COPPER-WORK
COPPER-WORK, noun A place where copper is wrought or manufactured.
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COPPER-WORM
COPPER-WORM, noun A little worm in ships; a worm that frets garments; a worm that breeds in ones hand.
COPPERAS
COPPERAS, noun Sulphate of iron, or green vitriol; a salt of a peculiar astringent taste, and of various colors, green, gray, yellowish, or whitish, but more usually green. It i...
COPPERED
COPPERED, participle passive Covered with sheets of copper; sheathed.
COPPERISH
COPPERISH, adjective Containing copper; like copper or partaking of it.
COPPERY
COPPERY, adjective Mixed with copper; containing copper, or made of copper; like copper in taste or smell.
COPPICE
COPPICE, COPSE, noun A wood of small growth, or consisting of underwood or brushwood; a wood cut at certain times for fuel.The rate of coppice lands will fall on the discovery o...
COPPIOUSLY
COPPIOUSLY, adverb1. Abundantly; plentifully; in large quantities.2. Largely; fully; amply; diffusely.The remains of antiquity have been copiously described by travelers.
COPPLE-DUST
COPPLE-DUST, noun Powder used in purifying metals.
COPPLE-STONES
COPPLE-STONES, noun Lumps and fragments of stone broke from the adjacent cliffs, rounded by being bowled and tumbled to and again by the action of water. In New England, we pron...
COPPLED
COPPLED, adjective [from cop.] Rising to a point; conical.
COPSE
COPSE, noun [See Coppice.]COPSE, verb transitive To preserve underwoods.
COPSY
COPSY, adjective Having copses.
COPTIC
COPTIC, adjective Pertaining to the descendants of the ancient Egyptians, called Copts, or cophti, as distinct from the Arabians and other inhabitants of modern Egypt. The name ...
COPULA
COPULA, noun [Latin See Copulation and Couple.] In logic, the word which unties the subject and predicate of a proposition. Religion is indispensable to happiness. Here is is th...
COPULATE
COPULATE, adjective Joined. [Little used.]COPULATE, verb transitive [Latin] To unite; to join in pairs. [Little used.]COPULATE, verb intransitive To unite in sexual embrace; app...
COPULATION
COPULATION, noun [Latin] The act of coupling; the embrace of the sexes in the act of generation; coition.
COPULATIVE
COPULATIVE, adjective That unites or couples. In grammar, the copulative conjunction connects two or more subjects or predicates, in an affirmative or negative proposition; as, ...
COPY
COPY, noun [See Cope and Cuff.] Literally, a likeness, or resemblance of any kind. Hence,1. A writing like another writing; a transcript from an original; or a book printed acco...
COPYBOOK
COPYBOOK, noun A book in which copies are written or printed for learners to imitate.
COPYED
COPYED, participle passive Transcribed; imitated; usually written copied.
COPYER
COPYER, noun One who copies or transcribes; usually written copier.
COPYHOLD
COPYHOLD, noun In England, a tenure of estate by copy of court roll; or a tenure for which the tenant hath nothing to show, except the rolls made by the steward of the lords court.
COPYHOLDER
COPYHOLDER, noun One who is possessed of land in copyhold.
COPYIST
COPYIST, noun A copier; a transcriber.
COPYRIGHT
COPYRIGHT, noun The sole right which an author has in his own original literary compositions; the exclusive right of an author to print, publish and vend his own literary works,...
COQUALLIN
COQUALLIN, noun A small quadruped of the squirrel kind, but incapable of climbing trees.