Emily Dickinson Lexicon

CO'PIST, n.

A copier; an ill formed word.

COP'LAND, n.

A piece of ground terminating in a cop or acute angle. [Not used in America.] – Dict.

CO-PLANT', v.t.

To plant together. [Not in use.] – Howel.

CO-POR'TION, n.

Equal share. [Not used.] – Spenser.

COP'PED, or COP'PLED, a. [See Cop.]

Rising to a point, or head. Copped like a sugar-loaf. – Wiseman.

COP'PEL, n. [See CUPEL.]

COP'PER, a.

Consisting of copper. – Cleaveland.

COP'PER, n. [D. koper; G. kupfer; Sw. koppar; Ir. copar; Corn. cober; L. cuprum; Fr. cuivre; Sp. cobre; Port. id. Arm. cuevr, coevre; supposed to be so called from Cyprus, an isle in the Mediterranean. This opinion is probable, as the Greeks called it χαλκος κυπριος, Cyprian brass, brass of Cyprus. In this case, copper was originally an adjective.]

A metal, of a pale red color, tinged with yellow. Next to gold, silver and platinum, it is the most ductile, and malleable of the metals, and it is more elastic than any metal except steel, and the most sonorous of all the metals. It is found native in lamins or fibers, in a gang almost always quartzous; it is also found crystallized, and in grains or superficial lamins on stones or iron. It is not altered by water, but is tarnished by exposure to the air, and is at last covered with a green carbonated oxyd. Copper in sheets is much used for covering the bottoms of ships, for boilers and other utensils; mixed with tin and zink, it is used in enamel-painting, dyeing, &c.; mixed with tin, it forms bell-metal; with a smaller proportion, bronze; and with zink, it forms brass, pinchbeck, &c. When taken into the body it operates as a violent emetic, and all its preparations are violent poisons. – Fourcroy. Encyc. Hooper.

COP'PER, n.

1. A vessel made of copper, particularly a large boiler.
2. Formerly, a small copper coin. My friends filled my pocket with coppers. – Franklin.

COP'PER, v.t.

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

COP'PER-AS, n. [Fr. couperose; D. koperrood, that is, red copper, and koperroest is copper rust, verdigris; Arm. couperosa, or couperos.]

Sulphate of iron, or green vitriol; a salt of a peculiar astringent taste, and of various colors, green, gray, yellowish, or whitish, but more usually green. It is much used in dyeing black and in making ink, and in medicine, as a tonic. The copperas of commerce is usually made by the decomposition of iron pyrites. The term copperas, was formerly synonymous with vitriol, and included the green, blue and white vitriols, or the sulphates of iron, copper and zink. – Cleaveland. Fourcroy.

COP'PER-BEL-LY, n.

An American serpent, the Coluber erythrogaster.

COP'PER-BOT-TOM-ED, a.

Having a bottom sheathed with copper.

COP'PER-ED, pp.

Covered with sheets of copper; sheathed.

COP'PER-FAST-EN-ED, a.

Fastened with copper bolts.

COP'PER-HEAD, n. [from its color.]

A poisonous American serpent, the Trigonocephalus contortrix; the Boa contortrix of Linnæus.

COP'PER-ISH, a.

Containing copper; like copper or partaking of it.

COP'PER-NOSE, n.

A red nose. – Shak.

COP'PER-PLATE, n.

A plate of polished copper on which concave lines are engraved or corroded, according to some delineated figure or design. This plate, when charged with any colored fluid, imparts an impression of the figure or design to paper or parchment. – Encyc.

COP'PER-SMITH, n.

One whose occupation is to manufacture copper utensils.

COP'PER-WORK, n.

A place where copper is wrought or manufactured. – Woodward.

COP'PER-WORM, n.

A little worm in ships; a worm that frets garments; a worm that breeds in one's hand. – Ainsworth.

COP'PER-Y, a.

Mixed with copper; containing copper, or made of copper; like copper in taste or smell. – Woodward.

COP'PICE, or COPSE, n. [Norm. coupiz, from couper, to cut, Gr. κοπτω.]

A wood of small growth, or consisting of underwood or brushwood; a wood cut at certain times for fuel. The rate of coppice lands will fall on the discovery of coal-mines. – Locke.

COP'PLED, a. [from cop.]

Rising to a point; conical. – Woodward.