coppersmith

[Eng. copper, and smith.] worker in copper; a maker of copper utensils. "Alexander the coppersmith did me much evil -2 Tim. iv. 14. cop'-per-wõrm, s. [Eng. copper, and worm. ] 1. A mollusk, Teredo naval is. [TEREDO.] 2. A moth that preys upon garments. 3. A worm breeding in one's hand. cõp'-për-ỹ, a. [Eng. copper; -y.] I. Ordinary Language : 1. Pertaining to or containing copper. " A IMG:content-0909.png:[blocks in formation] coppery particles brought with the water out of the neighboring copper-mines." Woodward: On Fo ils. 2. Made of copper. 3. Resembling copper in any of its qualities of color, taste, . "Their skin is of a dirty coppery red color."- Darwin: Voyage round the World (ed. 1870), ch. x., p. 205. ( Lindley .) II. Bot.: Brownish-red, with a metallic luster. cop-piçe, *co-pice, s. [O. Fr. copeiz , copeau = wood newly cut, coper to cut; Fr. couper ; Low Lat. copecia =underwood, copo to cut, colpus a blow, from Latin colaphus ; Gr. kolaphos = a blow. ( Skeat .)] A small wood composed of brushwood or other wood of short growth, and cut down periodically for fuel or other purposes; a thicket of brushwood. Copse , which is now the commoner form, is a corruption of coppice . [COPPY, COPSE.] "Each coppice dwarf of varied show." Scott : Rokeby , iv. 3. cop'-piçed, a. [Eng. coppic (e); -ed.] Containing coppices or copses. *cop-pil-ling, s. [Eng. coppel cupel , and suff. -ing . The act or proce of refining in a cupel. "In the cop pilling of a fixed metal."- Howell : Parley of Beasts , p. 148. *cop-pin, a . [Apparently from Mid. Eng. cop top.] Raised up. IMG:content-0910.png:[blocks in formation] Spinning: The copping-rail of a throstle-machine. copping-rail, s . The rail or bar upon which the bobbins rest in the bobbin-and-fly or the throstle machine, and by whose up and down motion the rooving or yarn is evenly distributed. ( Knight .) cop-pin-i-a, s . [Etym. doubtful. Cf. Gr. koppa =an obsolete letter of the Greek alphabet. It was like the Heb. koph and the Lat. q .] Zool.: A genus of Hydroid Polypes, the typical one of the family Coppin i i dae (q.v.). Coppin i a arcta , which is greenish-yellow, encrusts the stems of other zoophytes. ( Griffith & Henfrey . ) cop-pin-i-i-dæ, s . pl . [Mod. Lat. coppin i a , and suff. -idœ .] Zool.: A family of Hydroid Polypes, sub-order The caph or a. *cop-ple (1), 8. [CUPEL.]