a. Without a cock or cocks.
1830. J. Wilson, in Blackw. Mag., XXVII. Feb., 279. A couple of cockless hens, innocent of cackle.
1856. T. Aird, Poet. Wks., 147.
| Oft have we wished the gallinaceous tribe | |
| Had but one neck, and that were in our hands | |
| To twist and draw: the morrow’s sun had risen | |
| Upon a cockless and a henless world. |
