cockatrice
/ˈkɒkətrʌɪs
/ /ˈkɒkətrɪs/noun
1 another term for basilisk (sense 1).Should you ever even think you see a basilisk or cockatrice, shut your eyes immediately and change the view to something else.
1.1 Heraldry A mythical animal depicted as a two-legged dragon (or wyvern) with a cock’s head.The unicorn bounced back to her as the cockatrices caught up and continued to flock overhead....
- The fireballs simply swirled into a funnel when they neared the foes chest, and the entire cockatrice glowed a bright blue as the magic was absorbed into its body.
- A family of pegasi stood tethered, eyeing a nearby slumbering cockatrice with understandable uneasiness.
Origin
Late Middle English: from Old French cocatris, from Latin calcatrix 'tracker' (from calcare 'to tread or track'), translating Greek ikhneumōn (see ichneumon).
- aguishly
- aguishness
- Agulhas, Cape
- Agulhas Current
- Agung
- agush
- AGW
- agy
- ah
- aha
- aha experience
- Ahaggar Mountains
- a hair's breadth
- Ahal-Teke
- Ahal-Tekke
- aha moment
- (a) hang of (a)
- a hard nut to crack
- a hard (or tough) act to follow
- a hard (or tough) row to hoe
- Aharonov–Bohm
- ahchoo
- ahead
- ahead of
- ahead of one's (or its) time