Cock-crowing
21crowing — I noun an instance of boastful talk his brag is worse than his fight whenever he won we were exposed to his gasconade • Syn: ↑brag, ↑bragging, ↑crow, ↑vaporing, ↑line shooting, ↑ …
22cocks — A cock crowing at daybreak drives away *ghosts and evil spirits, and even Satan, as in the legend of the *Devil s Dyke. Henry *Bourne noted in his Antiquitates Vulgares (1725), chapter 6, that: It is a received tradition among the Vulgar,… …
23Bill, the Ventriloquial Rooster — is a well known sketch story by iconic Australian writer and poet Henry Lawson. The sketch is one of many to include Jack Mitchell the swagman as the story s main character and narrator. The story concerns a rooster that Mitchell s family once… …
24Day — The Jews reckoned the day from sunset to sunset (Lev. 23:32). It was originally divided into three parts (Ps. 55:17). The heat of the day (1 Sam. 11:11; Neh. 7:3) was at our nine o clock, and the cool of the day just before sunset (Gen. 3:8).… …
25Coburn — This long established surname, with the variation Coburn, is of early medieval Scottish origin, and is a territorial name from the lands so named in the Merse, Berwickshire. The component elements of the placename are either the Olde English pre… …
26Cockburn — This long established surname, with the variation Coburn, is of early medieval Scottish origin, and is a territorial name from the lands so named in the Merse, Berwickshire. The component elements of the placename are either the Olde English pre… …
27DIES — I. DIES Nicanoris, Festum Iudaeorum, de quo infra in voce Iudith. Diespiter, Iuppiter, quasi diei, i. e. lucis pater, uti Macrob. interpretatur. Hostat. l. 1. Carm. od. 34. v. 5. Namque Diespiter Igni corusco nubila dividens. Et idem l. 3. Carm.… …
28Matins — For the Anglican service of Mattins or Matins, see Morning Prayer (Anglican). Matins (also known as Orthros or Oútrenya in Eastern Churches) is the early morning or night prayer service in the Roman Catholic, Anglican, Lutheran and Eastern… …
29Animal rights — advocates propose that animals be viewed as persons, not property.[1] Description Animals are members of the moral community …
30cockcrow — /kok kroh /, n. the time at which a cock characteristically crows; daybreak; dawn. Also, cock crowing. [1350 1400; ME. See COCK1, CROW2] * * * …
