[f. prec. sb.]

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  † 1.  intr. To weathercock it: to veer or vary like a weathercock. Obs.

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1654.  J. P[rice], Tyrants & Protectors Set forth, 39. Men that will be of the Kings Religion, be he of what Religion he will, and are clamorous against all that cannot weather-cock it like themselves.

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  2.  trans. To provide with a weathercock; to serve as a weathercock for.

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1658.  S. Austin’s Naps upon Parnassus, B 4. But that’s a work onely befits the Gods, To Weather-cock their Eyes with fishing-rods.

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1864.  Tennyson, Aylmer’s Field, 17. Whose blazing wyvern weathercock’d the spire.

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1883.  G. H. Boughton, in Harper’s Mag., April, 698/2. Elaborately adorned gables, crow-stepped, scrolled, and weather-cocked and tableted.

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  3.  To send (a person) up to the weathercock. jocular nonce-use.

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a. 1845.  [see MAST-HEAD v. 1].

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