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Consisting of copper or resembling copper; coppery.

Of, pertaining to, or derived from, copper; containing copper; -- said of those compounds of copper in which this element is present in its lowest proportion.

Containing copper; as, cupriferous silver.

The red oxide of copper; red copper; an important ore of copper, occurring massive and in isometric crystals.

(Crystalloq.) A solid related to a tetrahedron, and contained under twelve equal triangles.

Of, pertaining to, or derived from, copper; containing copper; -- said of those compounds of copper in which this element is present in its highest proportion.

Copper.

Having or bearing cupeles; cupuliferous.

A cuplet or little cup, as the acorn; the husk or bur of the filbert, chestnut, etc.

the chestnut are examples, -- trees bearing a smooth, solid nut inclosed in some kind of cup or bur; bearing, or furnished with, a cupule.

A subdivision at the base of the cretaceous formation in Western North America; -- so named from the region where the strata were first studied.

The title of the eldest son of the king of France, and heir to the crown. Since the revolution of 1830, the title has been discontinued.

The title of the wife of the dauphin.

Tenfold. [R.]

The division of that which is morphologically one organ into two or more, as the division of an organ of a plant into a pair or cluster.

To make poor; to impoverish. Liming does not depauperate; the ground will last long, and bear large grain. Mortimer. Humility of mind which depauperates the spirit. Jer. Taylor.

To free from paupers; to rescue from poverty. [R.]

Coupled without intermediate connections, as an engine and a dynamo.

Disruption.

The state of being unemployed; want of occupation. [R.]