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Date "WEATHER-COCK" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1812. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Literature | Weather-cock By a Papal enactment made in the middle of the ninth century, the figure of a cock was set up on every church-steeple as the emblem of St. Peter. The emblem is in allusion to his denial of our Lord thrice before the cock crew twice. On the second crowing of the cock the warning of his Master flashed across his memory, and the repentant apostle "went out and wept bitterly." Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
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Crosswords: WEATHER-COCK |
| Specialty definitions using "WEATHER-COCK": IMPALE. (references) |
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Lexicography | Devil's Dictionary | IMPALE, v.t. In popular usage to pierce with any weapon which remains fixed in the wound. This, however, is inaccurate; to imaple is, properly, to put to death by thrusting an upright sharp stake into the body, the victim being left in a sitting position. This was a common mode of punishment among many of the nations of antiquity, and is still in high favor in China and other parts of Asia. Down to the beginning of the fifteenth century it was widely employed in "churching" heretics and schismatics. Wolecraft calls it the "stoole of repentynge," and among the common people it was jocularly known as "riding the one legged horse." Ludwig Salzmann informs us that in Thibet impalement is considered the most appropriate punishment for crimes against religion; and although in China it is sometimes awarded for secular offences, it is most frequently adjudged in cases of sacrilege. To the person in actual experience of impalement it must be a matter of minor importance by what kind of civil or religious dissent he was made acquainted with its discomforts; but doubtless he would feel a certain satisfaction if able to contemplate himself in the character of a weather-cock on the spire of the True Church. |
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| Language | Period | Translations |
| Old English | 450-1100 | fana. (various references) |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: weathercock. | |
| Words within the letters "a-c-c-e-e-h-k-o-r-t-w" | |
-3 letters: checkrow, cocreate, thwacker. | |
-4 letters: accrete, caroche, catcher, cheater, checker, coacher, coerect, crochet, crocket, hectare, hektare, hoecake, hotcake, ochreae, ocreate, reawoke, recheat, recheck, reteach, teacher, trochee, watcher, weather, whacker, whereat, whereto, wreathe. | |
-5 letters: aether, cachet, caroch, cerate, chawer, cheero, chewer, choker, chorea, coatee, coater, cocker, coerce, cohere, cratch, create, creche, crotch, ecarte, echoer, etcher. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-c-c-e-e-h-k-o-r-t-w" | |
+1 letter: weathercocks. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)57 45 41 54 48 45 52 2D 43 4F 43 4B |
| Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010111 01000101 01000001 01010100 01001000 01000101 01010010 00101101 01000011 01001111 01000011 01001011 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)W E A T H E R - C O C K |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0057 0045 0041 0054 0048 0045 0052 002D 0043 004F 0043 004B |
Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)573935544239521537493745 |
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