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&fist; In printing from a copper- or steel plate the lines are filled with ink, the surface of the plate is wiped clean, the paper laid upon it, and the impression taken by pressing it under the roller of a plate press.

Copperplate press. See Plate press, under Plate.

Cop"per*smith` (-sm&ibreve;th`), n. One whose occupation is to manufacture copper utensils; a worker in copper.

Cop"per works` (?). A place where copper is wrought or manufactured. Woodward.

Cop"per*worm` (?), n. (Zo÷l.) (a) The teredo; -- so called because it injures the bottoms of vessels, where not protected by copper. (b) The ringworm.

Cop"per*y (?), a. Mixed with copper; containing copper, or made of copper; like copper.

Cop"pice (k&obreve;p"p&ibreve;s), n. [OF. copeiz, fr. coper, couper, to cut, F. couper, fr. cop, coup, colp, a blow, F. coup, L. colaphus, fr. Gr. ko`lafos. Cf. Copse, and cf. CoupÚ, Coupee.] A grove of small growth; a thicket of brushwood; a wood cut at certain times for fuel or other purposes. See Copse.

The rate of coppice lands will fall, upon the discovery of coal mines. Locke.

Cop"pin (?), n.[See Cop.] A cop of thread.

Cop"ple (?), n. [A dim. of Cop.] Something rising in a conical shape; specifically, a hill rising to a point.

A low cape, and upon it a copple not very high. Hakluyt.

Cop"ple-crown (?), n. A created or high-topped crown or head. "Like the copple- crown the lapwing has." T. Randolph.

-- Cop"ple-crowned` (#), a.

Cop"pled (?), a. [From Copple.] Rising to a point; conical; copped. [Obs.] Woodward.

Cop"ple dust` (?). Cupel dust. [Obs.]

Powder of steel, or copple dust. Bacon.

Cop"ple*stone` (?), n. A cobblestone. [Obs.]

Copps (?), n. See Copse. [Obs.]

Co"pra (?), n. [Malayßlam koppara or Hind. khoprā.] (Com.) The dried meat of the cocoanut, from which cocoanut oil is expressed. [Written also cobra, copperah, coppra.]

Cop"ro*lite (?), n. [Gr. ko`pros dung + -lite.] (Paleon.) A piece of petrified dung; a fossil excrement.

Cop`ro*lit"ic (?), a. Containing, pertaining to, or of the nature of, coprolites.

Co*proph"a*gan (?), n. [See Coprophagous.] (Zo÷l.) A kind of beetle which feeds upon dung.

Co*proph"a*gous (?), a. [Gr. &?; exrement + &?; to eat.] (Zo÷l.) Feeding upon dung, as certain insects.

Cop-rose` (?), n. [F. coprose, of uncertain origin; cf. D. klaproos, klapperroos.] The red, or corn, poppy. [Written also cup-rose.]

Cops (?), n. [AS. cops, cosp, fetter.] The connecting crook of a harrow. [Prov. Eng.]

Copse (?), n. [Contr. from coppice.] A wood of small growth; a thicket of brushwood. See Coppice.

Near yonder copse where once the garden smiled. Goldsmith.

Copse, v. t. 1. To trim or cut; -- said of small trees, brushwood, tufts of grass, etc. Halliwell.