CPage 412
- English Word Copper Definition A coin made of copper; a penny, cent, or other minor coin of copper.
- English Word Copper Definition A vessel, especially a large boiler, made of copper.
- English Word Copper Definition the boilers in the galley for cooking; as, a ship's coppers.
- English Word Copper Definition To cover or coat with copper; to sheathe with sheets of copper; as, to copper a ship.
- English Word Copper works Definition A place where copper is wrought or manufactured.
- English Word Copper-bottomed Definition Having a bottom made of copper, as a tin boiler or other vessel, or sheathed with copper, as a ship.
- English Word Copper-faced Definition Faced or covered with copper; as, copper-faced type.
- English Word Copper-fastened Definition Fastened with copper bolts, as the planks of ships, etc.; as, a copper-fastened ship.
- English Word Copper-nickel Definition Niccolite.
- English Word Copper-nose Definition A red nose.
- English Word Copperas Definition 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.
- English Word Coppered Definition of Copper
- English Word Copperhead Definition A poisonous American serpent (Ancistrodon conotortrix), closely allied to the rattlesnake, but without rattles; -- called also copper-belly, and red viper.
- English Word Copperhead Definition A nickname applied to a person in the Northern States who sympathized with the South during the Civil War.
- English Word Coppering Definition of Copper
- English Word Coppering Definition The act of covering with copper.
- English Word Coppering Definition An envelope or covering of copper.
- English Word Copperish Definition Containing, or partaking of the nature of, copper; like copper; as, a copperish taste.
- English Word Copperplate Definition A plate of polished copper on which a design or writing is engraved.
- English Word Copperplate Definition An impression on paper taken from such a plate.
- English Word Coppersmith Definition One whose occupation is to manufacture copper utensils; a worker in copper.
- English Word Copperworm Definition The teredo; -- so called because it injures the bottoms of vessels, where not protected by copper.
- English Word Copperworm Definition The ringworm.
- English Word Coppery Definition Mixed with copper; containing copper, or made of copper; like copper.
- English Word Coppice Definition A grove of small growth; a thicket of brushwood; a wood cut at certain times for fuel or other purposes. See Copse.
- English Word Coppin Definition A cop of thread.
- English Word Copple Definition Something rising in a conical shape; specifically, a hill rising to a point.
- English Word Copple dust Definition Cupel dust.
- English Word Copple-crown Definition A created or high-topped crown or head.
- English Word Coppled Definition Rising to a point; conical; copped.