" "Come," and Lord Nick smiled genially, "you are a game little cock!"

Here's right the dunghill cock that finds a pearl.

Writing at that period, Pliny says, respecting the domestic cock, "The gait of the cock is proud and commanding; he walks with head erect and elevated crest; alone, of all birds, he habitually looks up to the sky, raising, at the same time, his curved and scythe-formed tail, and inspiring terror in the lion himself, that most intrepid of animals.

Q.How can you tell whether the feed pumps are operating properly? A.To ascertain whether the pumps are acting well, the pet cock must be turned, and if any of the valves stick they will sometimes be induced to act again by working with the pet cock open, or alternately open and shut.

And once, in provision for their noon lunch, a fat cock tumbled through the branches at Beatrice's pistol shot.

Methinks thou hast brought but a lean cock to the market.

These cocks are located so that the upper and lower cock is on or near the level with the lower and upper end of the glass gauge.

There are various corruptions of this name to be found in the West of England, such as lentils, lent-a-lily, lents, and lent-cocks; the last name doubtless referring to the custom of cock-throwing, which was allowed in Lent, boys, in the absence of live cocks, having thrown sticks at the flower.

Know, Angora, that there will be among those fancy cocks a genuine game-cock, lean, with tawny wing, the same who THE BLACKBIRD

At last, his mistress, by some invisible means, lost a favourite cock.

coward, poltroon, dastard, sneak, recreant; shy cock, dunghill cock; coistril^, milksop, white liver, lily liver, nidget^, one that cannot say 'boo' to a goose; slink; Bob Acres, Jerry Sneak. alarmist, terrorist^, pessimist; runagate &c (fugitive) 623.

Oh, my pretty cock, oh, my handsome cock Old Grimes is dead, that good old man Old King Cole Old Mother Goose, when Old Mother Hubbard Old Mother Twitchett had but one eye "Old woman, old woman, shall we go a-shearing?"

In the middle, on an iron ornament, stands the golden cock at which Goethe used to marvel when a boy.

This pump, by the aid of suitable cocks, will pump from the sea into the boiler; from the sea upon deck either to wash decks or to extinguish fire; and from the bilge overboard, through a suitable orifice in the side of the ship.

Oh, my pretty cock, oh, my handsome cock Old Grimes is dead, that good old man Old King Cole Old Mother Goose, when Old Mother Hubbard Old Mother Twitchett had but one eye "Old woman, old woman, shall we go a-shearing?"

[All the fancy COCKS draw aside, revealing the WHITE PILE GAME COCK, who appears, tall and lean and sinister at the further end of their double row.] CHANTECLER At last!

And partly because he liked the walk, and partly because he could no other, having neither horse nor gig, he went on foot; and whistled as he went like any throstle-cock, along the pleasant vale, by flowery banks and ferny walls, by oak and ash and thorn, while Alva flashed and swirled, between green boughs below, clear coffee-brown from last night's rain.

A featherweight bantam cock will stand up to an elephantine brahma and fight him according to the rules of the ring and next minute pay compliments to his lady in language which she will be at no loss to understand.

If the steam blows out at the forward cock we know that we have sufficient lead.

This gentle cock, for solace of his life, Six misses had, besides his lawful wife.

" ZIG, a giant cock in the Talmud (q. v.), which stands with its foot on the earth, touches heaven with its head, and when it spreads its wings causes a total eclipse of the sun.

"Darrow," said I, "there's one thing you've overlooked; you forgot to bring a cupola and a gilt weather-cock for this concern.

The millet seed may be intrinsically less valuable than a pearl; but the hungry cock wisely neglected the pearl, because pearls could not, and millet seeds could, appease his hunger.

They might be compared to a hay-field turned upside down, with innumerable hay-cocks hanging below it.

He bore himself, to-day, like a lazy cock of the walk.