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An American Dictionary of the English Language
Revised and enlarged (Goodrich & Porter)
Springfield, Mass. · G. & C. Merriam · 1865
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Cōp'ro-līte, n. p. 292(Paleon.) Petrified dung of carnivorous reptiles. Buckland.Cōp'ro-līt'ic, a. p. 292Containing or resembling coprolites.Co-prōph'a-gan, n. p. 292(Entom.) A kind of beetle which lives in, or feeds upon, the dung of animals.Co-prōph'a-goūs, a. p. 292Feeding on excrements or other filth.Cōps, n. p. 292The connecting crook of a harrow.Cŏpse, n. p. 292A wood of small growth. See COPPICE. Near yonder copse where once the garden smiled. Goldsmith.Cōpse, v. t. p. 292To trim or cut;—said of brushwood, tufts of grass, &c. Halliwell.Cōp'sy, a. p. 292Having copses. “Copsy villages on either side.” Dyer.Cōpt, n. p. 292A descendant of an ancient Egyptian race, belonging to the Jacobite or Monophysite sect.Cōp'tic, a. p. 292Belonging or relating to the Copts.Cōp'tic, n. p. 292The language of the Copts.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.Cōp'ū-late, a. p. 292Joined. [Obs.] Bacon.Cōp'ū-lāte, v. t. p. 292To join in pairs; to unite; to couple; to pair. [Obs.] Bailey.Cōp'ū-lāte, v. i. p. 292To unite in sexual embrace.Cōp/u-lā'tion, n. p. 292The act of coupling; the embrace of the sexes in the act of generation; coition.Cōp'ū-la-tīve, a. p. 292Serving to couple, unite, or connect. 2. (Gram.) Uniting the sense as well as the words.Cōp'ū-la-tive, n. p. 292(Gram.) A copulative conjunction. 2. Connection. [Obs.] Ricaut.Cōp'ū-la-tive-ly, adv. p. 292In a copulative manner.Cŏp'ū-la-to-ry, a. p. 292Pertaining to copulation; tending or serving to unite; copulative.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…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…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.Cŏp'y-bōōk, n. p. 292A book in which copies are written or printed for learners to imitate.Cōp'y-er, n. p. 292One who copies or transcribes.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…Cōp'y-hōld'er, n. p. 292One who is possessed of land in copy-hold.Cŏp'y-ing-prēss, n. p. 293A machine for taking, by pressure, an exact copy of any manuscript recently written.Cŏp'y-ist, n. p. 293A copier; a transcriber; a plagiarist.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…Cōquel'i-cōt, n. p. 293[Bot.] The wild poppy, or red corn-rose. 2. The color of the wild poppy; a color nearly red, like orange mixed with scarlet.Co-quēt’, v. t. p. 293To attempt to attract the notice, admiration, or love of; or to treat with an appearance of tenderness or regard, with a view to deceive and disappoint. You are coquetting a maid of honor. Swift.Co-quēt', v. i. p. 293To trifle in love; to treat a person with an appearance of favor, but with a design to deceive and disappoint.Co-quĕt'ry, n. p. 293Attempts to attract admiration, notice, or love, with the design of deceiving; affectation of amorous advances; trifling in love. “Little affectations of coquetry.” Addison.Co-quĕtte', n. p. 293A vain, trifling female, who endeavors to attract admiration and gain matrimonial offers, from a desire to gratify vanity, and with the intention to reject her suitor; a jilt. The light coquettes in…Co-quēt′/tish, a. p. 293Practicing or exhibiting coquetry; befitting a coquette. “A pretty, coquettish housemaid.” W. Irving.Co-quêt'tish-ly, adv. p. 293In a coquettish manner.Co-quil'la-nŭt, n. p. 293(Bot.) The fruit of a Brazilian tree (Attalea funifera of Martius). ¶ Its shell is hazel-brown in color, very hard and close in texture, and is much used by turners in forming ornamental articles.Co-quim'bite, n. p. 293(Min.) A mineral consisting principally of sulphate of iron; white copperas;—so called because found in Coquimbo, Chili.Côr, n. p. 293A Hebrew measure of capacity, containing ten baths, equivalent to eleven and one ninth bushels; a homer. [Obs.]Co-rā'ci-as, n. p. 293(Ornith.) The roller; a genus of passerine birds related to the jays and crows.Cō'ra-cite, n. p. 293(Min.) A mineral consisting principally of the oxides of uranium, lead, and iron, but containing also small proportions of lime, silica, carbonic acid, and water. Dana.Cōr'a-cle, n. p. 293A boat used, in Wales, by fishermen, made by covering a wicker frame with leather or oil-cloth; a similar boat used by the ancient Egyptians.Cŏr'a-coid, n. p. 293(Anat.) A small, sharp process of the scapula, shaped like a crow’s beak. Dunglison.Cōr'a-coid, a. p. 293Shaped like a crow's beak.Cōr'al, n. p. 293The solid secretion of zoophytes, produced within the tissues of the polyps, and corresponding to the skeleton in higher animals. It consists almost purely of carbonate of lime. 2. A piece of coral…Cōr'aled, a. p. 293Having coral; covered with coral.Cōr'al-lā'ceoŭs, a. p. 293Like coral, or partaking of its qualities.Cōr'al-līf'er-oŭs, a. p. 293Containing or producing coral.Cŏr'al-li-fōrm or Cō-rā'l'li-fōrm, a. p. 293Resembling coral; forked and crooked.Cŏr'al-līg'e-noŭs, a. p. 293Producing coral; coralligerous. Humble.Cōr'al-līg'er-oŭs, a. p. 293Producing coral; coralliferous.Cŏr'al-līne, a. p. 293Consisting of coral; like coral; containing coral.Cōr'al-līne, n. p. 293(Bot.) A submarine, semi-calcareous or calcareous plant, consisting of many jointed branches, resembling some species of moss. 2. A piece of certain minute corals, growing in moss-like forms. Dana.Cōr'al-līn-ĭte, n. p. 293A fossil coralline.Cŏr'al-līte, n. p. 293A mineral substance or petrifaction, in the form of coral.Cŏr'al-lōid or Cŏr'al-lōid'al, a. p. 293Having the form of coral; branching like coral.Cŏr'al-loid, n. p. 293A species of minute corals called Escara. [Obs.] ☞ The term was also sometimes applied to the Gorgonias. 2. (Geol.) A deposit of coralliferous limestone forming a portion of the middle division of…Cō-răl'lum, n. p. 293(Zoöl.) The coral or solid part of a zoophyte, whether composed of stone or horn, it being of the former in ordinary corals, and mainly of the latter in the Gorgonia, or sea-fan tribe. Dana.Cŏr'al-rāg, n. p. 293(Geol.) A rock formed largely of fossil corals, occurring in the middle oölite. Dana.