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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.

s the arch or concave of the sky, the roof of a house, the arch over a door. "The starry cope of heaven." Milton.

A narrow chisel adapted for cutting a groove. Knight.

A Russian copper coin. See Kopeck.

Clad in a cope.

See Larvalla.

a merchant. [Obs.] He would have sold his part of paradise For ready money, had he met a copeman. B. Jonson.

A children's game in which one player is inclosed by a circle of others holding a rope.

Of or pertaining to the Copepoda. -- n.

An order of Entomastraca, including many minute Crustacea, both freshwater and marine.

Pertaining to Copernicus, a Prussian by birth (b. 1473, d. 1543), who taught the world the solar system now received, called the Copernican system.

An associate or companion; a friend; a partner. [Obs.] Misshapen time, copesmate of ugly Night. Shak.

A stone for coping. See Coping.

An obsolete name for the cornet-à-piston.

An apparatus to assist in locating the center of a cyclone.

Cyclops; characteristic of the Cyclops; huge; gigantic; vast and rough; massive; as, Cyclopean labors; Cyclopean architecture.

ation in all departments of knowledge, or on a particular department or branch; as, a cyclopedia of the physical sciences, or of mechanics. See Encyclopedia.

Belonging to the circle of the sciences, or to a cyclopedia; of the nature of a cyclopedia; hence, of great range, extent, or amount; as, a man of cyclopedic knowledge.

A maker of, or writer for, a cyclopedia.