copataint (kopatan)

[ a tall and somewhat conical crown, worn in the seventeenth century. It is the form of hat generally identified with wizards and witches. O fine villain! A silken doublet! a velvet hose! a scar let cloak! and a cop at a in hat ! Shak., T. of the S., v. 1. copatriot (ko-pā'tri-ot), n. [ patriot . Cf. compatriot .] Same as compatriot . copayva (ko-pā'vä), n . Same as copaiba . copel (kōp), n. [Formerly also coape ; cope , cap or * cape (in comp. cantel - capas , ME.can tel cape, canturcope , var. of cantercæppa , a priest's robe, a dalmatic), also (in glo es) cop (= Icel. kāpa = Sw. kåpa = Dan. kaabe , a cope), var. forms of cappe , cappe , a cape, all ult. (like ME. cape , cape , etc.) cappa , сара , а cape, cope: see capel and cap1 , of which copel is a doublet.] 1. A large outer garment; a cloak; a mantle. I kenne hym noght, but he [Judas] is cladde in a cope , He cares with a kene face vncomly to kys. York Plays , p. 228. The side robe or cope of homely and course clothe, soc he as the beggerie philosophiers and none els vsen to weare. Udall , tr. of Apophthegms of Erasmus, p. 47. IMG:content-1255.jpg:[blocks in formation] 3. In the University of Cambridge, England, the ermined robe worn by a doctor in the senate- house on Congregation day.-4. Anything spread or extended over the head, as the arch or concave of the sky, the roof or covering of a house, or the arch over a door; specifically, in arch ., a coping. Till the dark cope of night with kind embrace Befriends the rout, and covers their disgrace. Over them vast and high extended the cope of a cedar, Swinging from its great arms the trumpet-flower and the grape-vine. Long fellow , Evangeline, ii. 2. 5. In founding, same as case2 , 10. See cut under flask. copel (kōp), v .; pret. and pp. coped , ppr. coping . [ME. copen (in def. 2); from the noun.] I. trans. 1. To provide with a cope or cloak; cover with a cloak; cloak. Thenne com ther a confe our coped as a frere. Piers Plowman (C), iv. 38. 2. To cover as with a cope; furnish with a cop- ing. IMG:content-1256.png:[blocks in formation] IMG:content-1257.png:[blocks in formation] cope3 (kōp), v .; pret. and pp. coped , ppr. coping . [late ME. copen, prob. a var. of coupen (E. coup1; cf. сорes , the same word in a technical sense), strike, fight, appar. later a ociated with ME. copen , buy, pay for, bargain; the notion of 'strive, contend' easily arising from that of 'bargain, chaffer. See coup1 , cope 2.] I. in trans. To strive or contend on equal terms; meet in combat; oppose: often with a preced- ing negative or word of negative import, the verb then implying 'oppose with succe ': fol- lowed by with . I challenge all the Persian lords To cope with me in single fight. The small fishing ve els, which were all that the Eng- lish ports could provide, were unable to cope with the large war ve els now used by the Danes. J. R. Green, Conq. of Eng., p. 386. Two heads of evill he has to cope with , ignorance and malice. Milton , Church-Government, ii. 3. Host cop'd with host, dire was the din of war. Philips . II. trans. To meet in contest or contention; oppose; encounter. I love to cope him in these sullen fits. Shak., As you Like it, ii. 1. Horatio, thou art e'en as just a man As e'er my conversation cop'd withal. IMG:content-1258.png:[blocks in formation] copes (kop), (kop), ōp), v . t.; pret. and pp. co coped, ppr. cop- ing . [Var. of coup1 , q. v.] In falconry , to cut, as the beak or talons of a hawk. Encyc . Brit . copeck, kopeck (kō'pek), n. [Also written co- peek ; = F. copeck = G. kopeke , etc., repr. Ru . kopiečka , a , also spelled kopečka , a copeck, kopati (=OBulg. kopati , etc.), cut, grave, dig.] Ade- nomination of Ru ian silver and copper coins. IMG:content-1259.png:[merged small][merged small][merged small][ocr errors][merged small] Copeck of Emperor Nicholas, in the British Museum. (Size of the original.) The coins of this name current since 1855 are: in silver, the 25-copeck piece, and pieces of 20, 15, and 5 copecks; [NL., pl. of copelata (or, in form Copelata , neut. pl., accom. to -ata2 ), κωπηλάτης , α rower (κωπηλάτης πολύπους, the nautilus: see polyp ), haft , q. v.), + ἐλά- της , a driver, ἐλαύνειν (έλα-), drive.] A prime division of ascidians or tun i caries, distinguish- ing the tailed ascidians or Appendiculariidæ from the ordinary sea-squirts or Acopa . copelate (ko'pē-lat), a . [ Copelata , accom. to adjectives in -atel .] Of or pertaining to the Copelatæ. copemant (kōp'man), n . [ koopman = E. chapman : see chapman , chap4 .] A chapman; He would have sold his part of Paradise For ready money, had he met a cope - man . II. n. One of the Copepod a . Also copepod an . IMG:content-1260.png:[graphic] copepod-stage (ko'pe-pod-stāj), n. In zoöl . , a stage in the development of some of the stalk-eyed crusta- ceans, as a prawn, when the larva (a zoëa) resembles an adult copepod. In this stage [of Peneus ], which an- swers to the so-called Zoea-form of other Pod ophthalmia, the principal locomotive organs are the antennæ and antennules, and the resemblance to an adult copepod is so striking that it may be termed the copepod- stage. Huxley , Anat. Invert., p. 301. coper1t, n. An obsolete spell- ing of copper . coper2+ (kō' pėr), n. [ Pe- IMG:content-1261.jpg:[blocks in formation] A miner: so called from his working at a certain price price or cope per ton or load of ore mined. Farey. [North. Eng.] Copernican (kō-pèr -pernini ai-kan), - kạn), a . and n. I. a. Pertaining to Copernicus (originally Kopper- IMG:content-1262.jpg:[ocr errors] Ne ever stayd in place, ne spake to wight, Till that the Foxe, his copes mate , he had found. Spenser, Mother Hub. Tale. Mi hapen Time, copes mate of ugly Night. Shak., Lucrece, 1. 925. If I should use extremity with her I might hang her, and her copes mate my drudge here. Chapman , All Fools, iv. 1. cophosis (kō-fō'sis), n. [NL., κωφᾶν , deafen, κωφός , deaf.] In pa- thol ., diminution or lo of hearing; deafne . cop house (kop'hous), n. [Formerly coppehouse ; cop (origin unknown) + house.] In manuf., a receptacle for tools. Weale. Copht (koft), n. Same as Copt2 . Cophyla (kof'i-lä), n. [NL., κωφός , dumb, dull, deaf, + NL. Hyla , q. v.] A genus of tail le amphibians, typical of the family Cophy- cophylid (kof'i-lid), n. A toad-like amphibian of the family Cophylida . copiapite (ko'pi-a-pīt), n. [ Copiapo , in Chili, + -ite2 .] A hydrous iron sulphate, occurring in crystalline scales of a sulphur-yellow color. Also called yellow copperas and misy . copia verborum (kop i-ä ver-bo'rum). [L.: copia ; abundance; verborum , gen. pl. of verbum , a word: see copy , n., and verb .] An abundance of words; a rich or full vocabulary. copiet, n. An obsolete form of copy . copier (kop'i-ér), n. [Formerly also copyer ; v . t., + -er1.] 1. One who copies; one who writes or transcribes from an original or form; a transcriber. The tender heart is animated peace, And... pours its copious treasures forth In various converse. Thomson , Spring, 1. 942. IMG:content-1263.png:[blocks in formation] copped , pointed, crested, copped , found only in privative sense, having the top cut off, polled, as a tree, but also prob. crested (= OS. coppod (in a glo ), crested), cop ( copp- ), cop, top, + -ed : see cop1 and -ed2.] 1. Pointed; crested; rising to a point or head; conical. With high copt hattes and fethers flaunt a flaunt. Gas coigne, Steele Glas (ed. Arber), p. 83. Hakluyt's Voyages , I. 327. IMG:content-1264.png:[blocks in formation] sooner than your own Tongue. Wycherley, Plain Dealer, iii. The boy being made to drink copiously of tar-water, this Weale . prevented or le ened the fever. plenty; great quantity; full supply. elegance of diction or copiousne of narrative, who have 2. Diffusene of style or manner in writing or speaking, or superabundance of matter. With what a fluency of invention, and copiousne of ex- pre ion, will they enlarge upon every little slip in the be- haviour of another! Add is on, Lady Orators. Percival got nothing from Shelley but the fatal copious ne which is his vice. Lowell, Study Windows, p. 182. = Syn. 1. Exuberance, richne , profusion. copistt (kop'ist), n. [=D. kopist = G. copist = Dan. kopist , F.copiste (= Sp. Pg. It. copista ), copier , copy: see copy , v . Cf. copyist .] A cop i- er; a copyist. A copist after nature. Shaftesbury , Advice to an Author, iii. § 3. coplanar (kō-plā'när), a . [ plane + -ar2.] Lying in one plane. cop lan at i on (kō-plā-nā'shọn), n. [ coppel (kop'el), n. Same as cupel . coppe-melt, adv . An obsolete form of cup - meal . copper (kop'er), n. and a. [Early mod. E. coper , ME.coper , coper , cop or = D. koper = MLG. LG . kopper = OHG. chupfar , MHG. G. kupfer = Icel. koparr = Sw. koppar = Dan. kobber = F. cuivre Sp. Pg. cobre (› Ar. qobros ), cuper , LL. cuprum , copper, contr. of L. cyprium , сор- per, usually Cyprium æs , i. e., Cyprian bra , Κύπριος , Cyprian, Κύπρος , Cyprus, an island in the Mediterranean, whence the Romans got their best copper: see Cyprian . The It. word is rame = Wall. arame = Sp. arambre , alambre = Pg.arame = Pr. aram = F. airain , prop. yellow copper, bra , æramen , copper, bronze, as ( ær- ), copper, bronze: see as . The Gr. name was χαλκός : see chalcitis , etc.] I. n. 1. Chemi- cal symbol, Cu; atomic weight, 63.3. A metal distinguished from all others by its peculiar red color. Its crystalline form is that of the cube or regular octahedron (isometric). Its specific gravity is nearly nine times that of water (8.838 native copper, 8.958 electrotype copper). Among the metals in common use, it stands next to gold and silver in malleability and ductility, and next to iron and steel in tenacity. Its melting-point is a little below that of gold and considerably above that of silver. Copper is one of the most widely diffused metals, and occurs in the native state, as well as in a great variety of sulphureted and oxidized combinations. Native copper is not unfrequently met with in the superficial portions of cupriferous lodes, but usually only in small amount. In two regions, however, this metal is mined exclusively in the native state: namely, the south shore of Lake Superior, plane + -ation .] In math ., the proce of find and Corocoro in Bolivia; but of the two the former is by ing a plane area equal to a given curved surface. copland (kop'land), n. [ cop1 + land .] A piece of ground terminating in a cop or acute angle. coplantt (kō-plant'), v. t. [ plant1 .] To plant together or at the same time. copolar (kō-pō'lär), a. [ co -1 + pole2 + -ar2 .] Having the same pole. - Copolar triangles, two or more triangles, ABC, A'B'C', A"B"C", such that correspond ing vertices, as A, A', A", lie in one straight line, and all three such lines, AA', BB, CC, meet in one point. It is a theorem that coplanar triangles are also coaxial. Coponautæ (kō-pō-na'tē), n. pl . [NL., nauta , a sailor.] The pteropods: a synonym of Pteropod a . Copopoda (ko-pop'ō-da), n . pl . [NL.: see Co- pepoda.] Same as Copepod a . copopsia (ko-pop'si-ä), n. [NL., appar. κόπος , toil, wearine , + όψις , sight; otherwise for * cophopsia , κωφός , dull, esp. of the senses, deaf, dumb, dim-sighted, + όψις , sight.] In pathol . , weakne or fatigue of sight. coportiont (ko-por's hon), n. [ co -1 + portion .] An equal share. forms, either by itself, or tinned in order to prevent corro- sion by acid liquids. The electrotyping proce depends on the deposition by the galvanic current of pure copper My selfe will beare a part, coportion of your packe. from a solution of one of its salts, the metal deposited Spenser, F. Q., VI. ii. 47. forming an exact reproduction in copper of an object sus- copos (kop'os), n. [NL., κόπος , a striking, beat- ing, toil, wearine , fatigue, κόπτειν (ν * κοπ), strike.] In pathol . , a morbid la itude. copotaint, a. Same as cop at a in . Fairholt ; Planché. co-poursuivant (kō-pör-swe-von'), n. [F., fing much used as an insecticide, principally for the Colo- suivant.] In French law , a co-plaintiff. coppelt, n. An obsolete form of cop1 . coppert, n. A Middle English form of cор2 . coppe3t, n. coppé (ko-pā'), a . [AF., appar. pp. of coper , couper , cut, appar. a imilated to E., as if Milton , P. L., iii. 413. cop ( ME.coppe ) + -é; equiv. to E. copped .] In Hail, Son of God! Saviour of men! Thy name Shall be the copious matter of my song. IMG:content-1265.jpg:[blocks in formation] II. a. Consisting of or resembling copper. I have heard the prince tell him that that ring was Shak ., 1 Hen. IV., iii. 3. copper . I had as lief Helen's golden tongue had commended Troilus for a copper nose. Shak., T. and C., i. 2. Right up above the mast did stand, No bigger than the moon. Copper bit or bolt. See bit1 . - Copper butterflies. See butterfly . (kop'er), v. t. [ copper , n.] 1. Copper per shop pepper: as, to cop per a ship.-2. In faro , to place a copper (cent) or other token upon (a card), to indicate that the player wishes to bet against that card; bet against: as, to copper a card; to copper a bet. copperah (kop'e-rä), n. Same as copra . name of a common harmle serpent of the colite . United States, the Coluber or Trop i do not us or copper nose (kop'er-noz), n. The copper-nosed Nerodia erythrogaster , having a uniformly cop- per-colored belly. Baird and Girard. copper-bit (kop'er-bit), n. A soldering-iron having a copper point. copper-bottomed (kop'er-bot"umd), a. Hav- ing the bottom sheathed with copper, as a copper-captain (kop'er-kaptan), n. One who calls himself a captain without any right to the To this copper captain was confided the command of the troops. Irving , Knickerbocker, p. 314. IMG:content-1266.png:[blocks in formation] copper-colored (kop'er-kul"ord), Of a cop- per color: applied especially to the American engraving. Indians, from the color of their skin. copper-faced (kop'er-fast), a . Faced with copper.- Copper-faced type, a printing-type the face of which is protected by a thin film of copper deposited upon it by means of the galvanic battery, to increase its durability. copper-fastened (kop'er-fas"nd), a . Fastened with copper instead of iron or steel bolts, as the planking of a ship. copper-glance (kop'er-glans), n. Same as chal- cocite. copperhead (kop'er-hed), n. [ copper + head ; so called from the bright-reddish color of its head.] 1. A common venomous serpent of the United States, Trigonocephalus or An cist rod on con tortrix. It is of rather small size, generally under two feet in length, and of a dull pale-chestnut or hazel color with numerous (15-25) inverted, Y-shaped, dark blotches. The ground color is brighter-reddish on the head, the sides of which present a cream-colored streak. It be- longs to the same genus as the water-moccasin ( T. piscivo- but is not aquatic. Unlike the rattlesnake, the cop- perhead has the habit of striking without previous move- ment or warning, whence its name is a synonym of hidden danger or secret hostility. Also called copper bell and red viper . Hence-2. During the civil war in the United States, a northern sympathizer with the rebel- lion: so called by the Unionists. IMG:content-1267.jpg:[graphic] thing in their power to render it [the draft] inoperative. coppi, n. Plural of coppo . 3t. A term of ridicule or contempt applied to coppice, copse (kopiskops), E. dialectory the early Dutch colonists of New York. The Yankees sneeringly spoke of the round-crowned burghers of the Manhattoes as the Copperheads . copperhead ism (kop'er-hed-izm), n. [ copper- head , 2, + -ism .] In the period of the civil war the rebellion. in the United States, northern sympathy with There is the contest within the party between its best and its worst elements, the representatives of a new era and of a future, and the exponents of the copperhead ism of the war and the traditions and i ues of the past. copperas (kop'e-ras), n . [Formerly copras , copres, coppre e , coperose , coupe- rose, F. coupe rose = Sp. caparrosa , capparós , formerly with the Ar. art., alcaparrosa , = Pg. caparrosa , capparosa = It. copparosa , porosa , cuperosa , cuprosa , a corruption of * cupri rosa (> MD. koper - roose ), lit. rose of copper: cu- pri , gen. of LL. cuprum , copper; L. rosa , rose (i. e., 'flower' in chem. application): see cop- per and rose. Cf. MLG. kopperrok = MHG. G. kupferrauch = OSw. koparröker , Sw. kopparrök , copperas, lit. 'copper-vapor': see reek . Cf. Gr. χάλκανθος, copperas, lit. 'copper-flower.'] Green vitriol, the sulphate of iron, or ferrous sulphate, FeSO4.7H2O, a salt of a peculiar astringent taste and of various colors, green, gray, yellow- ish, or whitish, but more usually green. It is much used in dyeing black, in making ink, in medicine as with some preparation containing copper. a tonic, in photography as a developing agent, etc. Dis- coppering (kop'er-ing), n. [Verbal n. of cop- per, v.] 1. The act of covering or sheathing with copper, as the bottom of a ship.-2. The sheathing itself: as, the coppering of a ship's bottom.-3. In gambling , the act of wagering that a certain card will lose. copperish (kop'ér-ish), a. [ copper + -ish1 .] Containing copper; like or partaking of copper. copper i zati on (kop"ėr-i-zā shon), n . [ copper- ize + -ation.] Impregnation with copper, or copperize (kop'er-iz), v. t.; pret. and pp. copper- pregnate with copper, or with some preparation a ppr.copper i zing . [ copper + -ize .] of commerce is usually made by the decomposition of iron pyrites. The term copperas ras was formerly synonymous with vitriol , and included the green, blue, and white vitriols, or the sulphates of iron, copper, and zinc. - Blue copperas. Same as blue - stone , 1. -Copperas-black. See black . - White copperas. See containing copper.- Copper i zed ammonia, am- monia holding in solution copper hydrate. It is used as a solvent for paper, cotton, and other forms of cellulose, copiapite . Near yonder copse where once the garden smiled. Goldsmith, Des. Vil., 1. 137. The sweet myrtle here often attains the height of fifteen or twenty feet, and forms an almost impenetrable coppice , burthening the air with its fragrance. Poe , Tales, I. 53. When first the liquid note beloved of men Comes flying over many a windy wave To Britain, and in April suddenly Breaks from a coppice gemm'd with green and red. Tennyson, Geraint. coppice (kop'is), v. t. Same as copse . coppilt, v . t . See cupel . coppin (kop'in), n. [Prob. for * copping , verbal n. of * cop1 , v .].] Same as cop1 , 8. copping-plate (kop'ing-plāt), n. The copping- throstle-machine. E. H. Knight. copping-rail (kop'ing-rāl), n. In spinning- mach., the rail or bar on which the bobbin rests, and by which the roving or yarn is evenly Coppin i a