Cocktail

·noun A mean, half-hearted fellow; a coward.

II. Cocktail ·noun A beverage made of brandy, whisky, or gin, iced, flavored, and sweetened.

III. Cocktail ·noun A species of rove beetle;

— so called from its habit of elevating the tail.

IV. Cocktail ·noun A horse, not of pure breed, but having only one eighth or one sixteenth impure blood in his veins.