cockle

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

1. n. Any of various bivalve mollusks of the family Cardiidae, having rounded or heart-shaped shells with radiating ribs.
2. n. The shell of a cockle.
3. n. A wrinkle; a pucker.
4. n. Nautical A cockleshell.
5. v. To become or cause to become wrinkled or puckered.
6. idiom. cockles of (one's) heart One's innermost feelings: The valentine warmed the cockles of my heart.
7. n. Any of several weedy plants, especially the corn cockle.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

1. n. Darnel, Lolium temulentum; rye-grass, L. perenne; tare; a weed generally.
2. n. The corn-rose or corn-cockle, Lychnis (Agrostemma) Githago.
3. n. A mollusk of the family Cardiidæ and genus Cardium; especially, the common edible species of Europe, Cardium edule; the shell of such mollusks.
4. n. An equivalve bivalve, resembling or related to mollusks of the genus Cardium. A bivalve mollusk of the family Myidæ, Mya truncata: so called in the Hebrides; more fully called lady-cockle.
5. n. A univalve mollusk of the family Muricidæ; the murex or purple-fish.
6. n. A ringlet or crimp.
7. n. [See cockle, verb] The instrument used in cockling the cogs of a mill.
8. n. Same as cockle, 2 .
9. n. To be hanged: from the noise made while strangling.
10. To pucker or contract into wrinkles, as cloth or glass.
11. To rise into frequent ridges, as the waves of a chopping sea.
12. To make a slight score on the cogs or teeth of a mill, as a guide for cutting off their ends, so that the whole may be given a truly circular form.
13. To cause to pucker in wrinkles: as, rain will cockle silk.
14. n. The body or fire-chamber of an air-stove, usually made of fire-brick.
15. n. A kind of kiln or stove for drying hops.
16. n. In porcelain manufacturing, a large stove used for drying biscuit-ware which has been dipped in glaze, preparatory to burning.
17. n. A young cock; a cockerel.
18. To cry like a cock.
19. n. An Australian bivalve mollusk, Cardium tenuicostatum; also, a member of the genus Chione.
20. n. A small crisp confection of sugar stiffened with flour, variously flavored, and of a pink, light-yellow, or white color. Mottoes were printed on them in red letters.
21. n. A pucker or wrinkle; an unevenness, as in cloth or glass.
22. n. A disease of wheat caused by a nematoid worm, Telenchus tritici, which infests the grain and causes it to become deformed.

Wiktionary

1. n. Any of several field weeds, such as the corn cockle, Agrostemma githago, and Lolium temulentum.
2. n. Any of various edible European bivalve mollusks, of the family Cardiidae, having heart-shaped shells.
3. n. The shell of such a mollusk.
4. n. plural One’s innermost feelings (only in the expression “the cockles of one’s heart”).
5. n. A wrinkle, pucker
6. n. hence A defect in sheepskin; firm dark nodules caused by the bites of keds on live sheep
7. v. To wrinkle, pucker

GNU Webster's 1913

1. n. (Zoöl.) A bivalve mollusk, with radiating ribs, of the genus Cardium, especially Cardium edule, used in Europe for food; -- sometimes applied to similar shells of other genera.
2. n. A cockleshell.
3. n. The mineral black tourmaline or schorl; -- so called by the Cornish miners.
4. n. engraving The fire chamber of a furnace.
5. n. A hop-drying kiln; an oast.
6. n. The dome of a heating furnace.
7. v. To cause to contract into wrinkles or ridges, as some kinds of cloth after a wetting.
8. n. A plant or weed that grows among grain; the corn rose (Luchnis Githage).
9. n. The Lotium, or darnel.

WordNet 3.0

1. v. to gather something into small wrinkles or folds
2. n. common edible European bivalve
3. n. common edible, burrowing European bivalve mollusk that has a strong, rounded shell with radiating ribs
4. v. stir up (water) so as to form ripples