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One who labors jointly with others to promote the same end. "Coöperators with the truth." Boyle.

Work done by a cooper in making or repairing barrels, casks, etc.; the business of a cooper.

Relating to a cooper; coopered. [Obs.] Coopery vessels made of wood. Holland.

To choose or elect in concert with another. [R.] Each of the hundred was to coöpt three others. Jowett (Thysyd. ).

To choose; to elect; to coöpt. [Obs.] Cockeram.

The act of choosing; selection; choice. [Obs.] The first election and coöptation of a friend. Howell.

A plant of the genus Arum (A. maculatum); the European wake- robin.

A little copper cup in which a diamond is held while being cut.

physical inability or exhaustion, want of nourishment, or the like. "The purple flowers droop." "Above her drooped a lamp." Tennyson. I saw him ten days before he died, and observed he began very much to droop and languish. Swift.

One who, or that which, droops.

In a drooping manner.

See Parovarium.

See Grouper.

A coop or cage for hens.

A ring; a circular band; anything resembling a hoop, as the cylinder (cheese hoop) in which the curd is pressed in making cheese.

One who hoops casks or tubs; a cooper.

epops), having a beautiful crest, which it can erect or depress at pleasure. Called also hoop, whoop. The name is also applied to several other species of the same genus and allied genera.

To inclose in a hoop, or as in a hoop. [R.] Shak.

A silly person. [Obs.] A liripoop, vel lerripoop, a silly, empty creature; an old dotard. Milles. MS. Devon Gloss.

; an eye, as of metal; a staple; a noose; a bight. That the probation bear no hinge, nor loop To hang a doubt on. Shak.