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COCKPIT , the See also: term originally for an enclosed place in which the sport of See also: cock-fighting (q.v.) was carried on
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On the site of an old cockpit opposite See also: Whitehall in See also: London was a See also: block of buildings used from the 17th century as offices by the See also: treasury and the privy council, for which the old name survived till the early 19th century
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The name was given also to a theatre in London, built in the early See also: part of the 17th century on the site of See also: Drury Lane theatre
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As the place where the wounded in See also: battle were tended, or where the junior See also: officers consorted, the term was also formerly applied to a See also: cabin used for these purposes on the See also: lower See also: deck of a See also: man-of-war
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COCKROACH'
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(Blattidae), a See also: family of orthopterous See also: insects, distinguished by their flattened bodies, long thread-like antennae, and shining leathery integuments., Cockroaches are nocturnal creatures, secreting themselves in chinks and crevices about houses, issuing from their retreats when the See also: lights are extinguished, and moving about with extraordinary rapidity in See also: search of See also: food
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They are voracious and omnivorous, devouring, or at least damaging, whatever comes in their way, for all the See also: species emit a disagreeable odour, which they communicate to whatever article of food or clothing they may touch
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The See also: common cockroach (Stilopyga orientalis) is not indigenous to See also: Europe, but is believed to have been introduced from the See also: Levant in the cargoes of trading vessels
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The wings in the male are shorter than the See also: body; in the See also: female they are rudimentary
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The eggs, which are 16 in number, are deposited in a leathery capsule fixed by a gum-like substance to the See also: abdomen of the female, and thus carried about till the See also: young are ready to escape, when the capsule becomes softened by the emission of a fluid substance
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The larvae are perfectly See also: white at first and wingless, although in other respects not unlike their parents, but they are not mature insects until after the
See also: sixth casting of the skin
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The See also: American cockroach (Periplaneta americana) is larger than the former, and is not uncommon in See also: European. seaports trading with See also: America, being conveyed in cargoes of grain and other food produce
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It is very abundant in the Zoological Gardens in London, where it occurs in conjunction with a much smaller imported species Phyllodromia germanica, which may also be seen in some of the cheaper restaurants . In both of these species theSee also: females, as well as the See also: males, are winged
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In addition to these noxious and obtrusive forms, See also: England has a few indigenous species belonging to the genus Eclobia, which live under stones or fallen trees in See also: fields and woods
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The largest known species is the drummer of the West Indies (Blabera gigantea), so called from the tapping noise it makes on See also: wood, sufficient, when joined in by several individuals, as usually happens, to break the slumbers of a See also: household
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It is about 2 in. long, with wings 3 in. in expanse, and forms one of the most See also: noisome and injurious of See also: insect pests
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Wingless females of many tropical species See also: present a close superficial resemblance to woodlice; and one interesting apterous See also: form known as Pseudoglomeris, from the See also: East Indies, is able to See also: roll up like a See also: millipede
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The best mode of destroying cockroaches is, when the fire and
The word is a corruption of Sp. cucaracha
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In America it is commonly abbreviated to " See also: roach."lights are extinguished at See also: night, to See also: lay some See also: treacle on a piece of wood afloat on a broad See also: basin of See also: water
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This proves a temptation to the vermin too See also: great to be resisted
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The chinks and holes from which they issue should also be filled up with unslaked lime, or painted with a mixture of borax and heated turpentine
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See generally See also: Miall and Denny, The Structure and See also: Life See also: History of the Cockroach (1887); G
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See also: Carpenter, Insects: their Structure and Life (1899) ; See also: Charles Lester Marlatt, Household Insects (U.S
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Department of
See also: Agriculture, revised edition, 1902) ; See also: Leland See also: Ossian See also: Howard, The Insect See also: Book (1902)
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COCK'S-COMB, in botany, a cultivated form of Celosia cristata (natural See also: order Amarantaceae), in which the inflorescence is monstrous, forming a flat " fasciated " See also: axis bearing numerous small See also: flowers
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The plant is a low-growing herbaceous See also: annual, bearing a large, comb-like, dark red, See also: scarlet or purplish mass of flowers
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Seeds are sown in See also: March or
See also: April in pans of See also: rich, well-drained sandy See also: soil, which are placed in a hot-See also: bed at 65° to 70° in a moist atmosphere
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The seedlings require plenty of See also: light, and when large enough to handle are potted off and placed close to the See also: glass in a See also: frame under similar conditions
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When the heads show they are shifted into 5-in. pots, which are plunged to their rims in ashes or coco-See also: nut fibre refuse, in a hot-bed, as before, close to the glass; they are sparingly watered and more air admitted
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The soil recommended is a See also: half-rich sandy loam and half-rotten cow and See also: stable manure mixed with a dash of See also: silver See also: sand
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The other species of Celosia cultivated are C. pyramidalis, with a pyramidal inflorescence, varying in colour in the great number of varieties, and C. argentea, with a dense white in-florescence
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They require a similar cultural treatment to that given for C. cristata
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