<B>copper</B> (1), noun, verb, adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD><I>noun </I> <B>1. </B>a tough, reddish-brown, metallic chemical element which occurs in various ores. Copper resists rust and is easily shaped into thin sheets or fine wire. It is an excellent conductor of heat and electricity. <BR> <I>Ex. On account of its high electrical conductivity, copper finds its greatest utilization in the electrical industry (W. R. Jones).</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>something made of copper. <DD><B> 3. </B>a coin made of copper or bronze, especially a penny. <DD><B> 4. </B>a large boiler or caldron, originally made of copper but now usually of other materials. <DD><B> 5. </B>a reddish-brown color like that of polished copper. <DD><B> 6. </B>any one of various small butterflies with copper-colored wings, that can fly at great speed. <DD><I>v.t. </I> <B>1. </B>to cover or coat with copper. <DD><B> 2. </B>(U.S.) (in the game of faro) to lay a copper coin or other token upon (a card) to indicate that the player bets against the card; bet against. <DD><I>adj. </I> <B>1. </B>of copper. <BR> <I>Ex. a copper kettle.</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>reddish-brown; copper-colored. <BR> <I>Ex. She had copper hair.</I> <BR><I>expr. <B>coppers,</B> </I>the large boilers or cooking vessels on shipboard. <BR> <I>Ex. What can you expect from officers who boil their 'taters in the ship's coppers? (Frederick Marryat).</I> </DL>
<A NAME="copper">
<B>copper</B> (2), noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> (Slang.) a policeman. </DL>
<A NAME="copperage">
<B>Copper Age,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> the prehistoric period after the Stone Age in which implements of copper were first produced. <BR> <I>Ex. Bronze ... was not sufficiently superior to copper to enable the Bronze Age to greatly surpass the Copper Age (White and Renner).</I> </DL>
<A NAME="copperarsenite">
<B>copper arsenite,</B> =Scheele's green.</DL>
<A NAME="copperas">
<B>copperas, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a compound of iron and sulfur which occurs in light-green crystals, used in making ink, in dyeing, in medicine as a disinfectant, in purifying water, and in photography; green vitriol. Copperas is a hydrated sulfate of iron. </DL>
<A NAME="copperbeech">
<B>copper beech,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a cultivated variety of the beech tree of southern and central Europe, having purplish leaves. </DL>
<B>copper color,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a lustrous, reddish-brown color. </DL>
<A NAME="coppercolored">
<B>copper-colored, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> of a lustrous, reddish-brown color. <BR> <I>Ex. a copper-colored sky at sunset.</I> </DL>
<A NAME="coppercyanide">
<B>copper cyanide,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a poisonous, white or greenish powder used in electroplating. </DL>
<A NAME="copperglance">
<B>copper glance,</B> =chalcocite.</DL>
<A NAME="copperhead">
<B>copperhead, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a poisonous snake of eastern North America; redeye. It has a copper-colored head and is related to the water moccasin and the rattlesnake. Copperheads grow to be about three feet long. <BR> <I>Ex. Copperheads have pretty copper-colored bands of irregular shape on their slender, graceful bodies that make them beautiful snakes (A. M. Winchester).</I> </DL>
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<B>Copperhead, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> (U.S.) a person in the North who sympathized with the South during the Civil War. </DL>
<A NAME="copperish">
<B>copperish, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> like copper; coppery. </DL>
<A NAME="coppernaphthenate">
<B>copper naphthenate,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a greenish solid containing about 5 to 10 per cent copper, used in making wood preservatives and germicidal paint. </DL>
<B>copperplate, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>a thin, flat piece of copper on which a design, writing, or the like, is engraved or etched. <DD><B> 2. </B>an engraving, picture, or print made from a copperplate. <DD><B> 3. </B>the copperplate printing or engraving process. <DD><B> 4. </B>Often, <B>Copperplate.</B> a style of cursive writing popular in Europe and America during the 1700's, characterized by lines of varying thickness; English Round Hand. </DL>
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<B>copper pyrites,</B> =chalcopyrite.</DL>
<A NAME="coppers">
<B>coppers, </B>noun pl.<DL COMPACT><DD> See under <B>copper</B> (1). </DL>
<A NAME="coppersmith">
<B>coppersmith, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>a person who makes things out of copper. <DD><B> 2. </B>a bird, the crimson-breasted barbet of India, that utters a gong-like cry. </DL>
<A NAME="coppersulfate">
<B>copper sulfate,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a poisonous, blue crystalline substance produced from copper, used as a dye, chemical reagent, preservative, etc.; blue vitriol. <BR> <I>Ex. Copper sulfate is effective only against algae, and does not injure fish if used at a low enough concentration (New York Times).</I> </DL>
<A NAME="copperworm">
<B>copperworm, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a shipworm. </DL>
<A NAME="coppery">
<B>coppery, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>of or containing copper. <DD><B> 2. </B>like copper. <BR> <I>Ex. a coppery sky at sunset.</I> </DL>
<B>copra</B> or <B>coprah, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> the dried meat of coconuts. Coconut oil is obtained from copra. </DL>
<A NAME="copremia">
<B>copremia</B> or <B>copraemia, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> blood poisoning due to absorption of fecal matter. </DL>
<A NAME="copremic">
<B>copremic</B> or <B>copraemic, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> having copremia. </DL>
<A NAME="coproduce">
<B>co-produce, </B>transitive verb, <B>-duced,</B> <B>-ducing.</B><DL COMPACT><DD> to produce (a motion picture, play, or other dramatic production) jointly. <BR> <I>Ex. His son co-produced with David B. Graham the bill of three one-act plays (New York Times).</I> noun <B>co-producer.</B> </DL>
<A NAME="coproduct">
<B>coproduct, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> something produced along with something else; by-product. </DL>
<A NAME="coproduction">
<B>co-production, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>a motion picture, play, or other dramatic production that is jointly produced. <DD><B> 2. </B>the act or process of jointly producing such a work of art. </DL>
<A NAME="coprolite">
<B>coprolite, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a stony, roundish fossil, the petrified excrement of an animal. </DL>
<A NAME="coprological">
<B>coprological, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> of coprology; scatological. </DL>
<A NAME="coprology">
<B>coprology, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>a gathering of excrement or filth. <DD><B> 2. </B>obscenity in literature or art; scatology. </DL>
<A NAME="coprophagous">
<B>coprophagous, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> feeding on dung, as certain beetles. </DL>
<A NAME="coprophagy">
<B>coprophagy, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> the condition of being coprophagous. </DL>
<A NAME="coprophilia">
<B>coprophilia, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> (Psychology.) an abnormal interest in excrement. </DL>
<A NAME="coprophilic">
<B>coprophilic, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>of or having to dowith coprophilia. <DD><B> 2. </B>(Botany.) growing on dung. </DL>
<A NAME="coproprietor">
<B>coproprietor, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a joint proprietor; coowner. </DL>
<A NAME="coprosperity">
<B>co-prosperity, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a joint proprietor; coowner. </DL>
<A NAME="coprosperity">
<B>co-prosperity, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> economic prosperity achieved through partnership or cooperation between countries, as by forming a common market. </DL>
<A NAME="coprozoic">
<B>coprozoic, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> living on dung; coprophagous. <BR> <I>Ex. The coprozoic insects ... are attracted to caves by the large stores of guano (R. S. Hawes).</I> </DL>
<A NAME="copsandrobbers">
<B>cops-and-robbers, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>a children's game in which players enact the pursuit and capture of outlaws by policemen. <BR> <I>Ex. to play cops-and-robbers.</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>a story, motion picture, or television program, resembling this game. <BR> <I>Ex. "Doulos--The Finger Man" is cops-and-robbers a la francaise (New Yorker).</I> </DL>
<A NAME="copse">
<B>copse, </B>noun, verb, <B>copsed,</B> <B>copsing.</B><DL COMPACT><DD><I>noun </I> a thicket of small trees, bushes, or shrubs. <BR> <I>Ex. The dog flushed six quail from the copse.</I> (SYN) grove, bosk, boscage, brushwood, underwood. <DD><I>v.t. </I> to cut or trim (trees or shrubs), so as to provide or preserve a copse. <DD><I>v.i. </I> to form a copse; grow up again from roots or stumps after being cut down. Also, (especially British,) <B>coppice.</B> </DL>
<A NAME="copsewood">
<B>copsewood, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>the low trees and underwood of a copse. <DD><B> 2. </B>(Obsolete.) a copse. </DL>
<A NAME="copt">
<B>Copt, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>a native of Egypt descended from the ancient Egyptians. <DD><B> 2. </B>a member of the Coptic Church. </DL>
<A NAME="copt">
<B>Copt.,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> Coptic. </DL>
<A NAME="copter">
<B>copter, </B>noun, intransitive verb, transitive verb.<DL COMPACT><DD> (Informal.) helicopter. <BR> <I>Ex. The copter flew forward and spawned a whole new generation of aircraft in America (Newsweek). At week's end he coptered out to Gettysburg (Time).</I> </DL>
<A NAME="coptic">
<B>Coptic, </B>adjective, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><I>adj. </I> <B>1. </B>of or having to do with the Copts or the language of the Copts. <BR> <I>Ex. the Coptic version of the New Testament.</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>of or having to do with the Coptic Church. <BR> <I>Ex. Coptic rituals.</I> <DD><I>noun </I> a Hamitic language formerly spoken by the Copts. It is now used only in the ritual of the Coptic Church. </DL>
<A NAME="copticchurch">
<B>Coptic Church,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> the national Christian church of Egypt and formerly of Ethiopia. <BR> <I>Ex. The Coptic Church in Egypt ... has been an independent Monophysite Church since the fifth century (London Times).</I> </DL>
