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An American Dictionary of the English Language

by Noah Webster

Revised and enlarged (Goodrich & Porter)

Springfield, Mass. · G. & C. Merriam · 1865

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  1. Co-plānt', v. t.p. 292To plant with something else, or at the same time. [Obs.] Howell.
  2. Co-pōr'tion, n.p. 292Equal share. [Obs.] Spenser.
  3. Cō'tos, n.p. 292(Med.) Weariness resulting from disease; a morbid lassitude.
  4. Cŏpped, a.p. 292Rising to a point or head. “Copped like a sugar-loaf.” Wiseman.
  5. Cōp'pel, n.p. 292The same as CUPEL.
  6. Cŏp'per, n.p. 292A metal of a reddish color, ductile, malleable, and tenacious. It is among the most elastic and sonorous of the metals. It fuses at 2000° of Fahrenheit, and has a specific gravity varying from 8.8 to…
  7. Cŏp'per, a.p. 292Consisting of, or resembling, copper. “A hot and copper sky.” Coleridge.
  8. Cŏp'per, v. t.p. 292To cover or sheathe with sheets of copper; as, to copper a ship.
  9. Cŏp'per-as, n.p. 292Sulphate of iron, or green vitriol; a salt of a green color, and styptic, astringent taste. ☞ It is much used in dyeing black, and in making ink, and in medicine as a tonic. The copperas of commerce…
  10. Cŏp'per-bŏt'tomed, a.p. 292Having a bottom sheathed with copper, as a ship.
  11. Cōp'per-fāced, a.p. 292Faced or covered with copper; as, copper-faced type.
  12. Cŏp'per-făst'ened, a.p. 292Fastened with copper bolts, as the planks of ships, &c.
  13. Cŏp'per-hēad, n.p. 292(Herp.) A poisonous American serpent, the Trigonocephalus contortrix; — called also copper-bell and red viper.
  14. Cŏp'per-ing, n.p. 292The act of covering with copper. 2. An envelope or covering of copper; as, the coppering of a ship's bottom.
  15. Cōp'per-ish, a.p. 292Containing copper; like copper, or partaking of it.
  16. Cŏp'per-nĭck'el, n.p. 292(Min.) A mineral consisting principally of arsenic and copper; arsenuret of nickel.
  17. Cŏp'per-nōse, n.p. 292A red nose. Shak.
  18. Cŏp'per-plāte, n.p. 292A plate of polished copper on which an engraving has been made with a graver, or otherwise. 2. A print or impression taken from a copper-plate.
  19. Cŏp'per-smĭth, n.p. 292One whose occupation is to manufacture copper utensils.
  20. Cŏp'per-works, n. pl.p. 292A place where copper is wrought or manufactured. Woodward.
  21. Cŏp'per-worm, n.p. 292A small worm, the Teredo navalis, which penetrates the bottoms of ships; also, sometimes, the ring-worm.
  22. Cŏp'per-y, a.p. 292Mixed with copper; containing copper, or made of copper; like copper.
  23. Cōp'pice, n.p. 292A wood of small growth, or consisting of underwood or brushwood; a wood cut at certain times for fuel or other purposes. The rate of coppice lands will fall on the discovery of coal mines. Locke.
  24. Cōp'pin, n.p. 292The cone of thread wound upon a spindle in spinning.
  25. Cŏp'ple, n.p. 292Something rising in a conical shape; a hill rising to a point. [Obs.] “A low cape, and upon it a copple not very high.” Hackluyt.
  26. Cŏp'ple-crown, n.p. 292A tuft of feathers on the head of a fowl. “The copple-crown the lapwing has.”
  27. Cōp'pled, a.p. 292Rising to a point; conical. Woodward.
  28. Cōp'ple-dūst, n.p. 292Cupel-dust.
  29. Cŏb'ble-stōne, n.p. 292A lump or fragment of stone rounded by the action of water. See COBBLE-STONE.
  30. Cŏp'py-wōōds, n. pl.p. 292Woods for felling; coppice.
  31. Cōp'ro-līte, n.p. 292(Paleon.) Petrified dung of carnivorous reptiles. Buckland.
  32. Cōp'ro-līt'ic, a.p. 292Containing or resembling coprolites.
  33. Co-prōph'a-gan, n.p. 292(Entom.) A kind of beetle which lives in, or feeds upon, the dung of animals.
  34. Co-prōph'a-goūs, a.p. 292Feeding on excrements or other filth.
  35. Cōps, n.p. 292The connecting crook of a harrow.
  36. Cŏpse, n.p. 292A wood of small growth. See COPPICE. Near yonder copse where once the garden smiled. Goldsmith.
  37. Cōpse, v. t.p. 292To trim or cut;—said of brushwood, tufts of grass, &c. Halliwell.
  38. Cōp'sy, a.p. 292Having copses. “Copsy villages on either side.” Dyer.
  39. Cōpt, n.p. 292A descendant of an ancient Egyptian race, belonging to the Jacobite or Monophysite sect.
  40. Cōp'tic, a.p. 292Belonging or relating to the Copts.
  41. Cōp'tic, n.p. 292The language of the Copts.
  42. Cŏp'ŭ-lā, n.p. 292(Logic.) The word which unites the subject and predicate of a proposition. 2. (Mus.) The stop which connects the manuals, or the manuals with the pedals;—called also coupler. 3. (Anat.) A ligament.
  43. Cōp'ū-late, a.p. 292Joined. [Obs.] Bacon.
  44. Cōp'ū-lāte, v. t.p. 292To join in pairs; to unite; to couple; to pair. [Obs.] Bailey.
  45. Cōp'ū-lāte, v. i.p. 292To unite in sexual embrace.
  46. Cōp/u-lā'tion, n.p. 292The act of coupling; the embrace of the sexes in the act of generation; coition.
  47. Cōp'ū-la-tīve, a.p. 292Serving to couple, unite, or connect. 2. (Gram.) Uniting the sense as well as the words.
  48. Cōp'ū-la-tive, n.p. 292(Gram.) A copulative conjunction. 2. Connection. [Obs.] Ricaut.
  49. Cōp'ū-la-tive-ly, adv.p. 292In a copulative manner.
  50. Cŏp'ū-la-to-ry, a.p. 292Pertaining to copulation; tending or serving to unite; copulative.
  51. Cōp'y, n.p. 292An abundance or plenty of any thing; copiousness. [Obs.] She was blessed with no more copy of wit, but to serve his humor thus. B. Jonson. 2. A writing like another writing; a transcript from an…
  52. Cōp'y, v. t.p. 292To write, print, or engrave after an original; to imitate; to transcribe; to model after;—often with out, sometimes with off. I like the work well; ere it be demanded (As like enough it will), I'd…
  53. Cŏp'y, v. i.p. 292To make an imitation; to do any thing in imitation of something else. Some . . . never fail, when they copy, to follow the bad as well as the good things. Dryden.
  54. Cŏp'y-bōōk, n.p. 292A book in which copies are written or printed for learners to imitate.
  55. Cōp'y-er, n.p. 292One who copies or transcribes.
  56. Cŏp'y-hōld, n.p. 292(Eng. Law.) (a.) A tenure of estate by copy of court roll; or a tenure for which the tenant has nothing to show, except the rolls made by the steward of the lord's court. Blackstone. (b.) Land held…
  57. Cōp'y-hōld'er, n.p. 292One who is possessed of land in copy-hold.
  58. Cŏp'y-ing-prēss, n.p. 293A machine for taking, by pressure, an exact copy of any manuscript recently written.
  59. Cŏp'y-ist, n.p. 293A copier; a transcriber; a plagiarist.
  60. Cŏp'y-right (-rīt), n.p. 293The legal right which an author has in his own original productions, especially the exclusive right of an author to print, publish, and vend his own literary works, for his own benefit, during a…