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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.

Copulating backward, or from behind.

Copulation from behind. Sir T. Browne.

A peculiar brushlike organ found on the foot of spiders and used in the construction of the web.

To copulate, as bucks and does.

One of a pair of male copulatory organs, developed on the anterior side of the ventral fins of sharks and other elasmobranchs. See Illust. of Chimæra.

A coming together; sexual intercourse; copulation. Grew.

To come together as male and female; to copulate. [Obs.] Milton. Bacon.

To copulate with (a female); to serve; as. a horse covers a mare; -- said of the male. To cover ground or distance, to pass over; as, the rider covered the ground in an hour. -- To cover one's short contracts (Stock Exchange), to buy stock when the market rises, as a dealer who has sold short does in order to protect…

To copulate; to breed. [R.] Shak.

Want of procreative power; inability to copulate, or beget children; also, sometimes, sterility; barrenness.

Wanting the power of procreation; unable to copulate; also, sometimes, sterile; barren.

f attaching a ring, clasp, or frame, to the genital organs in such a manner as to prevent copulation.

Used in copulation; -- said of the external reproductive organs of the males of many animals, and sometimes of those of the females.

To copulate; -- said of toads. [R.] Shak.