Usually means: Mythical creature with deadly gaze.
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General (20 matching dictionaries)
  1. cockatrice: Merriam-Webster
  2. cockatrice: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. cockatrice: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. cockatrice: Collins English Dictionary
  5. cockatrice: Vocabulary.com
  6. Cockatrice, cockatrice: Wordnik
  7. cockatrice: Wiktionary
  8. cockatrice: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. cockatrice: Infoplease Dictionary
  10. Cockatrice, cockatrice: Dictionary.com
  11. cockatrice: Online Etymology Dictionary
  12. Cockatrice (Dungeons & Dragons), Cockatrice (disambiguation), Cockatrice: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  13. Cockatrice: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  14. cockatrice: Rhymezone
  15. Cockatrice: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  16. cockatrice: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  17. cockatrice: FreeDictionary.org
  18. cockatrice: Mnemonic Dictionary
  19. cockatrice: TheFreeDictionary.com
  20. Cockatrice: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. An Illustrated Dictionary of Jewelry (No longer online)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. cockatrice: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. cockatrice: Wordcraft Dictionary

Religion (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Cockatrice: Easton Bible
  2. Cockatrice: Smith's Bible Dictionary
  3. COCKATRICE: Glossary of Biblical English of the Authorised Version of the HOLY BIBLE

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. cockatrice: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. cockatrice: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (cockatrice)

noun:  (mythology) A legendary creature about the size and shape of a dragon or wyvern, but in appearance resembling a giant rooster, with some lizard-like characteristics.
noun:  (obsolete) A mistress, a harlot.
noun:  (fantasy, folklore) A snake or serpent that appears to be hatched from a rooster, or cock's, egg.
noun:  (speculated) The cobra.
noun:  (obsolete, figurative) Any venomous or deadly thing.

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