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A coin made of copper; a penny, cent, or other minor coin of copper. [Colloq.] My friends filled my pockets with coppers. Franklin.

A place where copper is wrought or manufactured. Woodward.

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.

The mineral azurite, found in fine crystallization at Chessy, near Lyons; called also chessylite.

Of or pertaining to Abyssinia. Abyssinian gold, an alloy of 90.74 parts of copper and 8.33 parts of zink. Ure.

Of the nature of, or like, copper; brassy. [R.]

Of the nature or color of verdigris, or the rust of copper.

The rust of any metal, esp. of brass or copper; verdigris.