Cockatrice
Cockatrice (-trīs; 277) , noun
[Old French cocatrice crocodile, French cocatrix, cocatrice. The word is a corruption from the same source as English crocodile, but was confused with cock the bird, French 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.
2.
(Heraldry) A representation of this serpent. It has the head, wings, and legs of a bird, and tail of a serpent.
3.
(Scripture) A venomous serpent which which cannot now be identified.
The weaned child shall put his hand on the cockatrice's [Rev. Ver. basilisk's] den.
[Rev. Ver. basilisk's]
4.
Any venomous or deadly thing.
This little cockatrice of a king.