cock

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

1. n. An adult male chicken; a rooster.
2. n. An adult male of various other birds.
3. n. A weathervane shaped like a rooster; a weathercock.
4. n. A leader or chief.
5. n. A faucet or valve by which the flow of a liquid or gas can be regulated.
6. n. The hammer of a firearm.
7. n. The position of the hammer of a firearm when ready for firing.
8. n. A tilting or jaunty turn upward: the cock of a hat.
9. n. Vulgar Slang The penis.
10. n. Archaic The characteristic cry of a rooster early in the morning.
11. v. To set the hammer of (a firearm) in a position ready for firing.
12. v. To set (a device, such as a camera shutter) in a position ready for use.
13. v. To tilt or turn up or to one side, usually in a jaunty or alert manner: cocked an eyebrow in response to a silly question.
14. v. To raise in preparation to throw or hit: cocked the bat before swinging at the pitch.
15. v. To set the hammer of a firearm in a position ready for firing.
16. v. To turn or stick up.
17. v. To strut; swagger.
18. idiom. snoot Slang To express scorn or derision by or as if by placing the thumb on the nose and wiggling the fingers; thumb one's nose: "[He] could cock a snoot at the rest of the . . . world and blithely go his own way” ( Elie Kedourie).
19. idiom. cock of the walk An overbearing or domineering person.
20. n. A cone-shaped pile of straw or hay.
21. v. To arrange (straw or hay) into piles shaped like cones.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

1. n. The male of the domestic fowl; specifically, a male chicken one year old or older, one less than a year old being properly called a cockerel. The cock is celebrated for his lordly demeanor, his pugnacity, and his crowing before dawn or in token of victory.
2. n. The male of any other bird, particularly of the gallinaceous kind: in this use especially in composition, as in peacock, turkey-cock, cockrobin, cock-sparrow, etc.
3. n. A bird, particularly a gallinaceous bird, without reference to sex: usually in composition or with a distinctive epithet or qualifying phrase, as in blackcock, logcock, woodcock, and the phrasal names below.
4. n. Cock-crowing; the time when cocks crow in the morning.
5. n. A leader; a chief person; a ruling spirit: as, cock of the school.
6. n. A fellow; chap: a familiar term of address or appellation, usually preceded by old, and used much in the same way as fellow, chap, boy, etc.
7. n. A vane in the shape of a cock; a weather-cock.
8. n. A faucet or turn-valve, contrived for the purpose of permitting or arresting the flow of fluids or air through a pipe, usually taking its special name from its peculiar use or construction: as, air-cock, feed-cock, gage-cock, etc.
9. n. The portion of the lock of a firearm which by its fall, when released through the action of the trigger, produces the discharge; in a flint-lock, the part that holds the flint; in a percussion-lock, the hammer.
10. n. In a firearm, the position into which the hammer is brought by being pulled back to the first or second catch. See at full cock, at half cock, below.
11. n. The style or gnomon of a dial.
12. n. The needle of a balance.
13. n. The piece which forms the bearing of the balance in a clock or watch.
14. n. Same as cockee.
15. n. A fictitious narrative, in verse or prose, sold in the streets as a true account; a cock-and-bull story; a canard.
16. To raise or draw back the cock or hammer of (a gun or pistol), as a preliminary to firing: as, he cocked his rifle.
17. To set cocks to fighting, or to train them for fighting.
18. To turn up or to one side in a jaunty or significant way; give a pert, knowing, or inquiring turn to: as, to cock the head; to cock the eye at a person; to cock the brim of a hat; the horse cocked up his ears.
19. To hold up the head; look big, pert, or domineering.
20. The act of turning up or to one side in a jaunty or significant way, as the head or a hat; the position of anything thus placed.
21. A particular shape given to a hat, especially by turning up and fastening the brim.
22. One of the flaps or parts of a hat turned up. See flap.
23. n. A small conical pile of hay, so shaped for shedding rain; a haycock.
24. In hay-making, to put into cocks or piles.
25. n. A small boat; a cockboat; a skiff.
26. n. A nock or notch, especially that in the butt-end of an arrow, or on the stock of a crossbow, which receives or retains the string.
27. To fight; contend.
28. n. Fight.
29. A variant of calk.
30. n. A cockle.
31. To pamper; cocker.
32. n. Scarlet.
33. n. A perversion of or substitution for the word God, occurring in oaths, such as “(By) cock's body” (bones, wounds, nouns, etc.), “by cock and pye,” etc. Compare gog in similar use.

Wiktionary

1. n. A small pile
2. v. transitive To form into piles.
3. n. obsolete A corruption of the word God, used in oaths.
4. n. Short for cock-boat, a type of small boat.
5. n. A male bird, especially a domestic fowl.
6. n. Male chicken or other gallinaceous bird.
7. n. A valve or tap for controlling flow in plumbing.
8. n. The hammer of a firearm trigger mechanism.
9. n. slang, vulgar The penis.
10. n. curling The circle at the end of the rink.
11. n. The state of being cocked; an upward turn, tilt or angle.
12. n. UK, New Zealand, pejorative, slang A stupid person.
13. n. informal, UK, Tasmania An informal term of address.
14. n. A boastful tilt of one's head or hat
15. n. informal shuttlecock
16. v. transitive To lift the cock of a firearm; to prepare (a gun) to be fired.
17. v. intransitive To be prepared to be triggered.
18. v. transitive To erect, notably lift or tilt (headwear) boastfully
19. v. UK, transitive, slang To copulate with.
20. v. transitive To turn or twist something upwards or to one side.
21. interj. slang Expression of annoyance.

GNU Webster's 1913

1. n. The male of birds, particularly of gallinaceous or domestic fowls.
2. n. A vane in the shape of a cock; a weathercock.
3. n. Humorous A chief man; a leader or master.
4. n. obsolete The crow of a cock, esp. the first crow in the morning; cockcrow.
5. n. A faucet or valve.
6. n. The style of gnomon of a dial.
7. n. The indicator of a balance.
8. n. The bridge piece which affords a bearing for the pivot of a balance in a clock or watch.
9. n. vulgar a penis.
10. v. To set erect; to turn up.
11. v. To shape, as a hat, by turning up the brim.
12. v. To set on one side in a pert or jaunty manner.
13. v. To turn (the eye) obliquely and partially close its lid, as an expression of derision or insinuation.
14. v. To strut; to swagger; to look big, pert, or menacing.
15. n. The act of cocking; also, the turn so given.
16. n. The notch of an arrow or crossbow.
17. n. The hammer in the lock of a firearm.
18. v. To draw the hammer of (a firearm) fully back and set it for firing.
19. v. To draw back the hammer of a firearm, and set it for firing.
20. n. A small concial pile of hay.
21. v. To put into cocks or heaps, as hay.
22. n. A small boat.
23. n. obsolete A corruption or disguise of the word God, used in oaths.

WordNet 3.0

1. v. tilt or slant to one side
2. v. set the trigger of a firearm back for firing
3. n. obscene terms for penis
4. n. faucet consisting of a rotating device for regulating flow of a liquid
5. n. the part of a gunlock that strikes the percussion cap when the trigger is pulled
6. n. adult male chicken
7. v. to walk with a lofty proud gait, often in an attempt to impress others
8. n. adult male bird