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weathercock |
3 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Weathercock \Weath"er*cock`\, n. 1. A vane, or weather vane; -- so called because originally often in the figure of a cock, turning on the top of a spire with the wind, and showing its direction. ``As a wedercok that turneth his face with every wind.'' --Chaucer. Noisy weathercocks rattled and sang of mutation. --Longfellow. 2. Hence any thing or person that turns easily and frequently; one who veers with every change of current opinion; a fickle, inconstant person. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Weathercock \Weath"er*cock`\, v. t. To supply with a weathercock; to serve as a weathercock for Whose blazing wyvern weathercock the spire. --Tennyson. From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: weathercock n : especially a vane in the form of a rooster
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