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Pronunciation : Cock"tail`
Part of Speech : n.
Definition : 1. A beverage made of brandy, whisky, or gin, iced, flavored, and sweetened. [U. S.]
2. (Stock Breeding)
Defn: A horse, not of pure breed, but having only one eighth or one sixteenth impure blood in his veins. Darwin.
3. A mean, half-hearted fellow; a coward. [Slang, Eng.] It was in the second affair that poor little Barney showed he was a cocktail. Thackeray.
4. (Zo?l.)
Defn: A species of rove beetle; -- so called from its habit of elevating the tail.
Source : Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
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