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CONVEYER-CONVOCATION.

CONVEYER, kon-va'ur, s. One who carries or transmits anything from one place or person to another; that by which anything is conveyed; a juggler; an impostor; a thief.

CONVICINITY, kon-ve-sin'e-te, s. Neighbourhood; nearness; vicinity.

CONVICT, kon'vikt, s. A person cast at the bar;
one found guilty of a crime, charged either by the
verdict of a jury or other legal decision.
CONVICT, kon-vikt', v. a. (convinco, Lat.) To
prove guilty; to detect in guilt; to confute; to
discover to be false; to show by proof or evidence;
to destroy; to overpower.-Obsolete in the last
two senses.

So, by a roaring tempest on the flood,
A whole armado of convicted sail

Is scatter'd and disjoin'd from fellowship.

Shaks.

Past part. of the verb for Convicted; detected in guilt. CONVICTION, kon-vik'shun, s. Detection of guilt;

the act of finding or proving a person guilty of an offence, charged by a legal tribunal; the act of convincing; confutation; the act of forcing others by argument to allow a position; the state of being convinced.

CONVICTIVE, kon-vik'tiv, a. Having the power of convincing.-Seldom used.

CONVICTIVELY, kon-vik'tiv-le, ad. In a convincing

manner.

CONVINCE, kon-vins', v. a. (convinco, Lat.) To persuade or make sensible of by satisfactory evidence; to force a person by argument to acknowledge an error; to convict; to prove guilty of; to evince; to vindicate: to overpower.-Obsolete in the last three senses.

When Duncan is asleep, his two chamberlains
Will I, with wine and wassail, so convince,
That memory, the warder of the brain,
Shall be a fume.-Shaks.

CONVINCEMENT, kon-vins'ment, s. The act of convincing. Seldom used.

CONVINCER, kon-vin'sur, s. The person or thing

that convinces or makes manifest. CONVINCIBLE, kon-vin'se-bl, a. Capable of conviction; capable of being disproved or detected. CONVINCING, kon-vin'sing, a. Persuading by evidence.

CONVINCINGLY, kon-vin'sing-le, ad. In a manner to leave no room for doubt or dispute; in a manner to produce conviction. CONVINCINGNESS, kon-vin'sing-nes, s. The power of convincing.

CONVITIOUS, kon-vish'us, a. (convitior, Lat.) Reproachful.-Obsolete.

CONVIVE, kon-vive', v. a. (convivo, Lat.) To entertain; to feast.-Obsolete.

First, all you peers of Greece, go to my tent,
There in the full convive we.-Shaks.

CONVIVIAL, kon-viv ́e-al, a. (convivialis, Lat.) Re-
lating to a feast or entertainment; festal; jovial;
social.
CONVOCATE, kon'vo-kate, v. a. (convoco, Lat.) To
convoke; to call together; to summon to an as-
sembly.
CONVOCATION, kon-vo-ka'shun, s. The act of call-
ing to an assembly; an assembly; an assembly
of the clergy for consultation upon ecclesiastical
affairs. In England, such an assembly is sum-
moned during the sittings of parliament, and con-
sists of an upper and lower house, the bishops

CONVOKE-CONVULSIONARY.

occupying the former, and the inferior clergy the latter; the term is also applied to an academical assembly, in which the general business of the university is transacted. CONVOKE, kon-voke', v. a. To call together; to summon to an assembly. CONVOLUTA, kon-vo-lu'ta, s. (convolvo, I roll together, Lat.) In Anatomy, the upper and lower turbinated bones of the nose. CONVOLUTE, kon'vo-lute, a. (convolutus, Lat.) CONVOLUTED, kon'vo-lu-ted, In Natural History, rolled up; rolled together, or over each other. CONVOLUTION, kon-vo-lu'shun, s. The act of rolling anything upon itself; the state of being rolled upon itself, or winding one thing on another. Convolutions, in Anatomy, the turnings and windings of the brain; the foldings of the small intestines. CONVOLVE, kon-volv', v. a. (convolvo, Lat.) To roll together; to roll one part upon another. CONVOLVULACEÆ, kon-vol-vu-la'se-e, s. (convol rulus, one of the genera.) A natural order of Exogens, consisting of herbaceous plants, usually twining and milky, smooth, or with a simple pubescence, and having showy flowers expanding under the influence of sunshine; calyx persistent, five-cleft; corolla monopetalous, and usually companulate, hypogenous, regular, deciduous; the limb five-lobed, and generally plaited; stamens five, inserted into the base of the corolla, and alternating with its lobes; ovarium with two or four cells; styles two; stigmas thick, and capitate; disk annular, and hypogenous; capsule with one to four cells. It is classed by Lindley in his Solanal alliance, between Cordiacea and Cuscutaceæ. CONVOLVULUS, kon-vol'vu-lus, s. (convolvo, I entwine, Lat.) An extensive genus of herbs or sub-shrubs: Type of the order Convolvulaceæ. C. arvensis, the only British species, is a very common plant, forming an almost unconquerable weed, from the root creeping extensively under ground; its flowers are sweet-scented. CONVOY, kon'voy, s. A protecting force, accompanying by sea or land. In Marine affairs. one or more ships of war employed to attend and protect merchant ships from pirates, or a common enemy in a time of war. On land, a detachment of troops employed to guard any supply of men, money, ammunition, provisions, stores, &c.; the act of attending as a defence; conveyance.--Obsolete in the last sense.

Sister, as the winds give benefit, And convoy is assistant, do not sleep, But let me hear from you.-Shaks. CONVOY, kon-voy', v. a. (convoyer, Fr.) To accompany for protection, either by land or sea. CONVULSE, kon-vuls', v. a. (convulsus, Lat.) To give an irregular and involuntary motion to the body; to affect by irregular, spasmodic, or violent

action.

CONVULSION, kon-vul'shun, s. An involuntary contraction of the fibres and muscles, causing a preternatural distortion of the body and limbs; any irregular and violent motion; tumult; commotion; disturbance. In Pathology, a writhing and agitation of the limbs, accompanied in general with violent and involuntary action of the muscles, induced by irritation of some portion of the nervous systein.

CONVULSIONARY, kon-vul'shun-ar-e, a. Relating

to convulsions.

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CONY.-See Coney.

COST-BURROW.-See Coney-burrow CONY-CATCH, kon'ne-katsh, v. a. To cheat; to bite; to trick.-A cant word among thieves. I have matter in my head against you, and against your cong-catching rascals.-Shaks.

CONY-CATCHER, kon'ne-katsh'ur, s. A thief; a cheat; a sharper.-Obsolete. CONTZA, ko-ni'za, s. (konyza, from konops, a gnat, Gr. being supposed useful in banishing fleas and guats.) Fleabane, a genus of Composite plants, which the involucre is roundish and imbricated; receptacle naked; florets of the ray three-cleft; pappas rough: Tribe, Conyzeæ. CONTZEE, ko-ni'ze-e, s. A tribe of Composite plants, partaking of the same general characters as the genus Conyza.

Coo, koo, . n. To cry as a dove or pigeon.

CoorsG, kooing, 8. Invitation, as the note of the dore

COOK, kook, s. (coc, Sax. kok, Dut. coquus, Lat.) Ose whose occupation is to dress and prepare victuals for the table;-v. a. (coquo, Lat.) to prepare and dress victuals for the table; to prepare for any purpose; to throw ;-(obsolete in the last ;-. n. to make the noise of the cuckoo. Arciently written couk, as in the old Scottish poem of the Cherrie and Slae, The cuckow couks.' In Ichthyology, the English name of Labrus coquus, s British fish, with a purple back and yellow belly: it is twelve inches in length. COOKERY, kook'ur-e, s. The art of dressing or preparing victuals for the table.

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COOKIA, kook'e-a, s. (in honour of the celebrated Captain Cook.) The Wampas-tree, a genus of emall trees; the fruit of C. punctata, or Dotted wampee-tree, about the size of a pigeon's egg, is old in the Canton markets. It is rather acrid, but sweet: Order, Aurantiaceæ.

COOK-ROOM, kook'room, s. A room in which provisions are prepared for the ship's crew; a room for cooking.

COOL, kool, a. (col, Sax. koel, Dut.) Somewhat cold; approaching to cold; not zealous; not ardent or angry; not fond; deliberate; indifferent; -8. freedom from heat; soft and refreshing; coldness; moderate temperature;-v. a. (colian, Sax. koelen, Dut.) to make cool; to allay heat; to quiet passion; to calm anger; to moderate wal; to render indifferent;-v. n. to become less hot; to become less warm with regard to passion, zeal, or inclination.

COOLER, kool'lur, 8. A shallow vessel, exposing great surface, used by brewers and distillers for cooling worts; that which has the quality of cooling, or abating excitement; a vessel in which liquors or substances are cooled.

COOL-HEADED, kool'hed-ed, a. Having a temper free from excitement or passion. COOLISH, kool'lish, a. Approaching to cold. COOLLY, kool'le, ad. Without heat or sharp cold; without passion, ardour, or precipitate haste; in

a cool manner.

COOLNESS, kool'nes, s. Gentle cold; a moderate or mild degree of cold; want of ardour or affection; disinclination; freedoin from passion.

COOLY-COOT-FOOT.

COOLY, kool'le, s. An East Indian road porter. Cooм, koom, s. (cambouis, Fr.) Soot that gathers over an oven's mouth; also the black greasy substance which exudes from the naves of carriage wheels. In Scotland, the term is applied to soot and the dust of coal.

COOMB, koom, s. (derivation doubtful.) A dr COMB, measure containing four bushels. COOP, koop, s. (kuype, Dut.) A barrel; a vessel for the preservation of liquids; a box or cage barred on one side for keeping poultry; a pen for animals; a tumbrel or cart enclosed with boards; -v. a. to shut up in a narrow compass; to confine; to cage or put in a coop. COOPEE, koo'pe, s. (coupe, Fr.) A motion in dancing.

COOPER, koo'pur, s. One whose occupation is to make barrels, tubs, &c.

COOPERAGE, koo'pur-idj, s. The place or workshop where cooper's work is done; the price for cooper's work.

CO-OPERATE, ko-op ́er-ate, v. n. (co-operer, Fr.) To labour jointly with another to the same end; to act together or concur in producing the same end.

Co-OPERATION, ko-op-er-a'shun, 8. The act of contributing or concurring to the same end. Co-OPERATIVE, ko-op'er-ay-tiv, a. Promoting the same end by joint endeavour. Co-OPERATOR, ko-op'er-ay-tur, s. One who unites his endeavours with others to promote the same end. COOPERIA, koo-pe're-a, s. A genus of plants: Order, Amaryllidaceæ.

CO-OPTATE, ko-op'tate, v. a. (co-opto, Lat.) To choose. Obsolete. CO-OPTATION, ko-op-ta'shun, s. Adoption; assumption.

Co-ORDINATE, ko-awr'de-nate, a. (con, together, and ordinatus, placed in order, Lat.) Holding the same rank; being of equal order; not being subordinate.

CO-ORDINATELY, ko-awr'de-nate-le, ad. In the same rank or relation; without subordination. CO-ORDINATENESS, ko-awr'de-nate-nes,s. The state of being co-ordinate; equality of order and rank. CO-ORDINATES, ko-awr'de-nayts, s. pl. In Analytical Geometry, the mean lines, angles, &c. to which points under consideration are referred, and by means of which their position is determined. Co-ordinates either determine the position of a point in space or in a plane, which is understood to contain all the figures under consideration. They determine position either by straight lines only, or by a straight line and angle: in the latter case they are termed polar co-ordinates. Co-ORDINATION, ko-awr-de-na'shun, s. The state of holding equal rank, or of standing in the same relation to something higher; collateralness. Coor, koot, s. In Ornithology, the English name of the genus Fulica. The common coot, Fulica atra, is about eighteen inches long; irides red · legs greenish; the garter yellow. It makes its nest of flags on the margin of lakes, and lays from six to fourteen eggs, which are white, tinged, and spotted with white: Family, Raillidæ. COOT-FOOT, koot'fut, s. In Ornithology, the common name of the genus Lobipes. The red coot, L. hyperboreus, breeds in several small lakes in Orkney. The crown and nape over the eye, and

COP-COPE.

sides of the breast, are of a deep ash-grey colour; sides and front of the neck reddish; eggs olive, with crowded black spots. In Orkney it is called the water-snipe.

Cor, kop, s. (Saxon, kop, Dut.) The head; the top of anything; cob-castle, properly cop-castle, a castle on a hill; a tuft on the head of birds. COPAIBA, ko-pa'ba, s. The copaiba or capivi CAPIVI, ka-piv'e, balsam is an oily resinous exudation from the South American tree, Copaifera officinalis; as a drug it is used as a diuretic, &c.

COPAIFERA, ko-pay-if'er-a, s. (copaiba, the Brazilian name for the balsam of capivi, and fero, I bear, Lat.) The balsam of the Capivi-tree, a genus of Leguminous trees, natives of the Spanish West Indian Islands and South America: Tribe, Cassiex.

COPAL, ko'pal, s. (an American name given to clear guns.) A colourless or transparent, or nearly transparent resin, slightly yellow, obtained from the Mexican plant Rhus copallinum, and from Elæocarpus copaliferus, a native of the East Indies. Copal varnish is prepared by heating eight ounces of oil of turpentine in a matrass, with the heat of a salt-water bath; as soon as this reaches the boiling point, an ounce and a half of copal, reduced to powder, is thrown in, and the vessel kept in a state of circular motion.

COPALCHE BARK, ko-palsh' burk, s. One of the Mexican names for the bark of Croton pseudochina, a variety of the well-known bark and tonic drug, Cascarilla.-Which see. COPALINE, kop'a-lin, s. A peculiar substance discovered in copal.

COPAL-TREE, ko'pal-tre, s. The Valeria Indica, a tall tree, a native of Malabar, called in the Bidinose country the Dammer-tree. When wounded it discharges a clear pellucid resin, acrid and bitter to the taste, which after a time becomes yellow, and brittle like glass, forming a kind of copal, by which name it is generally known in India. The purest specimens of the gum are made into ornaments, termed amber, to which it bears a strong external resemblance.

COPEMAN-COPPER.

thing which is spread over the head, as the concave of the sky, or the archwork over an entrance; also, the name of an ancient tribute due to the king or lord of the soil out of certain lead mines in Derbyshire;—v. a. to cover as with a cope; to contend with; to oppose; to embrace; to reward; to give in return.-Obsolete in the last three

senses.

Three thousand ducats due unto the Jew,

We freely cope your courteous pains withal.- Shaks.

-v. n. to contend; to struggle; to strive; to encounter; to interchange kindness or sentiments. COPEMAN, kope'man, s. A chapman.-Obsolete.

He would have sold his part of paradise
For ready money, had he met a copemun.-
Ben Jonson.

COPERNICAN, ko-per'ne-kan, aho Relating to the astronomical system of Copernicus.

COPERNICIA, kop-er-nish'e-a, s. (in memory of the
astronomer Copernicus.) A genus of plants:
Order, Palmacex.
COPESMATE, kops'mate, s.

-Obsolete.

A companion or friend.

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Misshapen time, copesmate of ugly night.-Shaks. COPESTONE, kop'stone, s. Head or topstone. CoPHEAS, kof'e-as, or ko'fe-as, s. (kophos, Gr.) genus of Suarian reptiles: Family, Scincoida. COPHIAS, ko'fe-as, s. (kophos, deaf, or senseless, Gr.) A genus of venomous serpents, in which the tail is simple; the head large, broad, subtriangular, and covered with scales; the subcaudal plates double: Family, Crotalida. COPHOSIS, ko-fo'sis, s. (kophon, deaf, Gr.) Pathology, deafness. COPING, ko'ping, s.

8.

In

In Architecture, the upper

covering or top course of a wall. COPIER, kop'e-ur, One who copies the writCOPYIST, kop'e-ist, ings of another; a transcriber; an imitator; a plagiary.

COPIOUS, ko'pe-us, a. (copiosus, Lat.) Plentiful; abundant; exuberant; in great quantities; abounding in words or images; not barren; not con

cise.

COPIOUSLY, ko'pe-us-le, ad. dantly; in great quantities; conciseness; diffusely. COPIOUSNESS, ko'pe-us-nes, s.

Plentifully abunwithout brevity or

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COPARCENARY, ko-păr'se-na-re, s. (con, and particeps, Lat.) In Law, an estate is said to be in Plenty; when it descends from an ancestor to coparcenary dance; great quantity; diffusion; exuberance of style.

two or more persons. COPARCENER, ko-păr ́se-nur, s. (con, and particeps, a partner, Lat.) A coheir; one who has an equal portion in the inheritance of an ancestor. COPARCENY.-See Coparcenary. COPARTMENT.-See Compartment. COPARTNER, ko-părt'nur, s. (co, and partner.) One who has a share in some common stock or business; one equally concerned; a sharer; a partner; a partaker. COPARTNERSHIP, ko-părt'nur-ship, s. Joint concern in business; the state of bearing an equal part, or possessing an equal share. COPARTNERY, ko-part'nur-e, s. Copartnership. COPATAIN, ko'pa-tane, a. High raised; pointed.

Obsolete.

Oh, fine villain! a silken doublet. a velvet hose, a scarlet cloak, and a copatain hat,—Shaks. COPATRIOT, ko-pa'tre-ot, s. A joint or fellowpatriot.

COPE, kope, s. (cuppe, Sax.) A sacerdotal cloak or vestment worn in sacred ministrations; any- 1

COPLAND, kop'land, s. A piece of ground terminating in an acute angle. COPLANT, ko-plant', v. a. To plant together. COPORTION, ko-pore'shun, s. Equal share.-Obsolete.

COPPED, kop'ped, a. Rising to a point or COPPLED, kop'pld, Shead.

COPPER, kop'pur, s. (koper, Dut. cuprum, Lat. a name said to be derived from the island of Cyprus.) A metal of a reddish colour, and capable of receiving a good polish; when rubbed it emits a disagreeable smell. Its preparations are all poisonous. Copper is malleable in both the hot and cold states, and can be beat into very thin plates. Native copper consists of 97.8 per cent. of pure copper, with a trace of gold and iron. It is of a reddishyellow colour, with a tinge of brown; often tarnished black externally. It occurs in cubical and octahedral crystals; often in macules; also capillary, dentritic, or in thin plates filling crevices, and

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COPPER.

massive: when isolated and rubbed it acquires treous electricity: sp. gr. 8.5-8.9; its equivalet, 31.6; symbol, Cu.

The chemical compounds of copper and their fore are as follow:

Red or Dinoxide,..

Black or Protoxide,....

Superoxide,..
Chloride,.

Dichloride,..........

Diniodide,

Disulphuret,.
Sulphuret,.......
Triphosphuret,

2Cu+0 Cu + O Cu + - 20 Cu C 2Cu CI 2Cu I 2Cu S 3Cu

S

C - 3P

Sabesqui-phosphuret........... Cu + 2P COPPER, Biniphuret of, or Covelline, occurs in black or greenish-blue incrustations, having the appearance of spiders' webs; deposited round the faneroles of the crater of Mount Vesuvius. It ecosists of copper, 66; and sulphur, 32. COPPER, Black; Copper Black, or Melaconise, is of a black or blackish-brown colour, friable and hea avy; never crystalized. It consists of copper, 79.83; and oxygen, 20.17.

COFFER, Blue; Azurite, Azure Copper Ore, or Prismatic Azure Malachite, is of an azure or BerTim-blue colour, with sometimes a tinge of black. It occurs crystalized in a great variety of forms, and consists of deutoxide of copper, 70; carbonic acid, 24; water, 6: sp. gr. 3.5-3.77. COPPER, Emerald-See Dioptase. COFFEE, Grey; Tetrahedral Copper Glance, or Panabase, is of a steel-grey or iron-black colour, and contains about 40 per cent. of copper, and variable quantities of arsenic, iron, sulphur, silver, and socetimes antimony: sp. gr. 4.4-5.2. Copper pyrites, the most abundant ore of copper, is of a brass-yellow colour, rather deeper than that of iron pyrites, from which it is easily distinguished by its yielding to the knife. The crystals are tetrahedrons, having the solid angles replaced. COFFER, Green Carbonate of, or Fibrous Malachite, is of various shades of green, and occurs in slender fbres, which are sometimes fasiculated, and sometimes stellated. It contains about 70 per cent. of copper, 20 of carbonic acid, and 8 or 9 of water. COPPER, Hydrous Phosphate of, occurs both massive and crystalized. The colour of the massive vaneties is emerald-green, striated, with blackishgreen. The crystals are generally dull, and of a blackish-green colour externally, and, by transmitted light, emerald green. It consists of phosphoric acid, 21.687; oxide of copper, 62.847; water, 15.454: sp. gr. 4.2-4.3. COPPER, Muriate of.-See Atacamite.

COPPER, Octahedral Arseniate of, or Lenticular Copper Ore, is of a sky-blue, smalt-blue, deep grass, or verdigris-green colour, and is crystalized in obtuse rectangular prisms. It consists of arsenic acid, 49.00; oxide of copper, 14.00; and water, 35.00. A specimen analyzed by Wachtbacher contained oxide of copper, 35.19; arsenic, 20.79; water, 22.24; alumina, 8.03; oxide of iron, 3.41; phosphoric acid, 3.61; silica, 4.04. COPPER, Oblique Prismatic Arseniate of, or Radiated Acicular Olivenite, is of a bluish-black, passing into a deep black colour; occurs, though rarely, in oblique rhomboidal prisms, often transparent, and of a beautiful greenish-blue colour by transmitted light. It is composed of oxide of

COPPER.

copper, 54; arsenic acid, 30; water, 16; sp. gr. 4.1-4.28.

COPPER, Phosphate of, or Diprismatic Olive Malachite, occurs crystalized, and in radiated masses; externally the crystals are greenish or blackishgreen, resplendent with uneven surfaces. It consists of phosphoric acid, 28.7; oxide of copper, 63.6; water, 7.4.

COPPER PYRITES, Octahedral or variegated, occurs both massive and crystalized, of a copper-red or tombac-brown colour; in the crystalized varieties the latter colour prevails, with an irridescent tarnish, generally blue, sometimes yellow. It contains from 19 to 23 per cent. of sulphur; 7 to 18 per cent. of iron; and from 58 to 61 of copper.

COPPER, Red Oride of, or Octahedral Copper Ore, occurs crystalized in the form of the octahedron and its varieties, and is of a red, sometimes crimson-red colour. It contains about 70 per cent. of copper, and 10 of oxygen; sp. gr. 5.6-6.1. COPPER, Rhomboidal Arseniate of, Prismatic Copper, or Copper Mica, is of a grass-green or emeraldgreen colour. It occurs in six-sided tabular crystals, of which the lateral planes are trapeziums. Its constituents are from 39 to 58 per cent. of oxide of copper; 21 to 43 of arsenic acid; water, 17 to 21; sp. gr. 2.5-2.6. COPPER, Right Prismatic Arseniate of, Prismatic Olive Malachite, Acicular Olivenite, or Acicular Arseniate of Copper, &c., is of an olive-green, pistachio-green, or black-green colour, passing into liver-brown and wood-brown. It occurs in prismatic crystals. Its varieties are capillary or amianthiform arseniate of copper, and hæmatitic or wood arseniate of copper. It is composed of about 60 per cent. of copper, and 40 of arsenic acid, sometimes associated with water and phosphoric acid.

COPPER, Silenuret of, or Berzeline, occurs in masses having an impalpable composition, and of a silverwhite colour. It consists of copper, 64; and silenium, 40.

COPPER, Sulphuret of, Vitreous Copper, or Copper Glance, is of a lead or iron-grey colour. It occurs crystalized in regular six-sided prisms. It contains about 80 per cent. of copper, 12 to 20 of sulphur, and a little iron.

COPPER, Sulphate of, Blue Vitriol, or Cyanose, is of a deep sky-blue colour, passing sometimes into bluish-green; occurs massive, stalactitic, and pulverent. It consists of oxide of copper, 32.13; sulphuric acid, 31.57; water, 36.30. A specimen from Mexico, analyzed by Berthier, contained oxide of copper, 66.2; sulphuric acid, 16.6; water, 17.2. COPPER, Velvet Blue, is a compound of oxide of copper, sulphuric acid, silica, and zinc. It consists of short delicate fibres of a smalt-blue colour, frequently grouped in spherical globules, and produced by the divergement of the capillary crystals from a centre.

COPPER, kop'pur, a. Consisting of copper;—v. a. to cover with copper.

COPPERAS, kop'pur-as, s. (kopparosa, Ital. couperose, Fr.) Sulphate of iron or green vitriol. It crystalizes into transparent rhomboidal prisms, has a strong styptic taste, and reddens vegetable blues.

COPPER BUTTERFLIES, or COPPERS.-See Ly

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COPPERISH-COPROTASIA.

COPPERISH, kop'pur-ish, a. Containing copper; resembling copper. COPPER-NICKEL, kop'pur-nik'el, s. A native arsenuret of nickel, a mineral of a copper colour, found in Westphalia. COPPER-NOSE, kop'pur-noze, s. A red nose.

I had as lieve Helen's golden tongue had commended Troilus for a copper-nose.- Shaks.

COPPERPLATE, kop'pur-plate, s. A plate of copper, flattened, smoothed, and polished, on which designs are engraved.

COPPERSMITH, kop'pur-smith, s. One whose occupation is to construct and manufacture articles from copper.

COPPERY, kop'pur-e, a. Containing copper; made of copper.

COPPICE, kop'pis,) s. (coupiz, Norm.) A wood of Corse, kops, small growth; a place overgrown with short wood; a wood cut at stated times for fuel.

COPSE-COPYRIGHT.

COPSE, kops, v. a. COPSY, kop'se, a. COPTIC, kop'tic, a.

To preserve underwoods.
Having copses.

Relating to the descendants of the ancient Egyptians, called Copts, or Copthi, as distinguished from the Arabians and other inhabitants of modern Egypt;-s. the language of the Copts.

COPTIS, kop'tis, s. (kopto, I cut.) A genus of plants: Order, Ranunculace.

COPTODERA, kop-tod ́e-ra, s. (kopto, I split, dera, the summit or peak, Gr.) A genus of Coleopterous insects: Family, Carabidae.

COPULA, kop'u-la, s. (Latin, a bond or tie.) In Logic, that part of a proposition which affirms or denies the predicate of the subject.

COPULATE, kop'u-late, v. a. (copulo, Lat.) To unite; to conjoin; to link together;-v. n. to come together sexually-a. joined. COPULATION, kop-u-la'shun, s. (copulatio, Lat.) Union of the two sexes; coition.

COPPLE-DUST, kop'pl-dust, s. A powder used in COPULATIVE, kop'u-lay-tiv, a. That unites or

purifying metals.

COPPLE-STONES, kop'pl-stonze, s. Boulders.COBBLE-STONES, kob'bl-stonze,

Which see.

COPRACRATIA, kop-ra-kra'she-a, s. (kopros, excrement, and akrateia, want of command, Gr.) Involuntary discharge of fæces, or excrements. COPRINUS, kop-ri'nus, s. (kopros, Gr.) A genus of Fungi: Order, Hymenomyceti.

COPRIS, kop'ris, s. (kopros, Gr.) A genus of insects, so named from their living and burrowing in dung: Subfamily, Scarabanina, or True Sca

rabs.

COPROBIS, kop'ro-bis, s. (kopros, and bios, COPROBIUS, ko-pro'be-us, life, Gr.) A genus of insects of the Scarab family, which live in dung: Subfamily, Scarabæninæ.

COPROLITE, kopro-lite, s. (kopros, and lithos, a stone, Gr.) The petrified fæces of fishes, reptiles, or other animals. Coprolites occur abundantly in certain formations, such as the Lias and the Coal strata: the former containing those of the fish-lizards of that period, and the latter of the sauroid fishes; the other remains of teeth, scales, &c. are very abundant. COPROLITIC, kop-ro-lit'ik, a. lites; containing coprolites.

Composed of copro

s. (kopros, and

COPROMESIA, kopro-mezhe-4, 8. Men, vomit ing, Gr.) Vomiting of fæces. COPROPHAGA, kop-rof'a-ga, s.(kopros, dung, COPROPHAGANS, kop-rof'a-ganz, and phago, I eat, Gr.) A section of Lamellicorn beetles, so named from their living in and upon the dung of animals.

COPROPHAGOUS, kop-ro-fa'gus, a. (kopros, and phago, I eat, Gr.) Feeding on excrements. COPROPHILUS, kop-ro-fil'us, s. (kopros, and philo, I love, Gr.) A genus of Coleopterous insects: Family, Brachelytra.

COPROPHORIA, kop-ro-fo're-a, s. (kopros, and phoro, I carry away, Gr.) Evacuation of faces. COPROSCLEROSIS, kop-ro-skle-ro'sis, s. (kopros, and skleros, hard, Gr.) Induration of the faces. COPROSMA, kop-ros'ma, s. (kopros, and osme, smell, Gr.) A genus of plants: Order, Cinchona

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couples. Copulative propositions, in Logic, those where the subject and predicate are so linked together, that they may be all severally affirmed or denied one after another; —s. a conjunction; conjunction by marriage.-Obsolete in the last

sense.

COPY, kop'pe, s. (copie, Fr.) A transcript from the architype or original; a single book, or set of books, as a good or fair copy; the autograph; the original; that from which anything is copied; an imitation of an original work, as a picture or statue; abundance; plenty.-Obsolete in the last two senses. Copy, among Letterpress Printers, the manuscript, or original, of a book given to be printed. Copy-book, a book in which copies are written for learners to imitate;r. a. to transcribe; to write after an original; to imitate; to endeavour to resemble; to form after a model; to follow as a pattern;-v. n. to do anything in imitation of something else; to try to resemble. COPYER, kop'pe-ur, s. A transcriber; an imiCOPYIST, kop'pe-ist, S tator. COPYHOLD, kop'pe-holde, s. In Law, a species of customary estate, held by virtue of a copy of court roll; that is, where the tenant's title is evidenced by a copy of the rolls of a manor, made by the steward of a lord's court.

Cornouait, koppe hole dur, s. One who is pos

sessed of land in copyhold.

COPYRIGHT, kop'pe-rite, s. In Law, the right of property in a literary or musical composition vested in an author. The law of copyright gives protection for the period of forty-two years in all cases; but should an author survive the publication of his work forty-two years, the protection still continues during his lifetime, and for seven years after his death. Articles furnished to magazines, reviews, &c., though paid for by the publisher, cannot be published separately without the consent of the author; the right of publishing them, in any form he pleases, reverts to him or his assignees at the end of twenty-eight years from their first appearance, for the remainder of the terms specified for other works. The protection given to authors, by statute, of copyright, is coupled with the condition of presenting five copies of every work, if demanded, to certain public libraries; namely, that of the Bodleian at Oxford, the British Museum, Faculty of Advocates, Edin

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