cocktail

from WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006)
cocktail
    n 1: a short mixed drink
    2: an appetizer served as a first course at a meal
from The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Cocktail \Cock"tail`\, n.
   1. A beverage made of brandy, whisky, or gin, iced, flavored,
      and sweetened. [U. S.]
      [1913 Webster]

   2. (Stock Breeding) A horse, not of pure breed, but having
      only one eighth or one sixteenth impure blood in his
      veins. --Darwin.
      [1913 Webster]

   3. A mean, half-hearted fellow; a coward. [Slang, Eng.]
      [1913 Webster]

            It was in the second affair that poor little Barney
            showed he was a cocktail.             --Thackeray.
      [1913 Webster]

   4. (Zool.) A species of rove beetle; -- so called from its
      habit of elevating the tail.
      [1913 Webster]
from The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (8 July 2008)
GMD Toolbox for Compiler Construction
Cocktail

   (Or Cocktail) A huge set of compiler building tools for
   {MS-DOS}, {Unix} and {OS/2}.

   parser generator (LALR -> C, Modula-2), documentation, parser
   generator (LL(1) -> C, Modula-2), tests, scanner generator (->
   C, Modula-2), tests translator (Extended BNF -> BNF),
   translator (Modula-2 -> C), translator (BNF (yacc) -> Extended
   BNF), examples abstract syntax tree generator,
   attribute-evaluator generator, code generator

   Latest version: 9209.

   The {MS-DOS} version requires DJ Delorie's DOS extender
   ({go32}) and the {OS/2} version requires the {emx} programming
   environment.

   (ftp://ftp.karlsruhe.gmd.de/pub/cocktail/dos).  OS/2 FTP
   (ftp://ftp.eb.ele.tue.nl/pub/src/cocktail/dos-os2.zoo).

   Mailing list: [email protected] (subscribe to Cocktail).
   E-mail: Josef Grosch <[email protected]>, Willem Jan
   Withagen <[email protected]> (OS/2).

   (1992-01-01)
from Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
70 Moby Thesaurus words for "cocktail":
      Cloudcuckooland, Mickey, Mickey Finn, alto-cumulus, alto-stratus,
      anvil cloud, aperitif, banner cloud, billowy cloud, cap cloud,
      chaser, cirro-cumulus, cirro-fillum, cirro-nebula, cirro-stratus,
      cirro-velum, cirrus, cirrus cloud, cirrus haze, cirrus stripe,
      cloud, cloud band, cloud bank, cloud drift, cloud mass,
      cloud street, cloudland, cloudling, cloudscape, cottony cloud,
      cumulo-cirro-stratus, cumulo-cirrus, cumulo-nimbus, cumulo-stratus,
      cumulus, cumulus cloud, curl cloud, doch-an-dorrach, drink,
      eye-opener, fleecy cloud, fractocumulus, high fog, highball,
      knockout drops, mackerel sky, mammatocumulus, mixed drink,
      mushroom cloud, nightcap, nimbus, nimbus cloud, parting cup,
      pousse-cafe, punch, rain cloud, scud, snail cloud, squall cloud,
      stirrup cup, storm cloud, strato-cumulus, stratus, stratus cloud,
      sundowner, thundercloud, thunderhead, water carrier,
      wee doch-an-dorrach, woolpack
antiflux / dictionary / cocktail
[email protected]