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cock•a•trice



Pronunciation: (kok'u-tris), [key]
—n.
1. a legendary monster with a deadly glance, supposedly hatched by a serpent from the egg of a cock, and commonly represented with the head, legs, and wings of a cock and the body and tail of a serpent. Cf. basilisk (def. 1).
2. a venomous serpent. Isa. 11:8.

Random House Unabridged Dictionary, Copyright © 1997, by Random House, Inc., on Infoplease.

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