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A pear tree. See Pirie. [Obs.]

A place where apes are kept. [R.] Kingsley.

Relating to a cooper; coopered. [Obs.] Coopery vessels made of wood. Holland.

Mixed with copper; containing copper, or made of copper; like copper.

woolen stuffs in general. People who ought to be weighing out grocery or measuring out drapery. Macaulay.

The act or practice of duping. [R.]

Empire; sovereignty; dominion. [Archaic] Shak. Struggling for my woman's empery. Mrs. Browning.

Folly; foolery. Let not the sound of shallow foppery enter My sober house. Shak.

hand finery; cheap and tawdry decoration; affected elegance. Fond of gauze and French frippery. Goldsmith. The gauzy frippery of a French translation. Sir W. Scott.

A building or inclosure used for the cultivation of grapes.

Empery. [Archaic] Joye.

Jesting; buffoonery. [Obs.] Chaucer.

Of the nature of jasper; mixed with jasper.

The making, or study, of maps. [Obs.] Shak.

The acts and views of the mugwumps. [Political Cant, U.S.]

Table linen; also, linen clothing, or linen in general. [Obs.] Gayton.

Like paper; having the thinness or consistence of paper. Gray.

Of or pertaining to pepper; having the qualities of pepper; hot; pungent.

A hydrocarbon obtained by decomposition of certain piperidine derivatives.

A coloring matter found in many simple Anthozoa and some hydroids.