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COCKSCOMB, n.

1. The caruncle or comb of a cock.

2. A plant. This name is given to the Celosia cristata, the Pedicularis or louse-wort, and the Rhinanthus, or yellow rattle.

3. A fop, or vain silly fellow. [See Coxcomb.]

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