Emily Dickinson Lexicon

COP'Y-HOLD-ER, n.

One who is possessed of land in copyhold.

COP'Y-ING, ppr.

Transcribing.

COP'Y-IST, n.

A copier; a transcriber.

COP'Y-RIGHT, n.

The sole right which an author has in his own original literary compositions; the exclusive right of an author to print, publish and vend his own literary works, for his own benefit; the like right in the hands of an assignee.

CO-QUAL'LIN, n.

A small quadruped of the squirrel kind, but incapable of climbing trees. – Dict. of Nat. Hist.

COQUE'LI-COT, or COQUE'LI-CO, n. [Fr.]

Wild poppy; corn rose: hence, the color of wild poppy.

CO-QUET', or CO-QUETTE', n. [Fr. coquet, a beau, a general lover, a cock-boat; coquette, a jilt; from the Welsh or Celtic coegen, a vain saucy wench, a coquet, from coeg, vain; Sp. coqueta; It. civetta, an owl; civettare, to play the wag, to trifle, to coquet; civetteria, coquetry; civettino, a vain young fellow.]

A vain, airy, trifling girl, who endeavors to attract admiration and advances in love, from a desire to gratify vanity, and then rejects her lover; a jilt. The light coquettes in sylphs aloft repair, / Mid sport and flutter in the fields of air. – Pope. Note. In French, coquet is masculine and coquette feminine; but as our language has no such termination for gender, it may be better to write coquet for both sexes, and for distinction prefix male to the word when applied to a man.

CO-QUET', v.i.

To trifle in love; to act the lover from vanity; to endeavor to gain admirers.

CO-QUET', v.t.

To attempt to attract notice, admiration or love, from vanity; to entertain with compliments and amorous tattle; to treat with an appearance of amorous tenderness. You are coquetting a maid of honor. – Swift.

CO-QUET'ISH, a.

Practicing coquetry.

CO'QUET-RY, n. [Fr. coquetterie.]

Attempts to attract admiration, notice or love, from vanity; affectation of amorous advances; trifling in love. – Addison.

CO-QUET'TED, pp.

Having used the arts of a coquet.

CO-QUET'TING, ppr.

Attracting notice to gain admirers, and then rejecting them.

COR'A-CLE, n. [W. cwrwgle.]

A boat used in Wales by fishermen, made by covering a wicker frame with leather or oil-cloth. – Johnson.

COR'A-COID, a.

Shaped like a beak. – Buckland.

COR'A-COID, n. [Gr. κοραξ, a crow, and ειδος, form.]

A small sharp process of the scapula, shaped like a crow's beak. – Hooper.

COR'AL, a.

Made of coral; resembling coral.

COR'AL, n. [L. corallium; Gr. κοραλλιον; Fr. corail, or coral; It. corallo; Sp. coral; D. koraal; G. koralle; Dan. koral.]

1. In zoology, a genus belonging to the order of vermes zoophyta. The trunk is radicated, jointed and calcarious. The species are distinguished by the form of their branches, and are found in the ocean adhering to stones, bones, shells, &c. Coral was formerly supposed to be a vegetable substance, but is now known to be composed of a congeries of animals. Coral is red, white and black. It is properly the shells of marine animals of the polype kind, consisting of calcarious earth combined with gelatine and other animal matter. In the South Sea, the isles are mostly coral rocks covered with earth. – Encyc. Nicholson. Corals seem to consist of carbonate of lime and animal matter, in equal proportions. – Ure.
2. A piece of coral worn by children about their necks.

COR-AL-LA'CEOUS, a.

Like coral, or partaking of its qualities.

COR'AL-LI-FORM, a. [coral and form.]

Resembling coral; forked and crooked. – Kirwan.

COR'AL-LINE, a.

Consisting of coral; like coral; containing coral.

COR'AL-LINE, n.

A submarine plant-like body, consisting of many slender, jointed branches, resembling some species of moss; or animals growing in the form of plants, having their stems fixed to other bodies. These stems are composed of capillary tubes, which pass through a calcarious crust and open on the surface. In the Linnean system, corallines are classed with the zoophytes. They have been distributed by Ellis into vesiculated, furnished with small bodies like bladders; tubular, composed of simple tubes; celliferous, which, when magnified, appear to be fine thin cells, the habitations of small animals; and articulated, consisting of short pieces of stony or cretaceous brittle matter, covered with pores or cells, joined by a tough, membranous, flexible substance, composed of many small tubes. But in this arrangement of Ellis, the term coralline is synonymous with the more ancient term lithophyta, including all the polype-bearing animals, and nearly coinciding with the zoophyta of Linnæus, and the polypiers of the French naturalists. – Encyc. Cyc.

COR'AL-LIN-ITE, n.

A fossil polypier or coralline. – Dict. Nat. Hist.

COR'AL-LITE, n.

A mineral substance or petrifaction, in the form of coral; or a fossil polypier, larger than a corallinite. – Kirwan. Dict. Nat. Hist.

COR'AL-LOID, or COR-AL-LOID'AL, a. [coral, and ειδος, form.]

Having the form of coral; branching like coral. – Dict. Nat. Hist.