\Cock"tail`\, n.
1. A beverage made of brandy, whisky, or gin, iced, flavored,
   and sweetened. [U. S.]
2. (Stock Breeding) A horse, not of pure breed, but having
   only one eighth or one sixteenth impure blood in his
   veins. --Darwin.
3. A mean, half-hearted fellow; a coward. [Slang, Eng.]
         It was in the second affair that poor little Barney
         showed he was a cocktail.             --Thackeray.
4. (Zo["o]l.) A species of rove beetle; -- so called from its
   habit of elevating the tail.