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Any of various edible European bivalve mollusks, of the family Cardiidae, having heart-shaped shells.
The shell of such a mollusk.
(in the plural) One’s innermost feelings (only in the expression “the cockles of one’s heart”).
(directly from French coquille) A wrinkle, pucker
(by extension) A defect in sheepskin; firm dark nodules caused by the bites of keds on live sheep
(mining, UK, Cornwall) The mineral black tourmaline or schorl.
(UK) The fire chamber of a furnace.
(UK) A kiln for drying hops; an oast.
(UK) The dome of a heating furnace.
To cause to contract into wrinkles or ridges, as some kinds of cloth after a wetting; to pucker.
Untrue, not factual, factually incorrect.
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Spurious, artificial.
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*:At her invitation he outlined for her the succeeding chapters with terse military accuracy?; and what she liked best and best understood was avoidance of that false modesty which condescends, turning technicality into pabulum.
(lb) Of a state in Boolean logic that indicates a negative result.
Uttering falsehood; dishonest or deceitful.
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Not faithful or loyal, as to obligations, allegiance, vows, etc.; untrue; treacherous.
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*(John Milton) (1608-1674)
*:I to myself was false , ere thou to me.
Not well founded; not firm or trustworthy; erroneous.
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*(Edmund Spenser) (c.1552–1599)
*:whose false foundation waves have swept away
Not essential or permanent, as parts of a structure which are temporary or supplemental.
(lb) Out of tune.
As a noun cockle
is any of various edible european bivalve mollusks, of the family cardiidae, having heart-shaped shells or cockle can be any of several field weeds, such as the corncockle, , and lolium temulentum .As a verb cockle
is to cause to contract into wrinkles or ridges, as some kinds of cloth after a wetting; to pucker.As an adjective false is
(label) one of two states of a boolean variable; logic.cockle
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Etymology 1
From (etyl) (m), from .Noun
(wikipedia cockle) (en noun)- (Raymond)
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Derived terms
* blood cockle * cockleshell * common cockle * warm the cockles of one's heartSee also
* scallopVerb
(cockl)Etymology 2
(Lolium temulentum) (Agrostemma githago) (Lolium temulentum) (Agrostemma githago) From (etyl) coccel, perhaps from a diminutive of (etyl)Synonyms
* (Lolium temulentum) darnel, false wheatSee also
* cheat * rye grass * tare * vetchAnagrams
*false
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Adjective
(er)A New English Dictionary on Historical Principles: Founded Mainly on the Materials Collected by the Philological Society, section=Part 1, publisher=Clarendon Press, location=Oxford, editor= , volume=1, page=217 , passage=Also the rule of false position, with dyuers examples not onely vulgar, but some appertaynyng to the rule of Algeber.}}