weathercock : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: weathercock	by the DICT Development Group
3 results for weathercock
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
weathercock n weathervane with a vane in the form of a rooster
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Weathercock \Weath"er*cock`\, n. 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. [bd]As a wedercok that turneth his face with every wind.[b8] --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.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Weathercock \Weath"ercock`\, v. t. To supply with a weathercock; to serve as a weathercock* for. Whose blazing wyvern weathercock the spire. --Tennyson.