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Definition of Weathircock

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.

Weath"er*cock`, v. t. To supply with a weathercock; to serve as a weathercock for.

Whose blazing wyvern weathercock the spire.
Tennyson.

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.

Weath"er*cock`, v. t. To supply with a weathercock; to serve as a weathercock for.

Whose blazing wyvern weathercock the spire.
Tennyson.

- Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

  • (US) A weather vane in the shape of a cockerel
- The Nuttall Encyclopedia

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