cooper ant

& s. [Fr., pr. par. of coopérer =to work together, as if from a Lat. coopero: co = con = with, together, and opero = to work; opus = work.] A. As adj .: Operating or working together with; cooperating. "Bounded and conditioned by coöperant Reason,.." -Tyndall: Frag. of Science (3d ed.), vii. 130-1. B. As subst.: A cooperating agent; one who or that which cooperates with another for a common end. no cause thereof nor соöperant thereto."- Sir T. More: Works, p. 383.