egg.
Like all her signets, this was a simple seal carved of sardonyx, her Clan crest, a rampant cockatrice.