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To confine in a cage; to coop up. Shak.

Final; ultimate. "Eventual success." Cooper.

To hollow out; to form cavity or hole in; to make hollow by cutting, scooping, or digging; as, to excavate a ball; to excavate the earth.

The act of excavating, or of making hollow, by cutting, scooping, or digging out a part of a solid mass.

tic plant, with long, ensiform leaves, belonging to either of the genera Iris and Acorus. Cooper's flag, the cat-tail (Typha latifolia), the long leaves of which are placed between the staves of barrels to make the latter water-tight. -- Corn flag. See under 2d Corn. -- Flag broom, a coarse of broom, originally made…

about which kindling wood is gathered in the morning. -- Gathering hoop, a hoop used by coopers to draw together the ends of barrel staves, to allow the hoops to be slipped over them. -- Gathering peat. (a) A piece of peat used as a gathering coal, to preserve a fire. (b) In Scotland, a fiery peat which was sent rou…

A chisel, with a hollow or semicylindrical blade, for scooping or cutting holes, channels, or grooves, in wood, stone, etc.; a similar instrument, with curved edge, for turning wood.

One who hoops casks or tubs; a cooper.

e, affecting the internal substance of the horn. -- Horn drum, a wheel with long curved scoops, for raising water. -- Horn lead (Chem.), chloride of lead. -- Horn maker, a maker of cuckolds. [Obs.] Shak. -- Horn mercury. (Min.) Same as Horn quicksilver (below). -- Horn poppy (Bot.), a plant allied to the poppy (Gl…

A tool used by coopers for smoothing and chamfering rheir work, especially the inside of casks.

A chest, box, coffer, bin, coop, or the like, in which things may be stored, or animals kept; as, a grain hutch; a rabbit hutch.

To confine in, or as in, a cage; to coop up. [Written also encage.] "Incaged birds." Shak.

Institute of Technology; also, a building owned or occupied by such an institute; as, the Cooper Institute.

e box on runners which are in one piece with the poles that form the thills. [U.S.] J. F. Cooper.

mall wooden mess tub; -- a name given by sailors to one in which they receive their food. Cooper.

Formed or pronounced by the cooperation of the lips and teeth, as f and v. -- n.

, To enter in a ship's log book; as, to log the miles run. J. F. Cooper.

A cage for hawks while mewing; a coop for fattening fowls; hence, any inclosure; a place of confinement or shelter; -- in the latter sense usually in the plural. Full many a fat partrich had he in mewe. Chaucer. Forthcoming from her darksome mew. Spenser. Violets in their secret mews. Wordsworth.

nly wooded space, without undergrowth, in the midst of a forest; as, oak openings. [U.S.] Cooper.

The panther, or puma. [A form representing an illiterate pronunciation, U. S.] J. F. Cooper.