COCKS. The cock is preeminently a sun symbol. In western Asia the crowing cock is closely associated with solar rituals; in the ancient Near East it became an integral part of the solar iconography during the second millennium BCE, and the mythology of...

Used mainly by British male speakers to other men in a friendly way. The expression dates from the seventeenth century and derives from the slang use of ‘cock’ to mean a man who fights with great courage. ‘He has drawn blood of him...

This is a mainly American term for a cock, one that has sometimes been applied to a man who is cocky, or vain. The occasional instances of vocative use that come to light, however, appear to be reasonably flattering. In George Meredith’s Henry...

Roosters are the clock of the fields. (Spanish) The country rooster does not crow in the town. (Swahili) The rooster of a lucky man lays eggs for him....

A rooster, cock or cockerel is a male chicken (Gallus gallus), the female being called a hen. The original term is "cock", from Old English cocc, but this term tends to be avoided these days due to its use in sexual slang. It is replaced by euphemisms:...

Rooster owners in this Southern California city may be about to get their feathers ruffled.Measure A on Tuesday's ballot seeks to muffle incessant cock-a-doodle-dooing and crack down on illegal cockfighting by limiting the number of roosters residents can own in rural areas within the city...

Even on "The Sopranos," Michael Imperioli never had a co-star like this one: a bird with shiny black plumage topped by a bright red comb.Dino is a fighting rooster in Mike Batistick's "Chicken," a new play about an anguished Bronx family staged at the 64-seat...

A man who told police he bit the head off a rooster accepted a prosecution offer Monday to drop the case if he is not rearrested within the next six months.Humberto Rodriguez was arrested June 29, 2006, and charged with animal cruelty after a neighbor...

Big Red, the rooster whose daily tours of Main Street brought national attention to this mid-Willamette Valley town, died this week after getting mauled by a dog. The Rhode Island Red was attacked Tuesday afternoon while walking to...