Part 2412

<h1>Cop-rose</h1> <Xpage=319>

<hw><hw>Cop-rose`</hw><hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[F. <ets>coprose</ets>, of uncertain origin; cf. D. <ets>klaproos</ets>, <ets>klapperroos</ets>.]</ety> <def>The red, or corn, poppy.</def> <altsp>[Written also <asp>cup-rose</asp>.]</altsp>

<h1>Cops</h1> <Xpage=319>

<hw>Cops</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[AS. <ets>cops</ets>, <ets>cosp</ets>, fetter.]</ety> <def>The connecting crook of a harrow.</def> <mark>[Prov. Eng.]</mark>

<h1>Copse</h1> <Xpage=319>

<hw>Copse</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[Contr. from <ets>coppice</ets>.]</ety> <def>A wood of small growth; a thicket of brushwood. See <er>Coppice</er>.</def>

<blockquote>Near yonder <b>copse</b> where once the garden smiled. <i>Goldsmith.</i></blockquote>

<h1>Copse</h1> <Xpage=319>

<hw>Copse</hw>, <tt>v. t.</tt> <p><b>1.</b> <def>To trim or cut; -- said of small trees, brushwood, tufts of grass, etc.</def>

<i>Halliwell.</i>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>To plant and preserve, as a copse.</def>

<i>Swift.</i>

<h1>Copsewood</h1> <Xpage=319>

<hw>Copse"wood</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>Brushwood; coppice.</def>

<i>Macaulay.</i>

<h1>Copsy</h1> <Xpage=319>

<hw>Cops"y</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <def>Characterized by copses.</def> "<i>Copsy</i> villages." "<i>Copsy</i> banks."

<i>J. Dyer.</i>

<h1>Coptic</h1> <Xpage=319>

<hw>Cop"tic</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <ety>[Abbrev. from L. <ets>Aegyptius</ets> an Egyprian, Gr. <?/, Ar. <ets>kibt\'c6</ets>, pl. <ets>kibt</ets>.]</ety> <def>Of or pertaining to the Copts.</def> -- <def2><tt>n.</tt> <def>The language of the Copts.</def></def2>

<h1>Copts</h1> <Xpage=319>

<hw>Copts</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n. pl.</tt>; <sing>sing. <singw>Copt</singw> <tt>(#)</tt>.</sing> <ety>[See <er>Coptic</er>.]</ety> <fld>(Etnol.)</fld> <p><b>1.</b> <def>An Egyptian race thought to be descendants of the ancient Egyptians.</def>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>The principal sect of Christians in Egypt and the valley of the Nile.</def>

<note>&hand; they belong to the Jacobite sect of Monophysite Christians, and for eleven centuries have had possession of the patriarchal chair of Alexandria.</note>

<h1>Copula</h1> <Xpage=319>

<hw>Cop"u*la</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[L., bond, band. See <er>Couple</er>.]</ety> <p><b>1.</b> <fld>(Logic & Gram.)</fld> <def>The word which unites the subject and predicate.</def>

<p><b>2.</b> <fld>(Mus.)</fld> <def>The stop which connects the manuals, or the manuals with the pedals; -- called also <altname>coupler</altname>.</def>

<h1>Copulate</h1> <Xpage=319>