A fresh-water tortoise (Pseudemus concinna) of Florida. The box tortoise.
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The phalarope; -- so called because its toes are like the coot's.
A striped satin made in India.
The top of a thing; the head; a crest.
The red, or corn, poppy.
A more or less viscid, yellowish liquid, the bitter oleoresin of several species of Copaifera, a genus of trees growing in South America and the West Indies. It is stimulant and diuretic, and was formerly much used in affections of the mucous membranes. It is also used in varnishes and lacquers, and in cleaning oil paintings. -- called also balsam of copaiba, copaiba balsam, balsam capivi, and Jesuits' resin.
The yellowish, fragrant balsam yielded by the sweet gum; also, the tree itself.
Partnership in inheritance; joint heirship; joint right of succession to an inheritance.
One who has an equal portion with others of an inheritance.
An equal share of an inheritance.
To share.
A compartment.
One who is jointly concerned with one or more persons in business, etc.; a partner; an associate; a partaker; a sharer.
The state of being a copartner or of having a joint interest in any matter.
the state of being copartners in any undertaking.
completely satisfactory.
Having a high crown, or a point or peak at top.
A joint patriot.
To bargain for; to buy.
A narrow chisel adapted for cutting a groove.
A Russian copper coin. See Kopeck.
Clad in a cope.
See Larvalla.
A chapman; a dealer; a merchant.
A sweetened hot drink of spirit and beaten eggs.
Of or pertaining to the Copepoda. One of the Copepoda.
An order of Entomostraca, including many minute Crustacea, both fresh-water and marine.
Pertaining to Copernicus, a Prussian by birth (b. 1473, d. 1543), who taught the world the solar system now received, called the Copernican system.
same as copacetic.
An associate or companion; a friend; a partner.
A stone for coping. See Coping.
reproducing the features of an original especially in an inferior manner.
One who copies; one who writes or transcribes from an original; a transcriber.
The highest or covering course of masonry in a wall, often with sloping edges to carry off water; -- sometimes called capping.
Large in quantity or amount; plentiful; abundant; fruitful.
In a copious manner.
The state or quality of being copious; abudance; plenty; also, diffuseness in style.
A copier.
Situated in one plane.
A piece of ground terminating in a point or acute angle.
Equal share.
Rising to a point or head; conical; pointed; crested.
See Cupel.
To cover or coat with copper; to sheathe with sheets of copper; as, to copper a ship.
Having a bottom made of copper, as a tin boiler or other vessel, or sheathed with copper, as a ship.
Faced or covered with copper; as, copper-faced type.
Fastened with copper bolts, as the planks of ships, etc.; as, a copper-fastened ship.
Niccolite.
A red nose.
Green vitriol, or sulphate of iron; a green crystalline substance, of an astringent taste, used in making ink, in dyeing black, as a tonic in medicine, etc. It is made on a large scale by the oxidation of iron pyrites. Called also ferrous sulphate.
to provide with a copper bottom.
A poisonous American serpent (Ancistrodon conotortrix), closely allied to the rattlesnake, but without rattles; -- called also copper-belly, and red viper.
The act of covering with copper.
Containing, or partaking of the nature of, copper; like copper; as, a copperish taste.
A plate of polished copper on which a design or writing is engraved. An impression on paper taken from such a plate.
One whose occupation is to manufacture copper utensils; a worker in copper.
The teredo; -- so called because it injures the bottoms of vessels, where not protected by copper. The ringworm.
Mixed with copper; containing copper, or made of copper; like copper.
To cause to grow in the form of a coppice; to cut back (as young timber) so as to produce shoots from stools or roots.
A cop of thread.
Something rising in a conical shape; specifically, a hill rising to a point.
A created or high-topped crown or head.
Rising to a point; conical; copped.
A cobblestone.
See Copse.
The dried meat of the cocoanut, from which cocoanut oil is expressed.
A piece of petrified dung; a fossil excrement.
Containing, pertaining to, or of the nature of, coprolites.
A kind of beetle which feeds upon dung.
Feeding upon dung, as certain insects.
The connecting crook of a harrow.
To trim or cut; -- said of small trees, brushwood, tufts of grass, etc.
Brushwood; coppice.
Characterized by copses.
Of or pertaining to the Copts. The language of the Copts.
small genus of low perennial herbs having yellow rhizomes and white or yellow flowers.
An Egyptian race thought to be descendants of the ancient Egyptians.
The word which unites the subject and predicate.
To unite in sexual intercourse; to come together in the act of generation.
The act of coupling or joining; union; conjunction.
Connection.
In a copulative manner.
Pertaining to copulation; tending or serving to unite; copulative.
To make a copy or copies; to imitate.
someone who copies the words or behavior of another.
a book containing models of good penmanship; used in teaching penmanship.
See Copier.
A contrivance for producing manifold copies of a writing or drawing; -- made obsolete by later developments in copying technology; see xerography.
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. Land held in copyhold.
One possessed of land in copyhold.
From Copy, v.
A copier; a transcriber; an imitator; a plagiarist.
an editor who prepares text for publication.
To secure a copyright on.
A small loop or bow of ribbon used in making hats, boas, etc.
The wild poppy, or red corn rose.
To trifle in love; to stimulate affection or interest; to play the coquette; to deal playfully instead of seriously; to play (with); as, we have coquetted with political crime.
Attempts to attract admiration, notice, or love, for the mere gratification of vanity; trifling in love.
A vain, trifling woman, who endeavors to attract admiration from a desire to gratify vanity; a flirt; -- formerly sometimes applied also to men.
Practicing or exhibiting coquetry; alluring; enticing.
In a coquettish manner.
Lit., a shell; A shell or shell-like dish or mold in which viands are served. The expansion of the guard of a sword, dagger, etc. A form of ruching used as a dress trimming or for neckwear, and named from the manner in which it is gathered or fulled.
A mineral consisting principally of sulphate of iron; white copperas; -- so called because found in the province of Coquimbo, Chili.
A soft, whitish, coral-like stone, formed of broken shells and corals, found in the southern United States, and used for roadbeds and for building material, as in the fort at St. Augustine, Florida.
A Hebrew measure of capacity; a homer.
The Arabian gazelle (Gazella Arabica), found from persia to North Africa.
an East Indian cereal grass (Eleusine coracana) whose seeds yield a somewhat bitter flour, a staple in the Orient.
the type genus of the Coraciidae.
a family of birds comprising the rollers.
an order of birds including the rollers; kingfishers; hornbills; hoopoes; motmots; bee-eaters; todies.
A boat made by covering a wicker frame with leather or oilcloth. It was used by the ancient Britons, and is still used by fisherman in Wales and some parts of Ireland. Also, a similar boat used in Tibet and in Egypt.
The coracoid bone or process.
See Courage
Plain; undyed; -- applied to Indian silk. Corah silk.
same as coracan.
The hard parts or skeleton of various Anthozoa, and of a few Hydrozoa. Similar structures are also formed by some Bryozoa.
Same as Corallian.
a North American deciduous shrub (Symphoricarpos orbiculatus) cultivated for its abundant clusters of coral-red berrylike fruits.
Having coral; covered with coral.
Like coral, or partaking of its qualities.
A deposit of coralliferous limestone forming a portion of the middle division of the oolite; -- called also coral-rag.
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