Webster's Dictionary 1913

7831

Copperplate

Cop″per‐plate′ (kŏp″pẽr‐plāt′), n. (a) A plate of polished copper on which a design or writing is engraved. (b) An impression on paper taken from such a plate.☞ In printing from...

7832

Coppersmith

Cop″per‐smith′ (–smĭth′), n. One whose occupation is to manufacture copper utensils; a worker in copper.

7833

Copperworm

Cop″per‐worm′ (?), n.(Zoöl.) (a) The teredo; — so called because it injures the bottoms of vessels, where not protected by copper. (b) The ringworm.

7834

Coppery

Cop″per‐y (?), a. Mixed with copper; containing copper, or made of copper; like copper.

7835

Coppice

Cop″pice (kŏp″pĭs), n. [OF. copeiz, fr. coper, couper, to cut, F. couper, fr. cop, coup, colp, a blow, F. coup, L. colaphus, fr. Gr. κόλαφοσ. Cf. Copse, and cf. Coupé, Coupee.] ...

7836

Coppice (2)

Cop″pice (kŏp″pĭs), v. t. [imp. & p. p.Coppiced (–pĭst); p. pr. & vb. n.Coppicing (?).] (Forestry) To cause to grow in the form of a coppice; to cut back (as young timber) so as...

7837

Coppin

Cop″pin (?), n. [See Cop.] A cop of thread.

7838

Copple

Cop″ple (?), n. [A dim. of Cop.] Something rising in a conical shape; specifically, a hill rising to a point.A low cape, and upon it a copple not very high.Hakluyt.

7839

Copple dust

Cop″ple dust′ (?). Cupel dust.Powder of steel, or copple dust.Bacon.

7840

Copple-crown

Cop″ple–crown (?), n. A created or high-topped crown or head. “Like the copple-crown the lapwing has.” T. Randolph.— Cop″ple–crowned′ (#), a.

7841

Coppled

Cop″pled (?), a. [From Copple.] Rising to a point; conical; copped. Woodward.

7842

Copplestone

Cop″ple‐stone′ (?), n. A cobblestone.

7843

Copps

Copps (?), n. See Copse.

7844

Copra

Co″pra (?), n. [Malayálam koppara or Hind. khoprā.] (Com.) The dried meat of the cocoanut, from which cocoanut oil is expressed. [Written also cobra, copperah, coppra.]

7845

Coprolite

Cop″ro‐lite (?), n. [Gr. κόπροσ dung + -lite.] (Paleon.) A piece of petrified dung; a fossil excrement.

7846

Coprolitic

Cop′ro‐lit″ic (?), a. Containing, pertaining to, or of the nature of, coprolites.

7847

Coprophagan

Co‐proph″a‐gan (?), n. [See Coprophagous.] (Zoöl.) A kind of beetle which feeds upon dung.

7848

Coprophagous

Co‐proph″a‐gous (?), a.(Zoöl.) Feeding upon dung, as certain insects.

7849

Cops

Cops (?), n. [AS. cops, cosp, fetter.] The connecting crook of a harrow.

7850

Copse

Copse (?), n. [Contr. from coppice.] A wood of small growth; a thicket of brushwood. See Coppice.Near yonder copse where once the garden smiled.Goldsmith.

7851

Copse (2)

Copse, v. t. 1. To trim or cut; — said of small trees, brushwood, tufts of grass, etc. Halliwell.2. To plant and preserve, as a copse. Swift.

7852

Copsewood

Copse″wood (?), n. Brushwood; coppice. Macaulay.

7853

Copsy

Cops″y (?), a. Characterized by copses. “Copsy villages.” “Copsy banks.” J. Dyer.

7854

Coptic

Cop″tic (kŏp″tĭk), a. [Abbrev. from L. Aegyptius an Egyptian, Gr. �, Ar. kibtī, pl. kibt.] Of or pertaining to the Copts. — n. The language of the Copts.

7855

Coptic Church

Coptic Church. The native church of Egypt or church of Alexandria, which in general organization and doctrines resembles the Roman Catholic Church, except that it holds to the M...

7856

Copts

Copts (kŏpts″), n. pl.; sing.Copt (#). [See Coptic.] (Etnol.) 1. An Egyptian race thought to be descendants of the ancient Egyptians.2. The principal sect of Christians in Egypt...

7857

Copula

Cop″u‐la (?), n. [L., bond, band. See Couple.] 1. (Logic & Gram.) The word which unites the subject and predicate.2. (Mus.) The stop which connects the manuals, or the manuals w...