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The top of a thing; the head; a crest. [Obs.] Cop they used to call The tops of many hills. Dra

The red, or corn, poppy. [Written also cup-rose.]

A more or less viscid, vellowish liquid, the bitter oleoresin of several species of Copaifera, a genus of trees growing in South America and the West Indies. It is stimulant and diuretic, and is much used in affections of the mucous membranes; -- called also balsam of copaiba. [Written also capivi.]…

A resinous substance flowing spontaneously from trees of Zanzibar, Madagascar, and South America (Trachylobium Hornemannianum, T. verrocosum, and Hymenæa Courbaril), and dug from earth where forests have stood in Africa; -- used chiefly in making varnishes. Ur

The yellowish, fragrant balsam yielded by the sweet gum; also, the tree itself.

Partnership in inheritance; joint heirship; joint right of sucession to an inheritance.

One who has an equal portion with others of an inheritance. All the coparceners together make but one heir, and have but one estate among them. blackstone.

An equal share of an inheritance.

To share. [Obs.] For, of all miserias, I hold that chief Wretched to be, when none coparts our grief. Webster (1661).

A compartment. [Obs.] T. Warton.

sons in business, etc.; a partner; an associate; a partaker; a sharer. the associates and copartners of our loss. Milton.

The state of being a copartner or of having a joint interest in any matter.

the state of being copartners in any undertaking. [R.]

Having a high crown, or a point or peak at top. [Obs.] A copatain hat made on a Flemish block. Gascoigne.

A joint patriot.

as 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.