Thesaurus: weathercock

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1. n. 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.
2. n. Hence, any thing or person that turns easily and frequently; one who veers with every change of current opinion; a fickle, inconstant person.
3. v. t. To supply with a weathercock; to serve as a weathercock for.
4. n. weathervane with a vane in the form of a rooster
5. 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. To supply with a weathercock; to serve as a weathercock for. Whose blazing wyvern weathercock the spire. Tennyson.
6. To supply with a weathercock; to serve as a weathercock for.Whose blazing wyvern weathercock the spire. Tennyson.
7. n. weathervane with a vane in the form of a rooster