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in form, reaching from the shoulders nearly to the feet, and open in front except at the top, whereit is united by a band or clasp. It is worn in processions and on some other occasions. Piers plowman. A hundred and sixty priests all in their copes. Bp. Burnet.

A created or high-topped crown or head. "Like the copple-crown the lapwing has." T. Randolph. -- Cop"ple-crowned`, a.

The stop which connects the manuals, or the manuals with the pedals; -- called also coupler.

The outer layer of the bark of the cork tree (Quercus Suber), of which stoppers for bottles and casks are made. See Cutose.

s, and, in place of the trumpet, in orchestras. See Cornet-à-piston. (c) A certain organ stop or register.

Any crownlike appendage at the top of an organ.

Of or pertaining to the top of the head or skull.

, an organized division of the military establishment; as, the marine corps; the corps of topographical engineers; specifically, an army corps. A corps operating with an army should consist of three divisions of the line, a brigade of artillery, and a regiment of cavalry. Gen. Upton (U. S. Tactics. )…

A protoplasmic animal cell; esp., such as float free, like blood, lymph, and pus corpuscles; or such as are imbedded in an intercellular matrix, like connective tissue and cartilage corpuscles. See Blood. Virchow showed that the corpuscles of bone are homologous with those of connective tissue. Quain's Anat. Red blood…

se of it [language], though he does not corrupt the fountains of knowledge, . . . yet he stops the pines. Locke.

A flat-topped or convex cluster of flowers, each on its own footstalk, and arising from different points of a common axis, the outermost blossoms expanding first, as in the hawthorn.

f this island is nowhere found among the old and ancient cosmographers. Robynson (More's Utopia).

The brace of the fore-topsail on the leeward side of a vessel.

To strike or drive back or in an opposite direction; to stop by a blow or impulse in front. Dryden.

A check; a stop; a rebuke, or censure to check a reprover.

inal; as, counterfeit antiques; counterfeit coin. "No counterfeit gem." Robinson (More's Utopia).

Adorned with flowers (usually fleurs-de-lis) so divided that the tops appear on one side and the bottoms on the others; -- said of any ordinary.

To chamfer or form a depression around the top of (a hole in wood, metal, etc.) for the reception of the head of a screw or bolt below the surface, either wholly or in part; as, to countersink a hole for a screw.

Chamfered at the top; -- said of a hole.

To bend; to stop; to bow. [Obs.] Then I courbed on my knees. Piers Plowman.