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n. 1. (Naut.) The act or process of daubing a vessel's bottom near the surface of the water with a mixture of tallow, sulphur, and resin, as a temporary protection against worms, after the slime, shells, etc., have been scraped off. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Naut.) Sheathing a vessel with planking over felt. [ 1913 Webster ]

adj. covered with caliche{ 2 }, a hard calcium-carbonate encrusted soil. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

(Min.) The mineral azurite, found in fine crystallization at Chessy, near Lyons; called also chessylite. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Same as Chopine, n. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who, or that which, chops. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Act of cutting by strokes. [ 1913 Webster ]

Chopping block, a solid block of wood on which butchers and others chop meat, etc. --
Chopping knife, a knife for chopping or mincing meat, vegetables, etc.; -- usually with a handle at the back of the blade instead of at the end. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Cf. Chubby. ] Stout or plump; large. [ Obs. ] Fenton. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ See Chop to barter. ] Shifting or changing suddenly, as the wind; also, having tumbling waves dashing against each other; as, a chopping sea. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Cf. Chappy. ] 1. Full of cracks. “Choppy finger.” Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. [ Cf. Chop a change. ] Rough, with short, tumultuous waves; as, a choppy sea. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A rude, rustic fellow. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Boorish; rude. C. Bronté. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ From Cop. ] Rising to a point or head; conical; pointed; crested. Wiseman. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. & v. See Cupel. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ OE. coper (cf. D. koper, Sw. koppar, Dan. kobber, G. kupfer), LL. cuper, fr. L. cuprum for earlier Cyprium, Cyprium aes, i.e., Cyprian brass, fr. Gr. &unr_; of Cyprus (Gr. &unr_;), anciently renowned for its copper mines. Cf. Cypreous. ] 1. A common metal of a reddish color, both ductile and malleable, and very tenacious. It is one of the best conductors of heat and electricity. Symbol Cu. Atomic weight 63.3. It is one of the most useful metals in itself, and also in its alloys, brass and bronze. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ Copper is the only metal which occurs native abundantly in large masses; it is found also in various ores, of which the most important are chalcopyrite, chalcocite, cuprite, and malachite. Copper mixed with tin forms bell metal; with a smaller proportion, bronze; and with zinc, it forms brass, pinchbeck, and other alloys. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A coin made of copper; a penny, cent, or other minor coin of copper. [ Colloq. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

My friends filled my pockets with coppers. Franklin. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. A vessel, especially a large boiler, made of copper. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. pl. Specifically (Naut.), the boilers in the galley for cooking; as, a ship's coppers. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ Copper is often used adjectively, commonly in the sense of made or consisting of copper, or resembling copper; as, a copper boiler, tube, etc. [ 1913 Webster ]

All in a hot and copper sky. Coleridge. [ 1913 Webster ]

It is sometimes written in combination; as, copperplate, coppersmith, copper-colored. [ 1913 Webster ]

Copper finch. (Zool.) See Chaffinch. --
Copper glance, or
Vitreous copper. (Min.) See Chalcocite. --
Indigo copper. (Min.) See Covelline. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Coppered p. pr. & vb. n. Coppering. ] To cover or coat with copper; to sheathe with sheets of copper; as, to copper a ship. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ OE. coperose, F. couperose, fr. (assumed?) L. cuprirosa, equiv. to G. cha`lkanqos, i. e. copper flower, vitriol. See Copper and Rose. ] Green vitriol, or sulphate of iron; a green crystalline substance, of an astringent taste, used in making ink, in dyeing black, as a tonic in medicine, etc. It is made on a large scale by the oxidation of iron pyrites. Called also ferrous sulphate. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ The term copperas was formerly synonymous with vitriol, and included the green, blue, and white vitriols, or the sulphates of iron, copper, and zinc. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. to provide with a copper bottom.
Syn. -- copperbottom. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

2. to bind with a cord, tie with a cord.
Syn. -- cord up. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

a. Having a bottom made of copper, as a tin boiler or other vessel, or sheathed with copper, as a ship. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Faced or covered with copper; as, copper-faced type. [ 1913 Webster ]

a.Fastened with copper bolts, as the planks of ships, etc.; as, a copper-fastened ship. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ From its color. ] 1. (Zool.) A poisonous American serpent (Ancistrodon conotortrix), closely allied to the rattlesnake, but without rattles; -- called also copper-belly, and red viper. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A nickname applied to a person in the Northern States who sympathized with the South during the Civil War. [ U.S. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. The act of covering with copper. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. An envelope or covering of copper. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Containing, or partaking of the nature of, copper; like copper; as, a copperish taste. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Min.) Niccolite. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A red nose. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (a) A plate of polished copper on which a design or writing is engraved. (b) An impression on paper taken from such a plate. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ 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. [ 1913 Webster ]

Copperplate press. See Plate press, under Plate. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One whose occupation is to manufacture copper utensils; a worker in copper. [ 1913 Webster ]

A place where copper is wrought or manufactured. Woodward. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Zool.) (a) The teredo; -- so called because it injures the bottoms of vessels, where not protected by copper. (b) The ringworm. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Mixed with copper; containing copper, or made of copper; like copper. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ OF. copeiz, fr. coper, couper, to cut, F. couper, fr. cop, coup, colp, a blow, F. coup, L. colaphus, fr. Gr. ko`lafos. Cf. Copse, and cf. Coupé, Coupee. ] A grove of small growth; a thicket of brushwood; a wood cut at certain times for fuel or other purposes. See Copse. [ 1913 Webster ]

The rate of coppice lands will fall, upon the discovery of coal mines. Locke. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Coppiced p. pr. & vb. n. Coppicing ] (Forestry) To cause to grow in the form of a coppice; to cut back (as young timber) so as to produce shoots from stools or roots. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

n. [ See Cop. ] A cop of thread. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ A dim. of Cop. ] Something rising in a conical shape; specifically, a hill rising to a point. [ 1913 Webster ]

A low cape, and upon it a copple not very high. Hakluyt. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A created or high-topped crown or head. “Like the copple-crown the lapwing has.” T. Randolph.

-- Cop"ple-crowned` a. [1913 Webster]

a. [ From Copple. ] Rising to a point; conical; copped. [ Obs. ] Woodward. [ 1913 Webster ]

Cupel dust. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Powder of steel, or copple dust. Bacon. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A cobblestone. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. See Copse. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

adj. 1. cut very short; as, her cropped hair. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

2. having an unnecessary portion at the edges cut off; -- of photographs and other two-dimensional images. [ PJC ]

n. 1. One that crops. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A variety of pigeon with a large crop; a pouter. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. (Mech.) A machine for cropping, as for shearing off bolts or rod iron, or for facing cloth. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. A fall on one's head when riding at full speed, as in hunting; hence, a sudden failure or collapse. [ Slang. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To free from obstructions; to clear a passage through. [ Obs. ] Boyle. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Removal of whatever stops up the passages. [ Obs. ] Sir T. Browne. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. & n. (Med.) Deobstruent; aperient. [ Obs. ] Harvey. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ L. dis- + oppilatus, p. p. of oppilare to shut up. ] To open. [ Obs. ] Holland. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. same as doorstop.
Syn. -- doorstop. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

‖n. [ G. ] A spiritual or ghostly double or counterpart; esp., an apparitional double of a living person; a cowalker. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

n. [ D. dooper. ] [ Written also doper. ] An Anabaptist or Baptist. [ Contemptuous ] B. Jonson. [ 1913 Webster ]