Hypertext Webster Gateway: "weathercock"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Weathercock \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.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Weathercock \Weath"er*cock`\, v. t.
To supply with a weathercock; to serve as a weathercock for.
Whose blazing wyvern weathercock the spire. --Tennyson.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
weathercock
n : weathervane with a vane in the form of a rooster
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