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Cockatrice

noun
1.
Monster hatched by a reptile from a cock's egg; able to kill with a glance.





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"Cockatrice" Quotes from Famous Books



... in the first stye; then go back and fetch the fox from the other side of the river, returning with the remaining cockatrice. Then put yourself in the second stye, never come put ...
— Punch, Or The London Charivari, Vol. 101, July 25, 1891 • Various
... cockatrice," answered the pale person in a very faint voice, "and I shall die—oh, I know I shall! My fire's gone out! I can't think how it happened; I must have been asleep. I have to stir it seven times round with my tail once in a hundred years to keep ...
— The Book of Dragons • Edith Nesbit
... days of Ahaz, king of Judah, Isaiah the son of Amoz is reported to have seen in a vision a wolf which dwelt with a lamb, while a lion ate straw like an ox, and a weaned child put his hand in the cockatrice's den. Equally beautiful, as a dream, was the peace at Hidden Water, where sheepman and cattleman sat down together in amity; only, when it was all over, the wolf wiped his chops and turned away with a wise smile—the millennium not having come, ...
— Hidden Water • Dane Coolidge


Words linked to "Cockatrice" :   mythical creature, mythical monster


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