单词 | basilicock |
释义 | † basilicock Obs. Forms: 4 baselycoc, 4–5 -cok, basilicok, -iskoc, 5 basylicock, -ycok, 6 basilicock. [a. OF. basilicoc, -ecoc (nom. sing. and acc. pl. basilicos), f. basilic:—L. basiliscus basilisk + -oc = It. -occo, usually augmentative, sometimes diminutive. Here perhaps associated with coq cock: cf. cockatrice.] = basilisk 1.
1340Ayenb. 28 Þanne is he [the envious] of þe kende of þe baselycoc, uor no grenhede ne may yleste beuore hym. c1386Chaucer Pars. T. ⁋778 That sleeth right as the Basilicok [v.r. Baselycok] sleeth folk by the venym of his sighte. 1481Caxton Myrr. ii. vi. 77 Basylicocks [have]..the heed lyke a cocke and body of a serpent. 1583Stubbes Anat. Abus. (1877) 109 Like a Cockatrise, or Basilicock, which slay or kill men with the poison of their sighte. |

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