A little transverse bone
Which boys and bruckeled children call
(Playing for points and pins) cockal.
Herrick.
Cock`a*leek"ie (k&obreve;k`&adot;*lē"k&ibreve;), n. [From cock + leek.] A favorite soup in Scotland, made from a capon highly seasoned, and boiled with leeks and prunes.
Cock`a*ma*roo" (?), n. The Russian variety of bagatelle.
Cock"a*teel (k&obreve;k`&adot;*tēl"), n. (Zo÷l.) An Australian parrot (Calopsitta NovŠ-HollandiŠ); -- so called from its note.
Cock`a*too" (k&obreve;k`&adot;*t&oomac;"), n. [Malayan kakatūa.] (Zo÷l.) A bird of the Parrot family, of the subfamily CacatuinŠ, having a short, strong, and much curved beak, and the head ornamented with a crest, which can be raised or depressed at will. There are several genera and many species; as the broad-crested (Plictolophus, or Cacatua, cristatus), the sulphur-crested (P. galeritus), etc. The palm or great black cockatoo of Australia is Microglossus aterrimus.
Cock"a*trice (-trīs; 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 from a cock's egg. See Crocodile.]