† cocke Obs.
Also 4–5 cok, cocce, and (after L.) cocco, corruptly cocto: cf. also coccyn, coctin.
[ad. L. coccum, and its abl. case cocco, scarlet: see coccyn, coccus.]
Scarlet.
| 1382 Wyclif Ex. xxvii. 16 Purpur, and cocto twies died [1388 of reed selk]. ― 1 Kings Prol. 4 Other men bise, and purpur, and cocko [v.r. cocce, cok, cocke] offren, and iacynct. ― Rev. xviii. 16 Clothid with bijce, and purpur, and cocke [v.r. coctyn, or reed, coccyn, red scarlet.] 1388 ― Ex. xxviii. 5 Reed selk twies died [v.r. cocco] and bijs. |