Cock"pit` (k&obreve;k"p&ibreve;t), n. 1. A pit, or inclosed area, for cockfights.
Henry the Eighth had built . . . a cockpit.
Macaulay.
2. The Privy Council room at Westminster; -- so called because built on the site of the cockpit of Whitehall palace. Brande & C.
3. (Naut.) (a) That part of a war vessel appropriated to the wounded during an engagement. (b) In yachts and other small vessels, a space lower than the rest of the deck, which affords easy access to the cabin.
Cock"roach (?), n. [Sp. cucaracha.] (Zo÷l.) An orthopterous insect of the genus Blatta, and allied genera.
&fist; The species are numerous, especially in hot countries. Those most commonly infesting houses in Europe and North America are Blatta orientalis, a large species often called black beetle, and the Croton bug (Ectobia Germanica).
Cocks"comb` (k&obreve;ks"kōm`), n. [1st cock, n. + comb crest.] 1. See Coxcomb.
2. (Bot.) A plant (Celosia cristata), of many varieties, cultivated for its broad, fantastic spikes of brilliant flowers; -- sometimes called garden cockscomb. Also the Pedicularis, or lousewort, the Rhinanthus Crista-galli, and the Onobrychis Crista-galli.
Cocks"head` (?), n. (Bot.) A leguminous herb (Onobrychis Caput-galli), having small spiny-crested pods.
Cock"shut` (?), n. A kind of net to catch woodcock. [Obs.] Nares.
Cockshut time or light, evening twilight; nightfall; -- so called in allusion to the tome at which the cockshut used to be spread. [Obs.] Shak. B. Jonson.
Cock"shy` (?), n. 1. A game in which trinkets are set upon sticks, to be thrown at by the players; -- so called from an ancient popular sport which consisted in "shying" or throwing cudgels at live cocks.