English-Thai Dictionary
cockatrice
N สัตว์ ใน นิยาย ที่ มีหัว และ หาง เป็น งู มี ปีก คล้าย ไก่ เมื่อ มอง ใคร จะ ถึง แก่ ความตาย
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
COCKATRICE
n.A serpent imagined to proceed from a cocks egg.
Webster's 1913 Dictionary
COCKATRICE
COCKATRICE Cock "a *trice (-tris; 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. ]
1. A fabulous serpent whose breath and look were said to be fatal. See Basilisk.
That bare vowel, I, shall poison more Than the death-darting eye of cockatrice. Shak.
2. (Her. ) A representation of this serpent. It has the head, wings, and legs of a bird, and tail of a serpent.
3. (Script. ) A venomous serpent which which cannot now be identified.
The weaned child shall put his hand on the cockatrice's [Rev. Ver. basilisk's ] den. Is. xi. 8.
4. Any venomous or deadly thing.
This little cockatrice of a king. Bacon.
New American Oxford Dictionary
cockatrice
cock a trice |ˈkäkətris, -ˌtrīs ˈkɑkətrəs | ▶noun another term for basilisk ( sense 1 ). • Heraldry a mythical animal depicted as a two-legged dragon (or wyvern ) with a cock's head. ORIGIN late Middle English: from Old French cocatris, from Latin calcatrix ‘tracker ’ (from calcare ‘to tread or track ’), translating Greek ikhneueinōn (see ichneumon ).
Oxford Dictionary
cockatrice
cockatrice |ˈkɒkətrʌɪs, -trɪs | ▶noun another term for basilisk ( sense 1 ). • Heraldry a mythical animal depicted as a two-legged dragon (or wyvern ) with a cock's head. ORIGIN late Middle English: from Old French cocatris, from Latin calcatrix ‘tracker ’ (from calcare ‘to tread or track ’), translating Greek ikhneumōn (see ichneumon ).
Sanseido Wisdom Dictionary
cockatrice
cock a trice /kɑ́kətràɪs |kɔ́k -/名詞 C コカトリス (→basilisk ).
The Wordsmith Dictionary