- 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. Source: opted
- 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. Source: opted
- 3. v. t. To supply with a weathercock; to serve as a weathercock for. Source: opted
- 4. n. weathervane with a vane in the form of a rooster Source: wordnet
- 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. Source: webster
- 6. To supply with a weathercock; to serve as a weathercock for.Whose blazing wyvern weathercock the spire. Tennyson. Source: adambom
- 7. n. weathervane with a vane in the form of a rooster Source: ecdict
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