[cf. ALECTORIAN.]

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  1.  A stone fabled to be found in a cock’s gizzard.

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1586.  Bright, Melanch., xxxix. 264–5. The Alectorian or Cockes stone … wherewith (as it is reported) the famous Milo Crotonien alway stoode inuincible.

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1611.  Cotgr., Alectoire, the cocke stone; a Christall coloured stone (as big as a beane) found in the gyzerne, or maw of some Cockes.

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  † 2.  A name of the Kidney-bean. Obs.

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1756.  P. Browne, Jamaica, 291. The Kidney-Bean, or Cock-stone. This plant is cultivated in most parts of the world.

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