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<p><b>2.</b> <def>A nickname applied to a person in the Northern States who sympathized with the South during the Civil War.</def> <mark>[U.S.]</mark>

<h1>Coppering</h1> <Xpage=319>

<hw>Cop"per*ing</hw>, <tt>n.</tt> <p><b>1.</b> <def>The act of covering with copper.</def>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>An envelope or covering of copper.</def>

<h1>Copperish</h1> <Xpage=319>

<hw>Cop"per*ish</hw>, <tt>a.</tt> <def>Containing, or partaking of the nature of, copper; like copper; <as>as, a <ex>copperish</ex> taste</as>.</def>

<h1>Copper-nickel</h1> <Xpage=319>

<hw>Cop"per-nick`el</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <fld>(Min.)</fld> <def>Nicolite.</def>

<h1>Copper-nose</h1> <Xpage=319>

<hw>Cop"per-nose</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>A red nose.</def>

<i>Shak.</i>

<h1>Copperplate</h1> <Xpage=319>

<hw>Cop"per*plate</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <sd>(a)</sd> <def>A plate of polished copper on which a design or writing is engraved.</def> <sd>(b)</sd> <def>An impression on paper taken from such a plate.</def>

<note>&hand; 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.</note>

<cs><col>Copperplate press</col>. <cd>See <cref>Plate press</cref>, under <er>Plate</er>.</cd></cs>

<h1>Coppersmith</h1> <Xpage=319>

<hw>Cop"per*smith</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>One whose occupation is to manufacture copper utensils; a worker in copper.</def>

<h1>Copper works</h1> <Xpage=319>

<hw>Cop"per works</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>. <def>A place where copper is wrought or manufactured.</def>

<i>Woodward.</i>

<h1>Copperworm</h1> <Xpage=319>

<hw>Cop"per*worm</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <fld>(Zo\'94l.)</fld> <sd>(a)</sd> <def>The teredo; -- so called because it injures the bottoms of vessels, where not protected by copper.</def> <sd>(b)</sd> <def>The ringworm.</def>

<h1>Coppery</h1> <Xpage=319>

<hw>Cop"per*y</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <def>Mixed with copper; containing copper, or made of copper; like copper.</def>

<h1>Coppice</h1> <Xpage=319>

<hw>Cop"pice</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[OF. <ets>copeiz</ets>, fr. <ets>coper</ets>, <ets>couper</ets>, to cut, F. <ets>couper</ets>, fr. <ets>cop</ets>, <ets>coup</ets>, <ets>colp</ets>, a blow, F. <ets>coup</ets>, L. <ets>colaphus</ets>, fr. G. <?/. Cf. <er>Copse</er>, and cf. <er>Coup<?/</er>, <er>Coupee</er>.]</ety> <def>A grove of small growth; a thicket of brushwood; a wood cut at certain times for fuel or other purposes. See <er>Copse</er>.</def>

<blockquote>The rate of <b>coppice</b> lands will fall, upon the discovery of coal mines. <i>Locke.</i></blockquote>

<h1>Coppin</h1> <Xpage=319>