Cocker: alternatives and connections

To touch; to feel with the hand; to use or hold with the hand.

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One of a breed of small dogs having long and thick hair and large drooping ears. The legs are usually strongly feathered, and the tail bushy. See Ill…

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To handle; to manage; to use; to bear one's self toward; as, to treat prisoners cruelly; to treat children kindly.

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An infant or young child of either sex; a babe.

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To parboil, or soften by boiling.

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A lamb reared without the aid of the dam. Hence: A pet, in general.

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To be complacent toward; to give way to; not to oppose or restrain

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To feed to the full; to feed luxuriously; to glut; as, to pamper the body or the appetite.

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To plunder; to strip by violence; to pillage; to rob; -- with of before the name of the thing taken; as, to spoil one of his goods or possession.

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