Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Cockstone; a peculiar stone, erroneously supposed to be sometimes found in the stomach or liver of an aged cock or capon. Many imaginary virtues were attributed to it.
- noun A genus of lichens.
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- noun a precious stone said to be found in the gizzard of cocks
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- noun lichens having dark brown erect or pendulous much-branched cylindrical thallus
Etymologies
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Latin alectoria, formed from Greek αλεκτρυων ‘cock’.
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