WEATHERCOCKED

Verb

weathercocked

simple past tense and past participle of weathercock

Source: Wiktionary


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. "As a wedercok that turneth his face with every wind." 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.

Weath"er*cock`, v. t.

Definition: To supply with a weathercock; to serve as a weathercock for. Whose blazing wyvern weathercock the spire. Tennyson.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition



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