FOSSIL-COPAL, noun Highgate resin; a resinous substance found in perforating the bed of blue clay at Highgate, near London. It appears to be a true vegetable gum or resin, partly changed by remaining in the earth.
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Webster's Dictionary 1828
American Dictionary of the English Language, Noah Webster, 1828.