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Having a bottom made of copper, as a tin boiler or other vessel, or sheathed with copper, as a ship.

Faced or covered with copper; as, copper-faced type.

Fastened with copper bolts, as the planks of ships, etc.; as, a copper-fastened ship.

Nicolite.

A red nose. Shak.

Green vitriol, or sulphate of iron; a green crystalline substance, of an astringent taste, used in making ink, in dyeing black, as a tonic in medicine, etc. It is made on a large scale by the oxidation of iron pyrites. Called also ferrous sulphate.

odon conotortrix), closely allied to the rattlesnake, but without rattles; -- called also copper-belly, and red viper.

The act of covering with copper.

Containing, or partaking of the nature of, copper; like copper; as, a copperish taste.

A plate of polished copper on which a design or writing is engraved.

One whose occupation is to manufacture copper utensils; a worker in copper.

he teredo; -- so called because it injures the bottoms of vessels, where not protected by copper.

Mixed with copper; containing copper, or made of copper; like copper.

owth; a thicket of brushwood; a wood cut at certain times for fuel or other purposes. See Copse. The rate of coppice lands will fall, upon the discovery of coal mines. Locke.

A cop of thread.

ing in a conical shape; specifically, a hill rising to a point. A low cape, and upon it a copple not very high. Hakluyt.

Cupel dust. [Obs.] Powder of steel, or copple dust. Bacon.

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

Rising to a point; conical; copped. [Obs.] Woodward.

A cobblestone. [Obs.]