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 cockatrice ['kɑkətrɪs]   添加此单词到默认生词本
n. (传说中)看一眼就可以致它物于死命的毒蛇

  1. Cockatrice- Terror to all beholders.
    鸡身蛇尾怪-视它,你会感到恐怖。
  2. Rejoice not thou, whole Palestina, because the rod of him that smote thee is broken: for out of the serpent's root shall come forth a cockatrice, and his fruit shall be a fiery flying serpent.
    赛14:29非利士全地阿、要因击打你的杖折断就喜乐.为从蛇的根、生出毒蛇.所生的、火焰的飞龙。


cockatrice
[ noun ]
monster hatched by a reptile from a cock's egg; able to kill with a glance
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Cockatrice \Cock"a*trice\ (-tr[imac]s; 277), n. [OF. cocatrice
crocodile, F. cocatrix, cocatrice. The word is a corruption
from the same source as E. crocodile, but was confused with
cock the bird, F. coq, whence arose the fable that the animal
was produced from a cock's egg. See {Crocodile}.]
1. A fabulous serpent whose breath and look were said to be
fatal. See {Basilisk}.

That bare vowel, I, shall poison more
Than the death-darting eye of cockatrice. --Shak.

2. (Her.) A representation of this serpent. It has the head,
wings, and legs of a bird, and tail of a serpent.

3. (Script.) A venomous serpent which which cannot now be
identified.

The weaned child shall put his hand on the
cockatrice's

Note: [Rev. Ver. basilisk's] den. --Is. xi. 8.

4. Any venomous or deadly thing.

This little cockatrice of a king. --Bacon.

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