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Definition of Cockatrices
1. cockatrice [n] - See also: cockatrice
Lexicographical Neighbors of Cockatrices
Literary usage of Cockatrices
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Narrative of an Explorer in Tropical South Africa: Being an Account of a by Francis Galton (1889)
"... Finale—Spring Hares —Remarks on my Route—Unicorns and cockatrices—Bushmen
Springes—Setting Guns at Night—Description of Plate—Poisoned Arrows. ..."
2. The Penny Cyclopædia of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge by Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge (Great Britain), George Long (1837)
"Of basilisks, or cockatrices, there were «aid te be three, if not four kinds.
One species burned up whatever thi"i ¡ri- proached,—a sort of breathing ..."
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