Coot (kōt) noun [ Confer Dutch koet , W. cwtair ; cwta short, bodtailed + iar hen; confer cwtau to dock. Confer Cut .]
1. (Zoology) (a) A wading bird with lobate toes, of the genus Fulica . The common European or bald coot is F. atra (see under bald ); the American is F. Americana . (b) The surf duck or scoter. In the United States all the species of ( Œdemia are called coots. See Scoter . "As simple as a coot ." Halliwell.

2. A stupid fellow; a simpleton; as, a silly coot . [ Colloq.]

Cooter (-ẽr) noun (Zoology) (a) A fresh-water tortoise ( Pseudemus concinna ) of Florida. (b) The box tortoise.

Cootfoot (-fot`) noun (Zoology) The phalarope; -- so called because its toes are like the coot's.

Coothay (kō*thā") noun A striped satin made in India. McElrath.

Cop (kŏp) noun [ Anglo-Saxon cop ; confer German kopf head. Confer Cup , Cob .]
1. The top of a thing; the head; a crest. [ Obsolete]

Cop they used to call
The tops of many hills.
Drayton.

2. A conical or conical-ended mass of coiled thread, yarn, or roving, wound upon a spindle, etc.

3. A tube or quill upon which silk is wound.

4. (Mil. Arch.) Same as Merlon .

5. A policeman. [ Slang]

Cop waste , a kind of cotton waste, composed chiefly of remnants of cops from which the greater part of the yarn has been unwound.

Copaiba (?; 277), Co*pai"va noun [ Spanish & Portuguese , from Brazil. cupaúba .] (Medicine) A more or less viscid, yellowish liquid, the bitter oleoresin of several species of Copaifera , a genus of trees growing in South America and the West Indies. It is stimulant and diuretic, and is much used in affections of the mucous membranes; -- called also balsam of copaiba . [ Written also capivi .]

Copal (kō"p a l; 277), [ Spanish , from Mexican copalli , a generic name of resins. Clavigero .] A resinous substance flowing spontaneously from trees of Zanzibar, Madagascar, and South America ( Trachylobium Hornemannianum , T. verrucosum , and Hymenæa Courbaril ), and dug from earth where forests have stood in Africa; -- used chiefly in making varnishes. Ure.

Copalm noun The yellowish, fragrant balsam yielded by the sweet gum; also, the tree itself.

Coparcenary (ko*pär"se*na*rȳ) noun ; plural Coparcenaries (-rĭz). [ Prefix co- + parcenary ] (Law) Partnership in inheritance; joint heirship; joint right of succession to an inheritance.

Coparcener (-nẽr) noun [ Prefix 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 one estate among them.
Blackstone.

Coparceny noun [ Abbrev. of Coparcenary .] (Law) An equal share of an inheritance.

Copart transitive verb [ Confer Compart ] To share. [ Obsolete]

For, of all miserias, I hold that chief
Wretched to be, when none coparts our grief.
Webster (1661).

Copartment noun A compartment. [ Obsolete] T. Warton.

Copartner noun 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 loss.
Milton.

Copartnership noun
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 .

Copartnery noun ; plural Copartneries the state of being copartners in any undertaking. [ R.]

Copatain adjective [ Formed from cop , in imitation of captain . See Cop , Captain .] Having a high crown, or a point or peak at top. [ Obsolete]

A copatain hat made on a Flemish block.
Gascoigne.

Copatriot noun A joint patriot.

Cope (kōp) noun [ A doublet of cape . See Cape , Cap .]
1. A covering for the head. [ Obsolete] Johnson.

2. Anything regarded as extended over the head, as the arch or concave of the sky, the roof of a house, the arch over a door. "The starry cope of heaven." Milton.

3. An ecclesiastical vestment or cloak, semicircular in form, reaching from the shoulders nearly to the feet, and open in front except at the top, where it is united by a band or clasp. It is worn in processions and on some other occasions. Piers plowman.

A hundred and sixty priests all in their copes .
Bp. Burnet.

4. An ancient tribute due to the lord of the soil, out of the lead mines in Derbyshire, England.

5. (Founding) The top part of a flask or mold; the outer part of a loam mold. Knight. De Colange.

Cope intransitive verb To form a cope or arch; to bend or arch; to bow. [ Obsolete]

Some bending down and coping toward the earth.
Holland.

Cope transitive verb (Falconry) To pare the beak or talons of (a hawk). J. H. Walsh.

Cope intransitive verb [ imperfect & past participle Coped (kōpt); present participle & verbal noun Coping .] [ Middle English copen , coupen , to buy, bargain, probably from Dutch koopen to buy, orig., to bargain. See Cheap .]
1. To exchange or barter. [ Obsolete] Spenser.

2. To encounter; to meet; to have to do with.

Horatio, thou art e'en as just a man
As e'er my conversation coped withal.
Shak.

3. To enter into or maintain a hostile contest; to struggle; to combat; especially, to strive or contend on equal terms or with success; to match; to equal; -- usually followed by with .

Host coped with host, dire was the din of war.
Philips.

Their generals have not been able to cope with the troops of Athens.
Addison.

Cope transitive verb
1. To bargain for; to buy. [ Obsolete]

2. To make return for; to requite; to repay. [ Obsolete]

three thousand ducats due unto the Jew,
We freely cope your courteous pains withal.
Shak.

3. To match one's self against; to meet; to encounter.

I love to cope him in these sullen fits.
Shak.

They say he yesterday coped Hector in the battle, and struck him down.
Shak.

Cope-chisel noun A narrow chisel adapted for cutting a groove. Knight.

Copeck noun [ Russian kopeika ] A Russian copper coin. See Kopeck .

Coped adjective Clad in a cope.

Copelata noun plural [ New Latin , from Greek ... a rower.] (Zoology) See Larvalla .

Copeman noun [ Dutch koopman , from koopen to buy. See Cope , intransitive verb Chapman .] A chapman; a dealer; a merchant. [ Obsolete]

He would have sold his part of paradise
For ready money, had he met a copeman .
B. Jonson.

Copenhagen noun [ 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 holding a rope.

Copepod adjective (Zoology) Of or pertaining to the Copepoda. -- noun One of the Copepoda.

Copepoda noun plural [ New Latin , from Greek ... an oar + -poda .] (Zoology) An order of Entomostraca, including many minute Crustacea, both fresh-water and marine.

» They have a distinct carapace. The eggs are carried in a pair of external pouches. Some are parasites of fishes.

Copernican adjective Pertaining to Copernicus, a Prussian by birth ( b. 1473, d. 1543), who taught the world the solar system now received, called the Copernican system.

Copesmate noun An associate or companion; a friend; a partner. [ Obsolete]

Misshapen time, copesmate of ugly Night.
Shak.

Copestone noun (Architecture) A stone for coping. See Coping .

Copier noun [ From. Copy .]
1. One who copies; one who writes or transcribes from an original; a transcriber.

2. An imitator; one who imitates an example; hence, a plagiarist.

Coping noun [ See Cope , noun ] (Architecture) The highest or covering course of masonry in a wall, often with sloping edges to carry off water; -- sometimes called capping . Gwill.

Copious adjective [ Latin copiosus , from copia abundance: confer French copieux . See Copy , Opulent .] Large in quantity or amount; plentiful; abundant; fruitful.

Kindly pours its copious treasures forth.
Thomson.

Hail, Son of God, Savior of men! thy name
Shall be the copious matter of my song.
Milton.

Syn. -- Ample; abundant; plentiful; plenteous; rich; full; exuberant; overflowing; full. See Ample .

Copiously adverb In a copious manner.

Copiousness noun The state or quality of being copious; abudance; plenty; also, diffuseness in style.

To imitatethe copiousness of Homer.
Dryden.

Syn. -- Abudance; plenty; richness; exuberance.

Coöptate transitive verb [ Latin coöptatus , past participle of coötare to elect to something; co- + optare to choose.] To choose; to elect; to coöpt. [ Obsolete] Cockeram.

Coöptation noun [ Latin coöptatio .] The act of choosing; selection; choice. [ Obsolete]

The first election and coöptation of a friend.
Howell.

Coördain transitive verb To ordain or appoint for some purpose along with another.

Coördinance noun Joint ordinance.

Coördinate adjective [ Prefix co- + Latin ordinatus , past participle of ordinare to regulate. See Ordain .] Equal in rank or order; not subordinate.

Whether there was one Supreme Governor of the world, or many coördinate powers presiding over each country.
Law.

Conjunctions joint sentences and coördinate terms.
Rev. R. Morris.

Coördinate adjectives , adjectives disconnected as regards one another, but referring equally to the same subject. -- Coördinate conjunctions , conjunctions joining independent propositions. Rev. R. Morris.

Coördinate (-nāt) transitive verb [ imperfect & past participle Coördinated ; present participle & verbal noun Coördinating .]
1. To make coördinate; to put in the same order or rank; as, to coördinate ideas in classification.

2. To give a common action, movement, or condition to; to regulate and combine so as to produce harmonious action; to adjust; to harmonize; as, to coördinate muscular movements.

Coördinate noun
1. A thing of the same rank with another thing; one two or more persons or things of equal rank, authority, or importance.

It has neither coördinate nor analogon; it is absolutely one.
Coleridge.

2. plural (Math.) Lines, or other elements of reference, by means of which the position of any point, as of a curve, is defined with respect to certain fixed lines, or planes, called coördinate axes and coördinate planes . See Abscissa . » Coördinates are of several kinds, consisting in some of the different cases, of the following elements, namely: (a) (Geom. of Two Dimensions) The abscissa and ordinate of any point, taken together; as the abscissa PY and ordinate PX of the point P (Fig. 2, referred to the coördinate axes AY and AX. (b) Any radius vector PA (Fig. 1), together with its angle of inclination to a fixed line, APX, by which any point A in the same plane is referred to that fixed line, and a fixed point in it, called the pole , P. (c) (Geom. of Three Dimensions) Any three lines, or distances, PB, PC, PD (Fig. 3), taken parallel to three coördinate axes, AX, AY, AZ, and measured from the corresponding coördinate fixed planes, YAZ, XAZ, XAY, to any point in space, P, whose position is thereby determined with respect to these planes and axes. (d) A radius vector, the angle which it makes with a fixed plane, and the angle which its projection on the plane makes with a fixed line line in the plane, by which means any point in space at the free extremity of the radius vector is referred to that fixed plane and fixed line, and a fixed point in that line, the pole of the radius vector.

Cartesian coördinates . See under Cartesian . -- Geographical coördinates , the latitude and longitude of a place, by which its relative situation on the globe is known. The height of the above the sea level constitutes a third coördinate. -- Polar coördinates , coördinates made up of a radius vector and its angle of inclination to another line, or a line and plane; as those defined in (b) and (d) above. -- Rectangular coördinates , coördinates the axes of which intersect at right angles. -- Rectilinear coördinates , coördinates made up of right lines. Those defined in (a) and (c) above are called also Cartesian coördinates . -- Trigonometrical or Spherical coördinates , elements of reference, by means of which the position of a point on the surface of a sphere may be determined with respect to two great circles of the sphere. -- Trilinear coördinates , coördinates of a point in a plane, consisting of the three ratios which the three distances of the point from three fixed lines have one to another.

Coördinately adverb In a coördinate manner.

Coördinateness noun The state of being coördinate; equality of rank or authority.

Coördination noun
1. The act of coördinating; the act of putting in the same order, class, rank, dignity, etc.; as, the coördination of the executive, the legislative, and the judicial authority in forming a government; the act of regulating and combining so as to produce harmonious results; harmonious adjustment; as, a coördination of functions. " Coördination of muscular movement by the cerebellum." Carpenter.

2. The state of being coördinate, or of equal rank, dignity, power, etc.

In this high court of parliament, there is a rare coördination of power.
Howell.

Coördinative adjective (Gram.) Expressing coördination. J. W. Gibbs.