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See Copse. [Obs.]

he dried meat of the cocoanut, from which cocoanut oil is expressed. [Written also cobra, copperah, coppra.]

A piece of petrified dung; a fossil excrement.

Containing, pertaining to, or of the nature of, coprolites.

A kind of beetle which feeds upon dung.

Feeding upon dung, as certain insects.

The connecting crook of a harrow. [Prov. Eng.]

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

Brushwood; coppice. Macaulay.

Characterized by copses. "Copsy villages." "Copsy banks." J. Dyer.

Of or pertaining to the Copts. -- n.

ope and patriarch" has jurisdiction over the Abyssinian Church. Since the 7th century the Coptic Church has been so isolated from modifying influences that in many respects it is the most ancient monument of primitive Christian rites and ceremonies. But centuries of subjection to Moslem rule have weakened and degraded…

An Egyptian race thought to be descendants of the ancient Egyptians.

The word which unites the subject and predicate.

Joining subject and predicate; copulative. F. A. March.

The act of coupling or joining; union; conjunction. Wit, you know, is the unexpected copulation of ideas. Johnson.

Serving to couple, unite, or connect; as, a copulative conjunction like "and".

In a copulative manner.

Pertaining to copulation; tending or serving to unite; copulative.

An abundance or plenty of anything. [Obs.] She was blessed with no more copy of wit, but to serve his humor thus. B. Jonson.