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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.

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

A sweetened hot drink of spirit and beaten eggs.

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 apparatus designed for collecting spores, germs, bacteria, etc., suspended in the air.

An instrument consisting in part of a differential thermometer. It is used for measuring changes of temperature produced by different conditions of the sky, as when clear or clouded.

An instrument for viewing pictures by means of a lens, so as to present them in their natural proportions and relations.

An arrangement of lenses and mirrors which enables a person to see an object in spite of intervening objects.

An instrument for restoring a picture or image distorted by anamorphosis to its normal proportions. It usually consists of a cylindrical mirror.

An instrument which shows the direction of the wind; a wind vane; a weathercock; -- usually applied to a contrivance consisting of a vane above, connected in the building with a dial or index with pointers to show the changes of the wind.

An instrument for examining the capillary vessels of animals and plants. Morin.

An optical toy for producing amusing figures or pictures by means of two revolving disks, on one of which distorted figures are painted.