Abricock :: Abricock (n.) See Apricot.

Acock :: Acock (adv.) In a cocked or turned up fashion.

Acockbill :: Acockbill (adv.) Hanging at the cathead, ready to let go, as an anchor..

Acockbill :: Acockbill (adv.) Topped up; having one yardarm higher than the other.

Air Cock :: Air cock () A faucet to allow escape of air.

Ascococci :: Ascococci (pl. ) of Ascococcu.

Ascococcus :: Ascococcus (n.) A form of micrococcus, found in putrid meat infusions, occurring in peculiar masses, each of which is inclosed in a hyaline capsule and contains a large number of spherical micrococci..

Bawcock :: Bawcock (n.) A fine fellow; -- a term of endearment.

Bibcock :: Bibcock (n.) A cock or faucet having a bent down nozzle.

Bilcock :: Bilcock (n.) The European water rail.

Blackcock :: Blackcock (n.) The male of the European black grouse (Tetrao tetrix, Linn.); -- so called by sportsmen. The female is called gray hen. See Heath grouse..

Cacochymia :: Cacochymia (n.) Alt. of Cacochym.

Cacochymic :: Cacochymic (a.) Alt. of Cacochymica.

Cacochymical :: Cacochymical (a.) Having the fluids of the body vitiated, especially the blood..

Cacochymy :: Cacochymy (n.) A vitiated state of the humors, or fluids, of the body, especially of the blood..

Chalcocite :: Chalcocite (n.) Native copper sulphide, called also copper glance, and vitreous copper; a mineral of a black color and metallic luster..

Circocele :: Circocele (n.) See Cirsocele.

Coca :: Coca (n.) The dried leaf of a South American shrub (Erythroxylon Coca). In med., called Erythroxylon..

Cocagne :: Cocagne (n.) An imaginary country of idleness and luxury.

Cocagne :: Cocagne (n.) The land of cockneys; cockneydom; -- a term applied to London and its suburbs.

Cocaine :: Cocaine (n.) A powerful alkaloid, C17H21NO4, obtained from the leaves of coca. It is a bitter, white, crystalline substance, and is remarkable for producing local insensibility to pain..

Cocci :: Cocci (pl. ) of Coccu.

Cocciferous :: Cocciferous (a.) Bearing or producing berries; bacciferous; as, cocciferous trees or plants..

Coccinella :: Coccinella (n.) A genus of small beetles of many species. They and their larvae feed on aphids or plant lice, and hence are of great benefit to man. Also called ladybirds and ladybugs..

Coccobacteria :: Coccobacteria (pl. ) of Coccobacteriu.

Coccobacterium :: Coccobacterium (n.) One of the round variety of bacteria, a vegetable organism, generally less than a thousandth of a millimeter in diameter..

Coccolite :: Coccolite (n.) A granular variety of pyroxene, green or white in color..

Coccolith :: Coccolith (n.) One of a kind of minute, calcareous bodies, probably vegetable, often abundant in deep-sea mud..

Coccosphere :: Coccosphere (n.) A small, rounded, marine organism, capable of braking up into coccoliths..

Coccosteus :: Coccosteus (n.) An extinct genus of Devonian ganoid fishes, having the broad plates about the head studded with berrylike tubercles..

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