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n. [ Gr. &unr_; clear + &unr_; to observe. ] An instrument consisting in part of a differential thermometer. It is used for measuring changes of temperature produced by different conditions of the sky, as when clear or clouded. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Gr. &unr_; true + &unr_; to view. ] An instrument for viewing pictures by means of a lens, so as to present them in their natural proportions and relations. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. altus high + Gr. &unr_; to view. ] An arrangement of lenses and mirrors which enables a person to see an object in spite of intervening objects. Since the early 1900's, most commonly called periscope. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Anamorphosis + -scope. ] An instrument for restoring a picture or image distorted by anamorphosis to its normal proportions. It usually consists of a cylindrical mirror. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

n. [ Gr. &unr_; wind + -scope: cf. F. anémoscope. ] An instrument which shows the direction of the wind; a wind vane; a weathercock; -- usually applied to a contrivance consisting of a vane above, connected in the building with a dial or index with pointers to show the changes of the wind. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Angio- + -scope. ] An instrument for examining the capillary vessels of animals and plants. Morin. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Gr. 'an priv. + 'orqo`s straight + -scope. ] (Physics) An optical toy for producing amusing figures or pictures by means of two revolving disks, on one of which distorted figures are painted. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖ n. [ L., fr. Gr. &unr_; a cutting off, fr. &unr_; to cut off; &unr_; from + &unr_; to cut. ] 1. The cutting off, or omission, of the last letter, syllable, or part of a word. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Med.) A cutting off; abscission. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Astro- + scope. ] An old astronomical instrument, formed of two cones, on whose surface the constellations were delineated. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. auris + -scope. ] (Med.) An instrument for examining the condition of the ear. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Gr. ba`ros weight + -scope: cf. F. baroscope. ] Any instrument showing the changes in the weight of the atmosphere; also, less appropriately, any instrument that indicates or foreshadows changes of the weather, as a deep vial of liquid holding in suspension some substance which rises and falls with atmospheric changes. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Gr. bi`os life + -scope. ] 1. A view of life; that which gives such a view. [ 1913 Webster ]

Bagman's Bioscope: Various Views of Men and Manners. [ Book Title. ] W. Bayley (1824). [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

2. An animated picture machine for screen projection; a cinematograph (which see); an archaic term replaced by movie projector. [ archaic ] [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

3. a South African movie theater. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. [ Gr. &unr_; thunder and lightning + -scope. ] An instrument or apparatus employed in the ancient mysteries to imitate thunder and lightning. T. Moore. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Gr. &unr_; color + -scope. ] An instrument for showing the optical effects of color. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Gr. &unr_;, &unr_;, color + -scope. ] (Astron.) A reflecting telescope, part of which is made to rotate eccentrically, so as to produce a ringlike image of a star, instead of a point; -- used in studying the scintillation of the stars. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Gr. &unr_; time + -scope. ] An instrument for measuring minute intervals of time; used in determining the velocity of projectiles, the duration of short-lived luminous phenomena, etc. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. To form a cope or arch; to bend or arch; to bow. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Some bending down and coping toward the earth. Holland. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ A doublet of cape. See Cape, Cap. ] 1. A covering for the head. [ Obs. ] Johnson. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Anything regarded as extended over the head, as the arch or concave of the sky, the roof of a house, the arch over a door. “The starry cope of heaven.” Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. An ecclesiastical vestment or cloak, semicircular in form, reaching from the shoulders nearly to the feet, and open in front except at the top, where it is united by a band or clasp. It is worn in processions and on some other occasions. Piers plowman. [ 1913 Webster ]

A hundred and sixty priests all in their copes. Bp. Burnet. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. An ancient tribute due to the lord of the soil, out of the lead mines in Derbyshire, England. [ 1913 Webster ]

5. (Founding) The top part of a flask or mold; the outer part of a loam mold. Knight. De Colange. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. (Falconry) To pare the beak or talons of (a hawk). J. H. Walsh. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. [ imp. & p. p. Coped p. pr. & vb. n. Coping. ] [ OE. copen, coupen, to buy, bargain, prob. from D. koopen to buy, orig., to bargain. See Cheap. ] 1. To exchange or barter. [ Obs. ] Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To encounter; to meet; to have to do with. [ 1913 Webster ]

Horatio, thou art e'en as just a man
As e'er my conversation coped withal. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. To enter into or maintain a hostile contest; to struggle; to combat; especially, to strive or contend on equal terms or with success; to match; to equal; -- usually followed by with. [ 1913 Webster ]

Host coped with host, dire was the din of war. Philips. [ 1913 Webster ]

Their generals have not been able to cope with the troops of Athens. Addison. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. 1. To bargain for; to buy. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To make return for; to requite; to repay. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

three thousand ducats due unto the Jew,
We freely cope your courteous pains withal. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. To match one's self against; to meet; to encounter. [ 1913 Webster ]

I love to cope him in these sullen fits. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

They say he yesterday coped Hector in the battle, and struck him down. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A narrow chisel adapted for cutting a groove. Knight. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Russ. kopeika ] A Russian copper coin. See Kopeck. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Clad in a cope. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. pl. [ NL., fr. Gr. &unr_; a rower. ] (Zool.) See Larvalla. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ D. koopman, fr. koopen to buy. See Cope, v. i. Chapman. ] A chapman; a dealer; a merchant. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

He would have sold his part of paradise
For ready money, had he met a copeman. B. Jonson. [ 1913 Webster ]

prop. n. (Geography) The capital city of Denmark. Population (2000) = 1, 339, 395. [ PJC ]

n. [ From Copenhagen, Denmark. ] 1. A sweetened hot drink of spirit and beaten eggs. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

2. A children's game in which one player is inclosed by a circle of others holding a rope. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

a. (Zool.) Of or pertaining to the Copepoda. -- n. One of the Copepoda. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. pl. [ NL., from Gr. &unr_; an oar + -poda. ] (Zool.) An order of Entomostraca, including many minute Crustacea, both fresh-water and marine. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ They have a distinct carapace. The eggs are carried in a pair of external pouches. Some are parasites of fishes. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Pertaining to Copernicus, a Prussian by birth (b. 1473, d. 1543), who taught the world the solar system now received, called the Copernican system. [ 1913 Webster ]

adj. 1. same as copacetic.
Syn. -- copacetic, copasetic. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. An associate or companion; a friend; a partner. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Misshapen time, copesmate of ugly Night. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Arch.) A stone for coping. See Coping. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. an instrument for measuring freezing and melting points. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. [ Cyclone + -scope. ] An apparatus to assist in locating the center of a cyclone. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

n. [ Cyclo- + -scope. ] A machine for measuring at any moment velocity of rotation, as of a wheel of a steam engine. Knight. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Gr. &unr_; wave + -scope. ] (Elec.) Any device for detecting the presence of electric waves. The influence of electric waves on the resistance of a particular kind of electric circuit, on the magnetization of steel, on the polarization of an electrolytic cell, or on the electric condition of a vacuum has been applied in the various cymoscopes. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

n. [ From the inventor, Debus, a French optician + -scope. ] (Opt.) A modification of the kaleidoscope; -- used to reflect images so as to form beautiful designs. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ L., fr. Gr. &unr_; a cutting in two; dia` through + &unr_;. ] (Gram.) Tmesis. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Gr. &unr_; transparent + -scope. ] (Photog.) A dark box constructed for viewing transparent pictures, with or without a lens. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Same as Dichroscope. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Gr. di- = di`s- twice + &unr_; color + &unr_; to view. ] An instrument for examining the dichroism of crystals. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Gr. &unr_; double + &unr_; image + -scope. ] (Astron.) An instrument for determining the time of apparent noon. It consists of two mirrors and a plane glass disposed in the form of a prism, so that, by the reflections of the sun's rays from their surfaces, two images are presented to the eye, moving in opposite directions, and coinciding at the instant the sun's center is on the meridian. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. ebullire to boil up + -scope. ] (Phys. Chem.) An instrument for observing the boiling point of liquids, especially for determining the alcoholic strength of a mixture by the temperature at which it boils. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Gr. &unr_;, &unr_;, sound + -scope. ] (Med.) An instrument for intensifying sounds produced by percussion of the thorax. Knight. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Electro- + -scope: cf. F. électroscope. ] (Physics) An instrument for detecting the presence of electricity, or changes in the electric state of bodies, or the species of electricity present, as by means of pith balls, and the like. [ 1913 Webster ]

Condensing electroscope (Physics), a form of electroscope in which an increase of sensibility is obtained by the use of a condenser. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Endo- + -scope. ] (Med.) An instrument for examining the interior of the body, consisting of a flexible tube with lenses and optical fibers permitting illumination of the interior site to be inspected, and visualization of the interior site from outside the body; it often has small surgical instruments attached to the end and manipulable from the outside, permitting biopsy or surgery. It is used as a non-invasive or minimally invasive tool for diagnosis or treatment, especially in organs having an external opening such as the rectum, the urethra, and the bladder. [ 1913 Webster +PJC ]