Webster's Dictionary 1913

7777

Cop

Cop (kŏp), n. [AS. cop; cf. G. kopf head. Cf. Cup, Cob.] 1. The top of a thing; the head; a crest.Cop they used to callThe tops of many hills.Drayton.2. A conical or conical-end...

7778

Cop-rose

Cop–rose′ (?), n. [F. coprose, of uncertain origin; cf. D. klaproos, klapperroos.] The red, or corn, poppy. [Written also cup-rose.]

7779

Copaiba

{ Co‐pai″ba (?; 277), Co‐pai″va (?) }, n. [Sp. & Pg., fr. Brazil. cupaúba.] (Med.) A more or less viscid, yellowish liquid, the bitter oleoresin of several species of Copaifera,...

7780

Copal

Co″pal (kō″pal; 277), [Sp., fr. Mexican copalli, a generic name of resins. Clavigero.] A resinous substance flowing spontaneously from trees of Zanzibar, Madagascar, and South A...

7781

Copalm

Co″palm′ (?), n. The yellowish, fragrant balsam yielded by the sweet gum; also, the tree itself.

7782

Coparcenary

Co‐par″ce‐na‐ry (kō̍‐pär″sē̍‐nā̍‐ry̆), n.; pl.Coparcenaries (–rĭz). [Pref. co- + parcenary] (Law) Partnership in inheritance; joint heirship; joint right of succession to an inh...

7783

Coparcener

Co‐par″ce‐ner (–nẽr), n. [Pref. co- + parcener.] (Law) One who has an equal portion with others of an inheritance.All the coparceners together make but one heir, and have but on...

7784

Coparceny

Co‐par″ce‐ny (?), n. [Abbrev. of Coparcenary.] (Law) An equal share of an inheritance.

7785

Copart

Co‐part (?), v. t. [Cf. Compart] To share.For, of all miserias, I hold that chiefWretched to be, when none coparts our grief.Webster (1661).

7786

Copartment

Co‐part″ment (?), n. A compartment. T. Warton.

7787

Copartner

Co‐part″ner (?), n. One who is jointly concerned with one or more persons in business, etc.; a partner; an associate; a partaker; a sharer.the associates and copartners of our l...

7788

Copartnership

Co‐part″ner‐ship, n. 1. The state of being a copartner or of having a joint interest in any matter.2. A partnership or firm; as, A. and B. have this day formed a copartnership.

7789

Copartnery

Co‐part″ner‐y (?), n.; pl.Copartneries (�). the state of being copartners in any undertaking.

7790

Copatain

Cop″a‐tain (?), a. [Formed fr. cop, in imitation of captain. See Cop, Captain.] Having a high crown, or a point or peak at top.A copatain hat made on a Flemish block.Gascoigne.

7791

Copatriot

Co‐pa″tri‐ot (?), n. A joint patriot.

7792

Cope

Cope (kōp), n. [A doublet of cape. See Cape, Cap.] 1. A covering for the head. Johnson.2. Anything regarded as extended over the head, as the arch or concave of the sky, the roo...

7793

Cope (2)

Cope, v. i. To form a cope or arch; to bend or arch; to bow.Some bending down and coping toward the earth.Holland.

7794

Cope (3)

Cope, v. t.(Falconry) To pare the beak or talons of (a hawk). J. H. Walsh.

7795

Cope (4)

Cope, v. i. [imp. & p. p.Coped (kōpt); p. pr. & vb. n.Coping.] [OE. copen, coupen, to buy, bargain, prob. from D. koopen to buy, orig., to bargain. See Cheap.] 1. To exchange or...

7796

Cope (5)

Cope, v. t. 1. To bargain for; to buy.2. To make return for; to requite; to repay.three thousand ducats due unto the Jew,We freely cope your courteous pains withal.Shak.3. To ma...

7797

Cope-chisel

Cope″–chis′el (?), n. A narrow chisel adapted for cutting a groove. Knight.

7798

Copeck

Co″peck (?), n. [Russ. kopeika] A Russian copper coin. See Kopeck.

7799

Coped

Coped (?), a. Clad in a cope.

7800

Copelata

‖Cop′e‐la″ta (?), n. pl.(Zoöl.) See Larvalla.

7801

Copeman

Cope″man (?), n. [D. koopman, fr. koopen to buy. See Cope, v. i.Chapman.] A chapman; a dealer; a merchant.He would have sold his part of paradiseFor ready money, had he met a co...

7802

Copenhagen

Co′pen‐ha″gen (?), n. [From Copenhagen, Denmark.] 1. A sweetened hot drink of spirit and beaten eggs.2. A children's game in which one player is inclosed by a circle of others h...

7803

Copepod

Cop″e‐pod (?), a.(Zoöl.) Of or pertaining to the Copepoda. — n. One of the Copepoda.