COPAL
COPAL, noun The concrete juice of a tree growing in Mexico or New Spain, hard, shining, transparent, citron-colored, and odoriferous. It is not strictly a gum nor a resin, as it...
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American Dictionary of the English Language, Noah Webster, 1828.
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COPARCENARY
COPARCENARY, noun [See Coparcener.] Partnership in inheritance; joint heirship; joint right of succession or joint succession to an estate of inheritance.
COPARCENER
COPARCENER, noun [con and parcener, Latin, to divide.] A coheir; one who has an equal portion of the inheritance of his or her ancestor with others.All the coparceners together ...
COPARCENY
COPARCENY, noun An equal share of an inheritance.
COPARTMENT
COPARTMENT, noun The same as compartment. [Not in use.]
COPARTNER
COPARTNER, noun [con and partner. See Coparcener.]1. One who has a share in a common stock for transacting business, or who is jointly concerned with one or more persons, in car...
COPARTNERSHIP
COPARTNERSHIP, noun1. Joint concern in business; a state of having joint share in a common stock, or a joint interest and concern in business, particularly in trade and manufact...
COPATAN
COPATAN, noun [See Cop.] High raised; pointed. [Not in use.]
COPE
COPE, noun1. A cover for the head.2. A sacerdotal ornament or vestment worn in sacred ministrations. An ornament worn by chanters and subchanters, when they officiate in solemni...
COPEMAN
COPEMAN, noun A chapman. [Not used.]
COPERNICAN
COPERNICAN, adjective Pertaining to Copernicus, a Prussian by birth, who taught the world the solar system now received, called the copernican system.
COPESMATE
COPESMATE, noun [cope and mate.] A companion or friend.
COPIED
COPIED, participle passive [See Copy.] Taken off; written or transcribed from an original or form; imitated.
COPIER
COPIER, COPYIST, noun One who copies; one who writes or transcribes from an original or form; a transcriber; an imitator; also, a plagiary.
COPING
COPING, noun [See cope, noun] The top or cover of a wall, made sloping to carry off the water. 1 Kings 7:9. A coping over, is a projecting work beveling on its under side.
COPIOUS
COPIOUS, adjective1. Abundant; plentiful; in great quantities; full; ample; furnishing full supplies.The tender heart is peace, and kindly pours its copious treasures forth in v...
COPIOUSNESS
COPIOUSNESS, noun1. Abundance; plenty; great quantity; full supply.2. Diffusiveness of style or manner of treating a subject; as the copiousness of Homer.
COPIST
COPIST, noun A copier; an ill formed word.
COPLAND
COPLAND, noun A piece of ground terminating in a cop or acute angle. [Not used in America.]
COPPED
COPPED, COPPLED, adjective [See Cop.] Rising to a point, or head.COPPED like a sugar loaf.
COPPEL
COPPEL. [See Cupel.]
COPPER
COPPER, noun [Latin, G., supposed to be so called from Cyprus, an isle in the Mediterranean. This opinion is probable, as the Greeks called it Cyprian brass, brass of Cyprus. In...
COPPER-BOTTOMED
COPPER-BOTTOMED, adjective Having a bottom sheathed with copper.
COPPER-FASTENED
COPPER-FASTENED, adjective Fastened with copper bolts.
COPPER-NOSE
COPPER-NOSE, noun A red nose.
COPPER-PLATE
COPPER-PLATE, noun A plate of copper on which concave lines are engraved or corroded, according to some delineated figure or design. This plate, when charged with any colored fl...
COPPER-SMITH
COPPER-SMITH, noun One whose occupation is to manufacture copper utensils.