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.
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Weath"er*cock`, v. t.
To supply with a weathercock; to serve as a weathercock for.
Whose blazing wyvern weathercock the spire.
Tennyson.
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