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Copland

A piece of ground terminating in a point or acute angle.

Copped

Rising to a point or head; conical; pointed; crested.

Copper

To cover or coat with copper; to sheathe with sheets of copper; as, to copper a ship.

Copper-bottomed

Having a bottom made of copper, as a tin boiler or other vessel, or sheathed with copper, as a ship.

Copper-faced

Faced or covered with copper; as, copper-faced type.

Copper-fastened

Fastened with copper bolts, as the planks of ships, etc.; as, a copper-fastened ship.

Copperas

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.

Copperhead

A poisonous American serpent (Ancistrodon conotortrix), closely allied to the rattlesnake, but without rattles; -- called also copper-belly, and red viper.

Copperish

Containing, or partaking of the nature of, copper; like copper; as, a copperish taste.

Copperplate

A plate of polished copper on which a design or writing is engraved. An impression on paper taken from such a plate.

Coppersmith

One whose occupation is to manufacture copper utensils; a worker in copper.

Copperworm

The teredo; -- so called because it injures the bottoms of vessels, where not protected by copper. The ringworm.

Coppery

Mixed with copper; containing copper, or made of copper; like copper.

Coppice

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.

Copple

Something rising in a conical shape; specifically, a hill rising to a point.

Coppled

Rising to a point; conical; copped.

Copra

The dried meat of the cocoanut, from which cocoanut oil is expressed.

Coprolite

A piece of petrified dung; a fossil excrement.

Coprolitic

Containing, pertaining to, or of the nature of, coprolites.

Cops

The connecting crook of a harrow.

Copse

To trim or cut; -- said of small trees, brushwood, tufts of grass, etc.

Copsy

Characterized by copses.

Coptic

Of or pertaining to the Copts. The language of the Copts.

Coptis

small genus of low perennial herbs having yellow rhizomes and white or yellow flowers.

Copts

An Egyptian race thought to be descendants of the ancient Egyptians.

Copula

The word which unites the subject and predicate.

Copulate

To unite in sexual intercourse; to come together in the act of generation.

Copulation

The act of coupling or joining; union; conjunction.

Copulatory

Pertaining to copulation; tending or serving to unite; copulative.

Copy

To make a copy or copies; to imitate.

copybook

a book containing models of good penmanship; used in teaching penmanship.

Copygraph

A contrivance for producing manifold copies of a writing or drawing; -- made obsolete by later developments in copying technology; see xerography.

Copyhold

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.

Copyist

A copier; a transcriber; an imitator; a plagiarist.

copyreader

an editor who prepares text for publication.

Coque

A small loop or bow of ribbon used in making hats, boas, etc.

Coquet

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.

Coquetry

Attempts to attract admiration, notice, or love, for the mere gratification of vanity; trifling in love.

Coquette

A vain, trifling woman, who endeavors to attract admiration from a desire to gratify vanity; a flirt; -- formerly sometimes applied also to men.

Coquettish

Practicing or exhibiting coquetry; alluring; enticing.

Coquille

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.

Coquimbite

A mineral consisting principally of sulphate of iron; white copperas; -- so called because found in the province of Coquimbo, Chili.

Coquina

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.

Cor

A Hebrew measure of capacity; a homer.

Cora

The Arabian gazelle (Gazella Arabica), found from persia to North Africa.

coracan

an East Indian cereal grass (Eleusine coracana) whose seeds yield a somewhat bitter flour, a staple in the Orient.

Coracias

the type genus of the Coraciidae.

Coraciidae

a family of birds comprising the rollers.

Coraciiformes

an order of birds including the rollers; kingfishers; hornbills; hoopoes; motmots; bee-eaters; todies.

Coracle

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.

Corah

Plain; undyed; -- applied to Indian silk. Corah silk.

Coral

The hard parts or skeleton of various Anthozoa, and of a few Hydrozoa. Similar structures are also formed by some Bryozoa.

coralberry

a North American deciduous shrub (Symphoricarpos orbiculatus) cultivated for its abundant clusters of coral-red berrylike fruits.

Coraled

Having coral; covered with coral.

Corallian

A deposit of coralliferous limestone forming a portion of the middle division of the oolite; -- called also coral-rag.

Corallin

A yellow coal-tar dyestuff which probably consists chiefly of rosolic acid. See Aurin, and Rosolic acid under Rosolic.

Coralline

A submarine, semicalcareous or calcareous plant, consisting of many jointed branches.

Corallite

A mineral substance or petrifaction, in the form of coral.

Coralloid

Having the form of coral; branching like coral.

Corallorhiza

a genus of leafless root-parasitic orchids having small purplish or yellowish racemose flowers with lobed lips; it is widely distributed in temperate regions.

Corallum

The coral or skeleton of a zoophyte, whether calcareous of horny, simple or compound. See Coral.

coralroot

a European bittercress (Dentaria bulbifera) having a knotted white rootstock.

coralwood

an East Indian tree (Adenanthera pavonina) with racemes of yellow-white flowers; cultivated as an ornamental.

Coralwort

A cruciferous herb of certain species of Dentaria; -- called also toothwort, tooth violet, or pepper root.

Coranach

A lamentation for the dead; a dirge.

Coranto Corant

A sprightly but somewhat stately dance, now out of fashion.

Corb

A basket used in coal mines, etc. see Corf.

Corban

An offering of any kind, devoted to God and therefore not to be appropriated to any other use; esp., an offering in fulfillment of a vow.

Corbeil

A sculptured basket of flowers; a corbel.

Corbel

To furnish with a corbel or corbels; to support by a corbel; to make in the form of a corbel.

Corbel-table

A horizontal row of corbels, with the panels or filling between them; also, less properly used to include the stringcourse on them.

Corbelling Corbeling

Corbel work or the construction of corbels; a series of corbels or piece of continuous corbeled masonry, sometimes of decorative purpose, as in the stalactite ornament of the Moslems.

Corbiestep

One of the steps in which a gable wall is often finished in place of a continuous slope; -- also called crowstep.

Corchorus

The common name of the Kerria Japonica or Japan globeflower, a yellow-flowered, perennial, rosaceous plant, seen in old-fashioned gardens.

Cord

To bind with a cord; to fasten with cords; to connect with cords; to ornament or finish with a cord or cords, as a garment.

Cordage

Ropes or cords, collectively; hence, anything made of rope or cord, as those parts of the rigging of a ship which consist of ropes.

Cordaitales

an order of extinct plants having tall arborescent trunks comparable to or more advanced than cycads; known from the Pennsylvanian; probably extinct since the Mesozoic.

Cordaites

a genus of tall Paleozoic trees superficially resembling modern screw pines; they were structurally intermediate in some ways between cycads and conifers.

Cordate

Heart-shaped; as, a cordate leaf.

Corded

Bound or fastened with cords.

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