<B>copyist, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>a person who makes written copies. (SYN) transcriber. <DD><B> 2. </B>a person who copies; imitator. <BR> <I>Ex. copyists who can market cheap versions of their gowns within weeks after the fall showings (Time).</I> </DL>
<A NAME="copyofverses">
<B>copy of verses,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> (British.) a short composition in verse, usually one set as a school exercise. </DL>
<A NAME="copyread">
<B>copyread, </B>transitive verb, <B>-read,</B> <B>-reading.</B><DL COMPACT><DD> to read and edit (manuscript copy), especially for typesetting and printing. <BR> <I>Ex. She worked night after night addressing campaign literature and copyreading speeches (Time).</I> </DL>
<A NAME="copyreader">
<B>copyreader, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a person who reads and edits copy for a newspaper or book. </DL>
<A NAME="copyright">
<B>copyright, </B>noun, verb, adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD><I>noun </I> the exclusive right to publish or sell and otherwise control a book, play, poem, picture, piece of music, or other original work that can be reproduced by printing, playing, or stamping, granted by a government for a certain number of years (in the United States until 1978, it was 28 years, renewable for another 28; after December 1977, the term of copyright is the lifetime of the author plus 50 years). (Abbr:) c. <DD><I>v.t. </I> to protect (a literary, musical, or artistic work) by getting a copyright. <DD><I>adj. </I> protected or secured by copyright. <BR> <I>Ex. a copyright song.</I> adj. <B>copyrightable.</B> </DL>
<A NAME="copyrighter">
<B>copyrighter, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a person who copyrights a book, picture, or other literary, musical, or artistic work. </DL>
<A NAME="copywriter">
<B>copywriter, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a writer of copy, especially for advertising. </DL>
<A NAME="copywriting">
<B>copywriting, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> the work of a copywriter. <BR> <I>Ex. Brower rose through the copywriting end of the ad business [and] is still a phrasemaker at heart (Time).</I> </DL>
<A NAME="coqauvin">
<B>coq au vin,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> (French.) chicken prepared by browning it in butter and cooking it with wine. </DL>
<A NAME="coqfeather">
<B>coq feather,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> the feather of a rooster, or a similar feather, used for trimming women's hats. </DL>
<A NAME="coque">
<B>coque, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a loop, knot, or bow of ribbon for trimming. </DL>
<A NAME="coquelicot">
<B>coquelicot, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>the common European corn poppy. <DD><B> 2. </B>its color, a bright orange-red; poppy red. </DL>
<A NAME="coquet">
<B>coquet</B> (1), verb, <B>-quetted,</B> <B>-quetting,</B> adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD><I>v.i. </I> <B>1. </B>to act as a coquette; flirt (with). <DD><B> 2. </B>(Figurative.) to trifle or toy (with) a matter or proposal. (SYN) dally. <DD><I>adj. </I> like a coquette; coquettish. </DL>
<A NAME="coquet">
<B>coquet</B> (2), noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> (Obsolete.) a male flirt. </DL>
<A NAME="coquetry">
<B>coquetry, </B>noun, pl. <B>-ries.</B><DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>the behavior or arts of a coquette; flirting. <BR> <I>Ex. She did not seek to hide the weaknesses in her character, of which the most important was coquetry (Atlantic).</I> (SYN) flirtation. <DD><B> 2. </B>(Figurative.) a toying with proposals, political parties, or any other matters, without seriously supporting or considering them; trifling. <BR> <I>Ex. There was a good deal of political coquetry in the patriotic independence of ... Wentworth (Benjamin Disraeli).</I> </DL>
<A NAME="coquette">
<B>coquette, </B>noun, verb, <B>-quetted,</B> <B>-quetting.</B><DL COMPACT><DD><I>noun </I> a woman who tries to attract men merely to please her vanity; flirt. <DD><I>v.i. </I> to practice coquetry; flirt or toy (with). </DL>
<A NAME="coquettish">
<B>coquettish, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>of a coquette. <DD><B> 2. </B>like a coquette or a coquette's. <BR> <I>Ex. The pretty girl winked and gave him a coquettish smile.</I> adv. <B>coquettishly.</B> noun <B>coquettishness.</B> </DL>
<A NAME="coquillanut">
<B>coquilla nut,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> the fruit or nut of a Brazilian palm whose thick, hard shell is much used for carving or turning out objects on a lathe. </DL>
<A NAME="coquille">
<B>coquille, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>a shell, or a dish in the form of a shell, in which seafood is served. <DD><B> 2. </B>food served in such a shell or dish. </DL>
<A NAME="coquina">
<B>coquina, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>a soft, porous, whitish limestone composed of fragments of sea shells and corals. <BR> <I>Ex. Coquina is used in Florida and the West Indies as a building material.</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>a small clam of many shades of color found on the surface of beaches, used especially for making a soup. </DL>
<A NAME="coquito">
<B>coquito, </B>noun, or <B>coquito palm,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a palm of Chile, whose sap is boiled to make sweet syrup. </DL>
<A NAME="cor">
<B>cor</B> (1), interjection.<DL COMPACT><DD> (British Slang.) an exclamation of surprise, annoyance, or the like. </DL>
<B>coraciiform, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> of or having to do with an order of birds that includes the kingfishers, hornbills, motmots, bee eaters, rollers, and hoopoes. </DL>
<A NAME="coracle">
<B>coracle, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a small, light boat made by covering a wooden frame with wicker or grass and a waterproof material such as pitch or animal skin. A coracle looks somewhat like a basket. It originated in ancient England and is still used in Wales and Ireland, especially for inland fishing. <BR> <I>Ex. In wicker-framed coracles planked with hides they voyaged even to the Hebrides (Atlantic).</I> </DL>
<A NAME="coracoid">
<B>coracoid, </B>noun, adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> (Anatomy.) <DD><I>noun </I> <B>1. </B>a bone between the shoulder blade and the breastbone in birds and certain reptiles. <DD><B> 2. </B>a bony process extending from the shoulder blade to or toward the breastbone in mammals. <DD><I>adj. </I> of this bone or bony process. </DL>
<A NAME="coral">
<B>coral, </B>noun, adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD><I>noun </I> <B>1a. </B>a stony, often brightly colored substance consisting of skeletons of certain kinds of tiny sea animals called polyps, which usually live in colonies in warm seas. Coral is mainly calcium carbonate. Reefs and small islands consisting of coral are common in the South Seas, the Caribbean, and Bermuda. Coral is often used for jewelry. <BR> <I>Ex. Coral grows in tropical areas in shallow water, and in the Pacific and Indian Oceans there are many coral atolls that are ringlike islands, enclosing a lagoon (Gaskell and Hill).</I> <DD><B> b. </B>any of the skeletons forming this substance. <DD><B> 2. </B>the little sea animal (a polyp) which makes coral and often forms large, branching or rounded colonies by budding. It is mostly stomach and mouth. <DD><B> 3a. </B>a piece of coral, especially red or pink coral, made into jewelry. <DD><B> b. </B>a toy made of polished coral, or of glass, bone, or the like, given to infants as a teething ring. <DD><B> 4. </B>a deep pink or red; coral red. <BR> <I>Ex. His barefoot soldiers ... tramping the snow to coral where they trod (James Russell Lowell).</I> <DD><B> 5. </B>the roe or unfertilized eggs of the lobster, that turn red when boiled. <DD><B> 6. </B><B>=coral snake.</B> <DD><I>adj. </I> <B>1. </B>made of coral. <BR> <I>Ex. a coral necklace.</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>resembling coral, especially in color; deep-pink or red; coral-red. <BR> <I>Ex. Forth from her coral lipssuch folly broke (William Congreve).</I> <DD><B> 3. </B>producing coral. <BR> <I>Ex. the coral polyps.</I> <DD><B> 4. </B>marked by the presence of coral. <BR> <I>Ex. the coral seas.</I> </DL>
<A NAME="coralbells">
<B>coralbells, </B>noun pl.<DL COMPACT><DD> a widely cultivated plant of the saxifrage family, native to Arizona and New Mexico, having bright red flowers shaped like bells. </DL>
<A NAME="coralberry">
<B>coralberry, </B>noun, pl. <B>-ries.</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a North American shrub of the honeysuckle family, bearing clusters of coral-red berries in the axils of the leaves. </DL>
<A NAME="coraled">
<B>coraled, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> abounding in coral. </DL>
<B>coral limestone,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> stone made of fossil coral. </DL>
<A NAME="coralline">
<B>coralline, </B>adjective, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><I>adj. </I> <B>1. </B>consisting of or containing coral. <DD><B> 2. </B>like coral in shape or color. <DD><I>noun </I> <B>1. </B>a coral or any similar animal. <BR> <I>Ex. Then the ebbing waters reveal a sea floor enamelled with the rose of encrusting corallines (New Yorker).</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>any of a family of red algae whose fronds contain lime. </DL>
<A NAME="corallite">
<B>corallite, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>a fossil coral. <DD><B> 2. </B>the coral skeleton of a polyp. </DL>
<A NAME="coralloid">
<B>coralloid, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> resembling or formed like coral. </DL>
