Part 2407

<blockquote>three thousand ducats due unto the Jew, We freely <b>cope</b> your courteous pains withal. <i>Shak.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>3.</b> <def>To match one's self against; to meet; to encounter.</def>

<blockquote>I love to <b>cope</b> him in these sullen fits. <i>Shak.</i></blockquote>

<blockquote>They say he yesterday <b>coped</b> Hector in the battle, and struck him down. <i>Shak.</i></blockquote>

<h1>Cope-chisel</h1> <Xpage=319>

<hw>Cope"-chis`el</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>A narrow chisel adapted for cutting a groove.</def>

<i>Knight.</i>

<h1>Copeck</h1> <Xpage=319>

<hw>Co"peck</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[Russ. <ets>kopeika</ets>]</ety> <def>A Russian copper coin. See <er>Kopeck</er>.</def>

<h1>Coped</h1> <Xpage=319>

<hw>Coped</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <def>Clad in a cope.</def>

<h1>Copelata</h1> <Xpage=319>

<hw>Cop`e*la"ta</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt>; <plu>pl.</plu> <ety>[NL., fr. Gr. <?/ a rower.]</ety> <fld>(Zo\'94l.)</fld> <def>See <er>Larvalla</er>.</def>

<h1>Copeman</h1> <Xpage=319>

<hw>Cope"man</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[D. <ets>koopman</ets>, fr. <ets>koopen</ets> to buy. See <er>Cope</er>, <tt>v. i.</tt> <er>Chapman</er>.]</ety> <def>A chapman; a dealer; a merchant.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>

<blockquote>He would have sold his part of paradise For ready money, had he met a <b>copeman</b>. <i>B. Jonson.</i></blockquote>

<h1>Copepod</h1> <Xpage=319>

<hw>Cop"e*pod</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <fld>(Zo\'94l.)</fld> <def>Of or pertaining to the Copepoda.</def> -- <def2><tt>n.</tt> <def>One of the Copepoda.</def></def2>

<h1>Copepoda</h1> <Xpage=319>

<hw>Co*pep"o*da</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt>; <plu>pl</plu>. <ety>[NL., from Gr. <?/ an oar + <ets>-poda</ets>.]</ety> <fld>(Zo\'94l.)</fld> <def>An order of Entomastraca, including many minute Crustacea, both freshwater and marine.</def>

<note>&hand; They have a distinct carapace. The eggs are carried in a pair of external pouches. Some are parasites of fishes.</note>

<h1>Copernican</h1> <Xpage=319>

<hw>Co*per"ni*can</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <def>Pertaining to Copernicus, a Prussian by birth (<it>b.</it> 1473, <it>d.</it> 1543), who taught the world the solar system now received, called the <i>Copernican</i> system.</def>

<h1>Copesmate</h1> <Xpage=319>

<hw>Copes"mate`</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>An associate or companion; a friend; a partner.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>

<blockquote>Misshapen time, <b>copesmate</b> of ugly Night. <i>Shak.</i></blockquote>

<h1>Copestone</h1> <Xpage=319>

<hw>Cope"stone`</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <fld>(Arch.)</fld> <def>A stone for coping. See <er>Coping</er>.</def>