Cop-rose noun [ French coprose , of uncertain origin; confer Dutch klaproos , klapperroos .] The red, or corn, poppy. [ Written also cup-rose .]

Copist noun [ French copiste . See Copy .] A copier. [ Obsolete] "A copist after nature." Shaftesbury.

Coplanar (ko*plān"ẽr) adjective [ Prefix co- + plane .] (Math.) Situated in one plane.

Copland noun [ Cop + land .] A piece of ground terminating in a point or acute angle. [ Obsolete]

Coportion noun Equal share. [ Obsolete]

Myself will bear . . . coportion of your pack.
Spenser.

Copped adjective [ From Cop .] Rising to a point or head; conical; pointed; crested. Wiseman.

Coppel noun & v. See Cupel .

Copper noun [ Middle English coper (cf. Dutch koper , Swedish koppar , Danish kobber , German kupfer ), Late Latin cuper , from Latin cuprum for earlier Cyprium , Cyprium aes , i.e., Cyprian brass, from Greek ... of Cyprus (Gr. ...), anciently renowned for its copper mines. Confer Cypreous .]
1. A common metal of a reddish color, both ductile and malleable, and very tenacious. It is one of the best conductors of heat and electricity. Symbol Cu. Atomic weight 63.3. It is one of the most useful metals in itself, and also in its alloys, brass and bronze.

» Copper is the only metal which occurs native abundantly in large masses; it is found also in various ores, of which the most important are chalcopyrite, chalcocite, cuprite, and malachite. Copper mixed with tin forms bell metal; with a smaller proportion, bronze; and with zinc, it forms brass, pinchbeck, and other alloys.

2. A coin made of copper; a penny, cent, or other minor coin of copper. [ Colloq.]

My friends filled my pockets with coppers .
Franklin.

3. A vessel, especially a large boiler, made of copper.

4. plural Specifically (Nautical) , the boilers in the galley for cooking; as, a ship's coppers .

» Copper is often used adjectively, commonly in the sense of made or consisting of copper , or resembling copper ; as, a copper boiler, tube, etc.

All in a hot and copper sky.
Coleridge.

It is sometimes written in combination; as, copper plate, copper smith, copper - colored.

Copper finch . (Zoology) See Chaffinch . -- Copper glance , or Vitreous copper . (Min.) See Chalcocite . -- Indigo copper . (Min.) See Covelline .

Copper transitive verb [ imperfect & past participle Coppered ; present participle & verbal noun Coppering .] To cover or coat with copper; to sheathe with sheets of copper; as, to copper a ship.

Copper works A place where copper is wrought or manufactured. Woodward.

Copper-bottomed adjective Having a bottom made of copper, as a tin boiler or other vessel, or sheathed with copper, as a ship.

Copper-faced adjective Faced or covered with copper; as, copper-faced type.

Copper-fastened adjective Fastened with copper bolts, as the planks of ships, etc.; as, a copper-fastened ship.

Copper-nickel noun (Min.) Niccolite.

Copper-nose noun A red nose. Shak.

Copperas noun [ Middle English coperose , French couperose , from (assumed?) Latin cuprirosa , equiv. to German cha`lkanqos , i. e. copper flower, vitriol. See Copper and Rose. ] Green vitriol, or sulphate of iron; a green crystalline substance, of an astringent taste, used in making ink, in dyeing black, as a tonic in medicine, etc. It is made on a large scale by the oxidation of iron pyrites. Called also ferrous sulphate .

» The term copperas was formerly synonymous with vitriol , and included the green, blue, and white vitriols, or the sulphates of iron, copper, and zinc.

Copperhead noun [ From its color.]
1. (Zoology) A poisonous American serpent ( Ancistrodon conotortrix ), closely allied to the rattlesnake, but without rattles; -- called also copper-belly , and red viper .

2. A nickname applied to a person in the Northern States who sympathized with the South during the Civil War. [ U.S.]

Coppering noun
1. The act of covering with copper.

2. An envelope or covering of copper.

Copperish adjective Containing, or partaking of the nature of, copper; like copper; as, a copperish taste.

Copperplate (kŏp"pẽr*plāt`) noun (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 a copper- or steel plate the lines are filled with ink, the surface of the plate is wiped clean, the paper laid upon it, and the impression taken by pressing it under the roller of a plate press.

Copperplate press . See Plate press , under Plate .

Coppersmith (-smĭth`) noun One whose occupation is to manufacture copper utensils; a worker in copper.

Copperworm noun (Zoology) (a) The teredo; -- so called because it injures the bottoms of vessels, where not protected by copper. (b) The ringworm.

Coppery adjective Mixed with copper; containing copper, or made of copper; like copper.

Coppice (kŏp"pĭs) noun [ Old French copeiz , from coper , couper , to cut, French couper , from cop , coup , colp , a blow, French coup , Latin colaphus , from Greek ko`lafos . Confer Copse , and confer Coupé , Coupee .] A grove of small growth; a thicket of brushwood; a wood cut at certain times for fuel or other purposes. See Copse .

The rate of coppice lands will fall, upon the discovery of coal mines.
Locke.

Coppice (kŏp"pĭs) transitive verb [ imperfect & past participle Coppiced (-pĭst); present participle & verbal noun Coppicing .] (Forestry) To cause to grow in the form of a coppice; to cut back (as young timber) so as to produce shoots from stools or roots.

Coppin noun [ See Cop .] A cop of thread.

Copple noun [ 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.

Copple dust Cupel dust. [ Obsolete]

Powder of steel, or copple dust .
Bacon.

Copple-crown noun A created or high-topped crown or head. "Like the copple- crown the lapwing has." T. Randolph.

-- Cop"ple-crowned` adjective

Coppled adjective [ From Copple .] Rising to a point; conical; copped. [ Obsolete] Woodward.

Copplestone noun A cobblestone. [ Obsolete]

Copps noun See Copse . [ Obsolete]

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

Coprolite noun [ Greek ko`pros dung + -lite .] (Paleon.) A piece of petrified dung; a fossil excrement.

Coprolitic adjective Containing, pertaining to, or of the nature of, coprolites.

Coprophagan noun [ See Coprophagous .] (Zoology) A kind of beetle which feeds upon dung.

Coprophagous adjective [ Greek ... exrement + ... to eat.] (Zoology) Feeding upon dung, as certain insects.

Cops noun [ Anglo-Saxon cops , cosp , fetter.] The connecting crook of a harrow. [ Prov. Eng.]

Copse noun [ Contr. from coppice .] A wood of small growth; a thicket of brushwood. See Coppice .

Near yonder copse where once the garden smiled.
Goldsmith.

Copse transitive verb
1. To trim or cut; -- said of small trees, brushwood, tufts of grass, etc. Halliwell.

2. To plant and preserve, as a copse. Swift.

Copsewood noun Brushwood; coppice. Macaulay.

Copsy adjective Characterized by copses. " Copsy villages." " Copsy banks." J. Dyer.

Coptic (kŏp"tĭk) adjective [ Abbrev. from Latin Aegyptius an Egyptian, Greek ..., Arabic kibtī , plural kibt .] Of or pertaining to the Copts. -- noun The language of the Copts.

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 Monophysitic doctrine which was condemned ( a.d. 451) by the council of Chalcedon, and allows its priests to marry. The "pope and patriarch" has jurisdiction over the Abyssinian Church. Since the 7th century the Coptic Church has been so isolated from modifying influences that in many respects it is the most ancient monument of primitive Christian rites and ceremonies. But centuries of subjection to Moslem rule have weakened and degraded it.

Copts (kŏpts") noun plural ; 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 and the valley of the Nile.

» they belong to the Jacobite sect of Monophysite Christians, and for eleven centuries have had possession of the patriarchal chair of Alexandria.

Copula noun [ Latin , 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 with the pedals; -- called also coupler .

Copulate adjective [ Latin copulatus , past participle of copulare to couple, from copula . See Copula .]
1. Joined; associated; coupled. [ Obsolete] Bacon.

2. (Gram.) Joining subject and predicate; copulative. F. A. March.

Copulate intransitive verb [ imperfect & past participle Copulated ; present participle & verbal noun Copulating .] To unite in sexual intercourse; to come together in the act of generation.

Copulation noun [ Latin copulatio : confer French copulation .]
1. The act of coupling or joining; union; conjunction.

Wit, you know, is the unexpected copulation of ideas.
Johnson.

2. The coming together of male and female in the act of generation; sexual union; coition.