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A wood of small growth; a thicket of brushwood. See Coppice. Near yonder copse where once the garden smiled. Goldsmith.

A basket used in coal mines, etc. see Corf.

An alms basket; a vessel to receive gifts of charity; a treasury of the church, where offerings are deposited.

A sculptured basket of flowers; a corbel. [Obs.]

A bracket supporting a superincumbent object, or receiving the spring of an arch. Corbels were employed largely in Gothic architecture.

A basket.

The curved line or flourish at the end of a book or chapter; hence, the end. [R.] Bp. Hacket.

f a single line of posts substituted for the more formal line of sentinels and line of pickets.

acquisition, etc.; to cause the cost, expenditure, relinquishment, or loss of; as, the ticket cost a dollar; the effort cost his life. A d'amond gone, cost me two thousand ducats. Shak. Though it cost me ten nights' watchings. Shak.

A kind of very coarse woolen blanket.

To transfer (as sheets of partly dried pulp) from the wire clotch mold to a felt blanket, for further drying.

A section of a ticket, showing the holder to be entitled to some specified accomodation or service, as to a passage over a designated line of travel, a particular seat in a theater, or the like.

The heart; spirit; temper; disposition. [Obs.] So priketh hem nature in here corages. Chaucer. My lord, cheer up your spirits; our foes are nigh, and this soft courage makes your followers faint. Shak.

e ground or path traversed; track; way. The same horse also run the round course at Newmarket. Pennant.

ite by attractions; to allure; to attract. A well-worn pathway courted us To one green wicket in a privet hedge. Tennyson.

in an hour. -- To cover one's short contracts (Stock Exchange), to buy stock when the market rises, as a dealer who has sold short does in order to protect himself. -- Covering party (Mil.), a detachment of troops sent for the protection of another detachment, as of men working in the trenches. -- To cover into, to…

The fielder in the games of cricket and lacrosse who supports "point."

A wadded covering for a teakettle or other vessel to keep the contents hot.

The basket or apparatus in which, when a line has been made fast to a wrecked ship from the shore, the people are brought off from the wreck. Cat's cradle. See under Cat. -- Cradle hole, a sunken place in a road, caused by thawing, or by travel over a soft spot. -- Cradle scythe, a broad scythe used in a cradle for c…

Dexterity in devising and effecting a purpose; cunning; artifice; stratagem. He taketh the wise in their own craftiness. Job. v. 13.