COPPERHEAD

n.

2 definitions — Webster’s Dictionary (1828)


1.
n.

A poisonous American serpent (Ancistrodon conotortrix), closely allied to the rattlesnake, but without rattles; -- called also copper-belly, and red viper.

2.
n.

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


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