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. [ 1913 Webster ]
2. An object at which stones are flung. [ 1913 Webster ]
“Making a cockshy of him, ” replied the hideous small boy. Dickens. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. [ 1st cock, n. + comb crest. ] 1. See Coxcomb. [ 1913 Webster ]
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. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. A kind of net to catch woodcock. [ Obs. ] Nares. [ 1913 Webster ]
Cockshut timeor Cockshut light, evening twilight; nightfall; -- so called in allusion to the tome at which the cockshut used to be spread. [ Obs. ] Shak. B. Jonson. [ 1913 Webster ]
We steal as in a castle, cocksure: . . . we walk invisible. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]
2. Quite certain. [ Colloq. ] [ 1913 Webster ]
I thought myself cocksure of the horse which he readily promised me. Pope. [ 1913 Webster ]
3. overconfident; -- of people; as, the team was so cocksure of winning that they didn't practice in the week before the big game.. [ Colloq. ] [ 1913 Webster ]
n. [ Cock a boat + swain; hence, the master of a boat. ] The steersman of a boat; a petty officer who has charge of a boat and its crew. [ 1913 Webster ]
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(adj) marked by excessive confidence, Syn.positive, overconfident, Example: an arrogant and cocksure materialist; so overconfident and impudent as to speak to the queen; the less he knows the more positive he gets
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