How to pronounce“cockatrice”in English
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Definitions of “cockatrice”
Synonym of basilisk, a serpentine dragon so poisonous that even its gaze is deadly.
“Vp on the eddere and the kokatrice thou shalt go”
A monster with a lethal gaze or breath, originally believed to originate from a cock egg brooded over by a snake or toad, later specifically combining serpentine and landfowl features and particularly (heraldry) a rooster-headed wyvern.
“A forlyued cok leiþ eiren in his laste elde... and ȝif any venemous worme sittiþ on broode þerevppon in þe canyculer dayes, þerof is igendrid... a cocatrice.”