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Opium. [Obs.] Chaucer.

One who copies; one who writes or transcribes from an original; a transcriber.

Having equal pressure. Isopiestic lines, lines showing, in a diagram, the relations of temperature and volume, when the elastic force is constant; -- called also isobars.

Deceitful; cunning; sly. [Scot.]

oyed for the consolidation of a building, as in sustaining slender columns, holding up canopies, etc. Oxf. Gloss.

ting of alternate solids and open spaces. At first purely a military feature, afterwards copied on a smaller scale with decorative features, as for churches.

ted, dangers of the sea excepted. It is usual for the master to sign two, three, or four copies of the bill; one of which he keeps in possession, one is kept by the shipper, and one is sent to the consignee of the goods. -- Bill of mortality, an official statement of the number of deaths in a place or district within…

A support for a book, holding it open, while one reads or copies from it.

A copier of a manuscript.

To cover with, or as with, a canopy. "A bank with ivy canopied." Milton.

An apparatus by which a number of copies of written matter, maps, plans, etc., can be made; -- called also hectograph.

A circular letter, or paper, usually printed, copies of which are addressed or given to various persons; as, a business circular.

ays been conscientuously attached to what is called the Tory, and which might with more propierty be called the Conservative, party. Quart. Rev. (1830). Conservative system (Mech.), a material sustem of such a nature that after the system has undergone any series of changes, and been brought back in any manner to its o…

A copier. [Obs.] "A copist after nature." Shaftesbury.

Copyhold; tenure; lease. [Obs.] Shak. Copy book, a book in which copies are written or printed for learners to imitate. -- Examined copies (Law), those which have been compared with the originals. -- Exemplified copies, those which are attested under seal of a court. -- Certified or Office copies, those which are ma…

See Copier.

A contrivance for producing manifold copies of a writing or drawing.

py, v. Copying ink. See under Ink. -- Copying paper, thin unsized paper used for taking copies of letters, etc., in a copying press. -- Copying press, a machine for taking by pressure, an exact copy of letters, etc., written in copying ink.

A copier; a transcriber; an imitator; a plagiarist.

One who counterfeits; one who copies or imitates; especially, one who copies or forges bank notes or coin; a forger. The coin which was corrupted by counterfeiters. Camden.