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Convert

CONVERT, verb transitive [Latin , to turn; coinciding in elements and signification with barter.]

1. To change or turn into another substance or form; as, to convert gases into water, or water into ice.

2. To change from one state to another; as, to convert a barren waste into a fruitful field; to convert a wilderness into a garden; to convert rude savages into civilized men.

3. To change or turn from one religion to another, or from one party or sect to another; as, to convert pagans to Christianity; to convert royalists into republicans.

4. To turn from a bad life to a good one; to change the heart and moral character, from enmity to God and from vicious habits, to love of God and to a holy life.

Repent ye therefore, and be converted, that your sins may be blotted out. Acts 3:19.

He that converteth a sinner from the error of his way, shall save a soul from death. James 5:19.

5. To turn toward a point.

Crystal will callify into electricity, and convert the needle freely placed. [Unusual.]

6. To turn from one use or destination to another; as, to convert liberty into an engine of oppression.

7. To appropriate or apply to ones own use, or to personal benefit; as, to convert public property to our own use.

8. To change one proposition into another, so that what was the subject of the first becomes the predicate of the second; as, all sin is a transgression of the law; but every transgression of the law is sin.

9. To turn into another language.

CONVERT, verb intransitive To turn or be changed; to undergo a change.

The love of wicked friends converts to fear; that fear, to hate.

CONVERT, noun

1. A person who is converted from one opinion or practice to another; a person who renounces one creed, religious system or party, and embraces another; applied particularly to those who change their religious opinions, but applicable to political and philosophical sects.

2. In a more strict sense, one who is turned from sin to holiness.

Zion shall be redeemed with judgment, and her converts with righteousness. Isaiah 1:27.

3. In monasteries, a lay-friar or brother, admitted to the service of the house, without orders, and not allowed to sing in the choir.

Converted

CONVERTED, participle passive Turned or changed from one substance or state to another; turned form one religion or sect to another; changed from a state of sin to a state of holiness; applied to a particular use; appropriated.

Converter

CONVERTER, noun One who converts; one who makes converts.

Convertibility

CONVERTIBILITY, noun [from convertible.]

1. The quality of being possible to be converted or changed from one substance, form or state to another; as the convertibility of land into money.

2. The quality of being changeable from one letter to another; as the convertibility of m with b or of d into t.

Convertible

CONVERTIBLE, adjective

1. That may be changed; susceptible of change; transmutable; transformable.

Minerals are not convertible into another species, though of the same genus.

2. So much alike that one may be used for another. Usury and interest are not now convertible terms, though formerly they were.

3. That may be changed, as one letter for another; as b, p and f are convertible letters.

Convertibly

CONVERTIBLY, adverb Reciprocally; with interchange of terms.

Convertite

CONVERTITE, noun A convert. [Not in use.]

Convex

CONVEX, adjective [Latin] Rising or swelling on the exterior surface into a spherical or round form; gibbous; opposed to concave, which expresses a round form of the interior surface; as a convex mirror or lens.

CONVEX, noun A convex body; as heavens convex

Convexed

CONVEXED, adjective Made convex; protuberant in a spherical form.

Convexedly

CONVEXEDLY, adverb In a convex form.

Convexity

CONVEXITY, noun [Latin] The exterior surface of a convex body; a gibbous or globular form; roundness.

Convexly

CONVEXLY, adverb In a convex form; as a body convexly conical.

Convexness

CONVEXNESS, noun Convexity, which see.

Convexo-Concave

CONVEXO-CONCAVE, adjective Convex on one side and concave on the other; having the hollow on the inside corresponding to the convex surface.

Convexo-Convex

CONVEXO-CONVEX, adjective Convex on both sides.

Convey

CONVEY, verb transitive [Latin , to carry; to weigh. See Weigh and Way.]

1. To carry , bear or transport, either by land or water, or in air; as, to convey a letter or a package; to convey goods from England to France.

2. To pass or cause to pass; to transmit; as, to convey a right or an estate from father to son.

3. To transfer; to pass a title to any thing from one person to another, as by deed, assignment or otherwise; as, to convey lands by bargain and sale.

4. To cause to pass; to transmit; to carry, by any medium; as, air conveys sound; words convey ideas.

5. To manage; to carry on. [Not used.]

I will convey the business as I shall find means.

6. To impart; to communicate.

Conveyable

CONVEYABLE, adjective That may be conveyed or transferred.

Conveyance

CONVEYANCE, noun

1. The act of conveying; the act of bearing, carrying, or transporting, by land or water, or through any medium.

2. The act of transmitting, or transferring, as titles, estates or claims from one person to another; transmission; transference; assignment.

3. The instrument or means of passing a thing from place to place, or person to person; as, a vehicle is a conveyance for persons or goods; a canal or aqueduct is a conveyance for water; a deed is a conveyance of land.

4. Removal; the act of removing or carrying.

5. Management; artifice; secret practices. [In this sense, obsolete.]

Conveyancer

CONVEYANCER, noun One whose occupation is to draw conveyances of property, deeds, etc.

Conveyancing

CONVEYANCING, noun The act or practice of drawing deeds, leases or other writings for transferring the title to property from one person to another.

Conveyer

CONVEYER, noun

1. One who conveys; he or that which conveys, carries, transports, transmits or transfers from one person or place to another.

2. A juggler.

Conveying

CONVEYING, participle present tense Carrying; transporting; transferring.

Convicinity

CONVICINITY, noun Neighborhood; vicinity.

Convict

CONVICT, verb transitive [Latin , to vanquish or subdue. See Convince.]

1. To determine the truth of a charge against one; to prove or find guilty of a crime charged; to determine or decide to be guilty, as by the verdict of a jury, by confession, or other legal decision. The jury convicted the prisoner of felony.

2. To convince of sin; to prove or determine to be guilty, as by the conscience.

They who heard it, being convicted by their own conscience, went out one by one. John 8:9.

3. To confute; to prove or show to be false.

4. To show by proof or evidence.

CONVICT, participle passive For convicted. Proved or found guilty.

CONVICT, noun A person proved or found guilty of a crime alledged against him, either by the verdict of a jury or other legal decision.

Convicted

CONVICTED, participle present tense Proved or determined to be guilty, either by verdict of a jury or by the decision of conscience.

Convicting

CONVICTING, participle present tense Proving or finding guilty.

Conviction

CONVICTION, noun

1. The act of proving, finding or determining to be guilty of an offense charged against a person before a legal tribunal; as by confession, by the verdict of a jury, or by the sentence of other tribunal, as in the summary convictions before commissioners of the revenue.

2. The act of convincing, or compelling one to admit the truth of a charge; the act of convincing of sin or sinfulness; the sate of being convinced or convicted by conscience; the state of being sensible of guilt; as, the convictions of a sinner may be temporary, or lasting and efficacious. By conviction a sinner is brought to repentance. Men often sin against the conviction of their own consciences.

3. The act of convincing of error; confutation; the act of compelling one to acknowledge his error, or the truth of what is alledged; as, the conviction of a heretic may induce him to abandon his errors.

Convictive

CONVICTIVE, adjective Having the power to convince or convict.

Convictively

CONVICTIVELY, adverb In a convincing manner.

Convince

CONVINCE, verb transitive [Latin , to vanquish.]

1. To persuade or satisfy the mind by evidence; to subdue the opposition of the mind to truth, or to what is alledged, and compel it to yield its assent; as, to convince a man of his errors; or to convince him of the truth.

For he mightily convinced the Jews--showing by the scriptures that Jesus was the Christ. Acts 18:28.

2. To convict; to prove guilty; to constrain one to admit or acknowledge himself to be guilty.

If ye have respect to persons, ye commit sin, and are convinced of [by] the law as transgressors. James 2:9.

To convince all that are ungodly among them of all their ungodly deeds. Jude 1:15.

3. To envince; to prove.

4. To overpower; to surmount; to vanquish.

Convinced

CONVINCED, participle passive Persuaded in mind; satisfied with evidence; convicted.

Convincement

CONVINCEMENT, noun Conviction. [Little used.]

Convincer

CONVINCER, noun He or that which convinces; that which makes manifest.

Convincible

CONVINCIBLE, adjective

1. Capable of conviction.

2. Capable of being disproved or refuted. [Little used.]

Convincing

CONVINCING, participle present tense

1. Persuading the mind by evidence; convicting.

2. adjective Persuading the mind by evidence; capable of subduing the opposition of the mind and compelling its assent. We have convincing proof of the truth of the scriptures, and of Gods moral government of the world.

Convincingly

CONVINCINGLY, adverb In a convincing manner; in a manner to leave no room to doubt, or to compel assent.

Convincingness

CONVINCINGNESS, noun The power of convincing.

Convitious

CONVITIOUS, adjective [Latin] Reproachful.

Convive

CONVIVE, verb transitive To entertain; to feast. [Not in use.]

Convivial

CONVIVIAL, adjective [Latin , a guest, to live or eat and drink together. See Victuals.] Relating to a feast or entertainment; festal; social; jovial; as a convivial meeting.

Conviviality

CONVIVIALITY, noun

1. The good humor or mirth indulged at an entertainment.

2. A convivial spirit or disposition.

Convocate

CONVOCATE, verb transitive [Latin , to convoke; to call. See Voice.] To convoke; to call or summon to meet; to assemble by summons. [See Convoke.]

Convocation

CONVOCATION, noun [Latin]

1. The act of calling or assembling by summons.

2. An assembly.

In the first day there shall be a holy convocation Exodus 12:16.

3. In England, an assembly of the clergy, by their representatives, to consult on ecclesiastical affairs. It is held during the session of parliament, and consists of an upper and lower house. In the upper house sit the archbishops and bishops; in the lower house sit the inferior clergy, represented by their proctors, consisting of all the deans and arch-deacons, of one proctor for every chapter, and two for the clergy of every diocese, in all one hundred and forty-three divines, vix. Twenty-two deans, fifty-three arch-deacons, twenty-four prebendaries, and forty-four proctors of the diocesan clergy.

4. An academical assembly, in which the business of the university is transacted.

Convoke

CONVOKE, verb transitive [Latin See Voice.] To call together; to summon to meet; to assemble by summons.

It is the prerogative of the President of the United States to convoke the senate.

Convoked

CONVOKED, participle passive Summoned or assembled by order.

Convoking

CONVOKING, participle present tense Summoning to convene; assembling.

Convolute

CONVOLUTE, CONVOLUTED, adjective Rolled together, or one part on another; as the sides or margins of nascent leaves in plants, or as the petals and stigmas in Crocus.

Convoluted

CONVOLUTE, CONVOLUTED adjective Rolled together, or one part on another; as the sides or margins of nascent leaves in plants, or as the petals and stigmas in Crocus.

Convolution

CONVOLUTION, noun [Latin]

1. The act of rolling or winding together, or one thing on another; the state of being rolled together.

2. A winding or twisting; a winding motion; as the convolution of certain vines; the convolution of an eddy.

Convolve

CONVOLVE, verb transitive [Latin , to roll. See Wallow.] To roll or wind together; to roll one part on another.

Convolvulus

CONVOLVULUS, noun [Latin] Bindweed, a genus of plants of many species.

Convoy

CONVOY, verb transitive [Latin , to carry, to bear or carry, to bring along.] To accompany on the way for protection, either by sea or land; as, ships of war convoyed the Jamaica fleet; the troops convoyed the baggage wagons. When persons are to be protected, the word escort is used.

CONVOY, noun

1. A protecting force accompanying ships or property on their way from place to place, either by sea or land. By sea, a ship or ships of war which accompany merchantmen for protection from an enemy. By land, any body of troops which accompany provisions, ammunition or other property for protection.

2. The ship or fleet conducted and protected; that which is conducted by a protecting force; that which is convoyed. The word sometimes includes both the protecting and protected fleets.

3. The act of attending for defense.

4. Conveyance.

Convoyed

CONVOYED, participle passive Attended on a passage by a protecting force.

Convoying

CONVOYING, participle present tense Attending on a voyage or passage for defense from enemies; attending and guarding.

Convulse

CONVULSE, verb transitive [Latin , to pull or pluck.]

1. To draw or contract, as the muscular parts of an animal body; to affect by regular spasms; as, the whole frame may be convulsed in agony.

2. To shake; to affect by violent irregular action.

Convulsing heaven and earth.

Convulsed

CONVULSED, participle passive Contracted by spasms; shaken violently.

Convulsing

CONVULSING, participle present tense Affecting by spasmodic contractions; shaking with violence.

Convulsion

CONVULSION, noun [Latin]

1. A preternatural, violent and involuntary contraction of the muscular parts of an animal body.

2. Any violent and irregular motion; tumult; commotion; as political convulsions.

Convulsive

CONVULSIVE, adjective

1. That produces convulsion; as convulsive rage; convulsive sorrow.

2. Attended with convulsion or spasms; as convulsive motions; convulsive strife.

Convulsively

CONVULSIVELY, adverb With violent shaking or agitation.

Cony

CONY, CONEY, noun [Latin The primary sense is a shoot, or a shooting along.] A rabbit; a quadruped of the genus Lepus, which has a short tail and naked ears. In a wild state the fur is brown, but the color of the domestic rabbit is various.

Cony-Burrow

CONY-BURROW, noun A place where rabbits burrow in the earth.

Cony-Catch

CONY-CATCH, verb intransitive [cony and catch.] In the cant of thieves, to cheat; to bite; to trick.

Cony-Catcher

CONY-CATCHER, noun A thief; a cheat; a sharper.

Cony-Catching

CONY-CATCHING, noun Banter.

Coo

COO, verb intransitive [probably from the sound.] To cry, or make a low sound, as pigeons or doves.

Cooing

COOING, participle present tense Uttering a low sound, as a dove.

COOING, noun Invitation, as the note of the dove.

Cook

COOK, verb transitive [Latin]

1. To prepare, as victuals for the table, by boiling, roasting, baking, broiling, etc. To dress, as meat or vegetables, for eating.

2. To prepare for any purpose.

3. To throw. [Obs. or local.]

COOK, verb intransitive To make the noise of the cuckoo.

COOK, noun [Latin] One whose occupation is to prepare victuals for the table; a man or woman who dresses meat or vegetables for eating.

Cooked

COOKED, participle present tense Prepared for the table.

Cookery

COOKERY, noun The art or the practice of dressing and preparing victuals for the table.

Cooking

COOKING, participle present tense Preparing victuals for the table.

Cookmaid

COOKMAID, noun [cook and maid.] A female servant or maid who dresses provisions.

Cookroom

COOKROOM, noun [cook and room.] A room for cookery; a kitchen. On board of ships, a galley or caboose.

Cool

COOL, adjective [G., cold, to cool; chilliness; to blow strong.]

1. Moderately cold; being of a temperature between hot and cold; as cool air; cool water.

2. Not ardent or zealous; not angry; not fond; not excited by passion of any kind; indifferent; as a cool friend; a cool temper; a cool lover.

3. Not retaining heat; light; as a cool dress.

COOL, noun A moderate state of cold; moderate temperature of the air between hot and cold; as the cool of the day; the cool of the morning or evening.

COOL, verb transitive

1. To allay heat; to make cool or cold; to reduce the temperature of a substance; as, ice wools water.

Send Lazarus, that he may dip the tip of his finger in water, and cool my tongue. Luke 16:24.

2. To moderate excitement of temper; to allay, as passion of any kind; to calm, as anger; to abate, as love; to moderate, as desire, zeal or ardor; to render indifferent.

COOL, verb intransitive

1. To become less hot; to lose heat. Let tea or coffee cool to the temperature of the blood, before it is drank.

2. To lose the heat of excitement or passion; to become less ardent, angry, zealous, or affectionate; to become more moderate. Speak not in a passion; first let your temper cool

Cool-Cup

COOL-CUP, noun A beverage that is cooling.

Cool-Headed

COOL-HEADED, adjective Having a temper not easily excited; free from passion.

Cooled

COOLED, participle passive Made less hot, or less ardent.

Cooler

COOLER, noun

1. That which cools; any substance which abates heat or excitement; as, acids are coolers to the body.

2. A vessel in which liquors or other things are cooled.

Cooling

COOLING, participle present tense Abating heat or excitement; making or becoming cool.

Coolish

COOLISH, adjective Somewhat cool.

Coolly

COOLLY, adverb

1. Without heat or sharp cold.

2. In a cool or indifferent manner; not cordially; without passion or ardor. He was coolly received at court.

3. Without haste; calmly; deliberately. The design was formed coolly and executed with firmness.

Coolness

COOLNESS, noun

1. A moderate degree of cold; a temperature between cold and heat; as the coolness of the summers evening.

2. A moderate degree, or a want of passion; want of ardor, or zeal; indifference; want of affection; as, they parted with coolness

Coom

COOM, noun Soot that gathers over an ovens mouth; also, the matter that works out of the naves or boxes of carriage wheels. In Scotland, the useless dust which falls from coals.

Coomb

COOMB, COMB, noun [Gr.] A dry measure of four bushels, or half a quarter.

Coop

COOP, noun [L, from bending, hollowness, or containing, holding. See Cup.]

1. A box of boards, grated or barred on one side, for keeping fowls in confinement. It is usually applied to long boxes for keeping poultry for fattening or conveyance on board of ships, as cage is used for a small box to keep singing birds in houses. I do not know that it is ever used in America for a pen to confine other animals.

2. A pen; an inclosed place for small animals.

3. A barrel or cask for the preservation of liquors.

4. A tumbrel or close cart.

[The three last sense, not American.]

COOP, verb transitive To put in a coop; to confine in a coop Hence, to shut up or confine in a narrow compass; usually followed by up, to coop up; sometimes by in.

The Trojans cooped within their walls.

They are cooped in close by the laws of the country.

Cooped

COOPED, participle passive Shut up in a coop; confined to narrow limits.

Cooper

COOPER, noun [G.] One whose occupation is to make barrels, hogsheads, butts, tubs and casks of various kinds.

Cooperage

COOPERAGE, noun The price paid for coopers work; also, a place where coopers work is done.

Coot

COOT, noun A fowl of the genus Fulica, frequenting lakes and other still waters. The common coot has a bald forehead, a black body, and lobated toes, and is about fifteen inches in length. It makes its nest among rushes, with grass and reeds, floating on the water.

Cop

COP, noun [G.] The had or top of a thing, as in cob-castle for cop-castle, a castle on a hill; a tuft on the head of birds. This word is little used in America, unless cob, the spike of maize, may be the same word.

Copaiba

COPAIBA, noun Balsam of copaiba or capivi, is a liquid resinous juice, flowing from incisions made in the stem of a tree called Copaifera officinalis, growing in Spanish America, in the province of Antiochia. This juice is clear, transparent, of a whitish or pale yellowish color, an agreeable smell, and a bitterish pungent taste. It is of the consistence of oil, or a little thicker. As a medicine, it is corroborating and detergent.

Copal

COPAL, noun The concrete juice of a tree growing in Mexico or New Spain, hard, shining, transparent, citron-colored, and odoriferous. It is not strictly a gum nor a resin, as it has not the solubility in water common to gums, nor that in spirit of wine common to resins. In these respects it rather resembles amber. It may be dissolved by digestion in lintseed oil, with a heat little less than sufficient to boil or decompose the oil. This solution, diluted with spirit of turpentine, forms a beautiful transparent varnish.

Coparcenary

COPARCENARY, noun [See Coparcener.] Partnership in inheritance; joint heirship; joint right of succession or joint succession to an estate of inheritance.

Coparcener

COPARCENER, noun [con and parcener, Latin , to divide.] A coheir; one who has an equal portion of the inheritance of his or her ancestor with others.

All the coparceners together make but one heir, and have but one estate among them.

COPARCENERs take by descent; joint-tenants, by purchase.

Coparceny

COPARCENY, noun An equal share of an inheritance.

Copartment

COPARTMENT, noun The same as compartment. [Not in use.]

Copartner

COPARTNER, noun [con and partner. See Coparcener.]

1. One who has a share in a common stock for transacting business, or who is jointly concerned with one or more persons, in carrying on trade or other business; a partner; an associate, particularly in trade or manufactures.

2. A sharer; a partaker; as, copartners of our loss.

Copartnership

COPARTNERSHIP, noun

1. Joint concern in business; a state of having joint share in a common stock, or a joint interest and concern in business, particularly in trade and manufactures.

2. The persons who have a joint concern.

Copatan

COPATAN, noun [See Cop.] High raised; pointed. [Not in use.]

Cope

COPE, noun

1. A cover for the head.

2. A sacerdotal ornament or vestment worn in sacred ministrations. An ornament worn by chanters and subchanters, when they officiate in solemnity. It reaches from the shoulders to the feet.

3. Any thing spread or extended over the head; the arch or concave of the sky; the roof or covering of a house; the arch over a door, etc.

4. An ancient tribute due to the king or lord of the soil, out of the lead mines in some part of Derbyshire.

COPE, verb transitive

1. To cover as with a cope

2. To pare the beak or talons of a hawk.

3. To embrace.

COPE, verb intransitive

1. To strive or contend on equal terms, or with equal strength; to equal in combat; to match; to oppose with success.

The Generals have not been able to cope with the troops of Athens.

Till Luther rose, no power could cope with the pope.

He was too open and direct in his conduct, and possessed too little management-to cope with so cool and skillful an adversary.

2. To contend; to strive or struggle; to combat.

Host copd with host, dire was the din of war.

3. To encounter; to interchange kindness or sentiments.

4. To make return; to reward.

5. To exchange, or barter. [Not in use.]

Copeman

COPEMAN, noun A chapman. [Not used.]

Copernican

COPERNICAN, adjective Pertaining to Copernicus, a Prussian by birth, who taught the world the solar system now received, called the copernican system.

Copesmate

COPESMATE, noun [cope and mate.] A companion or friend.

Copied

COPIED, participle passive [See Copy.] Taken off; written or transcribed from an original or form; imitated.

Copier

COPIER, COPYIST, noun One who copies; one who writes or transcribes from an original or form; a transcriber; an imitator; also, a plagiary.

Coping

COPING, noun [See cope, noun ] The top or cover of a wall, made sloping to carry off the water. 1 Kings 7:9. A coping over, is a projecting work beveling on its under side.

Copious

COPIOUS, adjective

1. Abundant; plentiful; in great quantities; full; ample; furnishing full supplies.

The tender heart is peace, and kindly pours its copious treasures forth in various converse.

2. Furnishing abundant matter; not barren; rich in supplies.

The redemption of man is a copious subject of contemplation.

Hail, Son of God, Savior of men! Thy name shall be the copious matter of my song.

Copiousness

COPIOUSNESS, noun

1. Abundance; plenty; great quantity; full supply.

2. Diffusiveness of style or manner of treating a subject; as the copiousness of Homer.

Copist

COPIST, noun A copier; an ill formed word.

Copland

COPLAND, noun A piece of ground terminating in a cop or acute angle. [Not used in America.]

Copped

COPPED, COPPLED, adjective [See Cop.] Rising to a point, or head.

COPPED like a sugar loaf.

Coppel

COPPEL. [See Cupel.]

Copper

COPPER, noun [Latin , G., supposed to be so called from Cyprus, an isle in the Mediterranean. This opinion is probable, as the Greeks called it Cyprian brass, brass of Cyprus. In this case copper was originally an adjective.] A metal, of a pale red color, tinged with yellow. Next to gold, silver and platina, it is the most ductile and malleable of the metals, and it is more elastic than any metal, except steel, and the most sonorous of all the metals. It is found native in lamins or fibers, in a gangue almost always quartzous; it is also found crystalized, and in grains or superficial lamins on stones or iron. It is not altered by water, but is tarnished by exposure to the air, and is at last covered with a green carbonated oxyd. copper in sheets is much used for covering the bottoms of ships, for boilers and other utensils; mixed with tin and zink, it is used in enamel-painting, dyeing, etc. : mixed with tin, it forms bell-metal; with a smaller proportion, bronze; and with zink, it forms brass, pinchbeck, etc. When taken into the body ti operates as a violent emetic, and all its preparations are violent poisons.

COPPER, adjective Consisting of copper

COPPER, noun

1. A vessel made of copper particularly a large boiler.

2 Formerly, a small copper coin.

My friend filled my pocket with coppers.

COPPER, verb transitive To cover or sheathe with sheets of copper; as, to copper a ship.

Copper-Bottomed

COPPER-BOTTOMED, adjective Having a bottom sheathed with copper.

Copper-Fastened

COPPER-FASTENED, adjective Fastened with copper bolts.

Copper-Nose

COPPER-NOSE, noun A red nose.

Copper-Plate

COPPER-PLATE, noun A plate of copper on which concave lines are engraved or corroded, according to some delineated figure or design. This plate, when charged with any colored fluid, imparts an impression of the figure or design to paper or parchment.

Copper-Smith

COPPER-SMITH, noun One whose occupation is to manufacture copper utensils.

Copper-Work

COPPER-WORK, noun A place where copper is wrought or manufactured.

Copper-Worm

COPPER-WORM, noun A little worm in ships; a worm that frets garments; a worm that breeds in ones hand.

Copperas

COPPERAS, noun Sulphate of iron, or green vitriol; a salt of a peculiar astringent taste, and of various colors, green, gray, yellowish, or whitish, but more usually green. It is much used in dyeing black and in making ink, and in medicine, as a tonic. The copperas of commerce is usually made by the decomposition of iron pyrites. The term copperas was formerly synonymous with vitriol, and included the green, blue and white vitriols, or the sulphates of iron, copper and zink.

Coppered

COPPERED, participle passive Covered with sheets of copper; sheathed.

Copperish

COPPERISH, adjective Containing copper; like copper or partaking of it.

Coppery

COPPERY, adjective Mixed with copper; containing copper, or made of copper; like copper in taste or smell.

Coppice

COPPICE, COPSE, noun A wood of small growth, or consisting of underwood or brushwood; a wood cut at certain times for fuel.

The rate of coppice lands will fall on the discovery of coal-mines.

Coppiously

COPPIOUSLY, adverb

1. Abundantly; plentifully; in large quantities.

2. Largely; fully; amply; diffusely.

The remains of antiquity have been copiously described by travelers.

Copple-Dust

COPPLE-DUST, noun Powder used in purifying metals.

Copple-Stones

COPPLE-STONES, noun Lumps and fragments of stone broke from the adjacent cliffs, rounded by being bowled and tumbled to and again by the action of water. In New England, we pronounce this word cobble, cobble-stones, and if the word is a diminutive of cob, cop, a head, or cub, a heap, we follow the Welsh cob, as the English do the same word, cop, in the Saxon dialect. We apply the word to small round stones, from the size of an inch or two, to five or six inches or more, in diameter, wherever they may be found.

Coppled

COPPLED, adjective [from cop.] Rising to a point; conical.

Copse

COPSE, noun [See Coppice.]

COPSE, verb transitive To preserve underwoods.

Copsy

COPSY, adjective Having copses.

Coptic

COPTIC, adjective Pertaining to the descendants of the ancient Egyptians, called Copts, or cophti, as distinct from the Arabians and other inhabitants of modern Egypt. The name is supposed to be taken from Coptos, the metropolis of the Thebaid; as Egypt, is probably from that name; inclosed, fortified. To inclose, to bind, to fortify. Whatever may be the origin of Copt, the adjective coptic now refers to the people called Copts, who are Christians, and to their language.

COPTIC, noun The language of the Copts.

Copula

COPULA, noun [Latin See Copulation and Couple.] In logic, the word which unties the subject and predicate of a proposition. Religion is indispensable to happiness. Here is is the copula joining religion, the subject, with indispensable to happiness, the predicate.

Copulate

COPULATE, adjective Joined. [Little used.]

COPULATE, verb transitive [Latin] To unite; to join in pairs. [Little used.]

COPULATE, verb intransitive To unite in sexual embrace; applied to animals in general.

Copulation

COPULATION, noun [Latin] The act of coupling; the embrace of the sexes in the act of generation; coition.

Copulative

COPULATIVE, adjective That unites or couples. In grammar, the copulative conjunction connects two or more subjects or predicates, in an affirmative or negative proposition; as, riches and honors are temptations to pride; the Romans conquered Spain and gaul and Britain; neither wealth nor honors will purchase immortal happiness.

COPULATIVE, noun

1. A copulative conjunction.

2. Connection. [Not in use.]

Copy

COPY, noun [See Cope and Cuff.] Literally, a likeness, or resemblance of any kind. Hence,

1. A writing like another writing; a transcript from an original; or a book printed according to the original; hence, any single book , or set of books, containing a composition resembling the original work; as the copy of a deed, or of a bond; a copy of Addisons works; a copy of the laws; a copy of the scriptures.

2. The form of a picture or statue according to the original; the imitation or likeness of any figure, draught, or almost any object.

3. An original work; the autograph; the archetype. Hence, that which is to be imitated in writing or printing. Let the child write according to the copy The copy is in the hands of the printer. Hence, a pattern or example for imitation. His virtues are an excellent copy for imitation.

4. Abundance. [Latin]

COPY, verb transitive

1. To write, print or engrave, according to an original; to form a like work or composition by writing, printing or engraving; to transcribe; often followed by out, but the use is not elegant.

The men of Hezekiah copied certain proverbs of Solomon.

2. To paint or draw according to an original.

3. To form according to a model, as in architecture.

4. To imitate or attempt to resemble; to follow an original or pattern, in manners or course of life. copy the Savior in his humility and obedience.

COPY, verb intransitive To imitate or endeavor to be like; to do any thing in imitation of something else. A painter copies from the life. An obedient child copies after his parent.

They never fail, when they copy to follow the bad as well as the good.

Copybook

COPYBOOK, noun A book in which copies are written or printed for learners to imitate.

Copyed

COPYED, participle passive Transcribed; imitated; usually written copied.

Copyer

COPYER, noun One who copies or transcribes; usually written copier.

Copyhold

COPYHOLD, noun In England, a tenure of estate by copy of court roll; or a tenure for which the tenant hath nothing to show, except the rolls made by the steward of the lords court.

Copyholder

COPYHOLDER, noun One who is possessed of land in copyhold.

Copyist

COPYIST, noun A copier; a transcriber.

Copyright

COPYRIGHT, noun The sole right which an author has in his own original literary compositions; the exclusive right of an author to print, publish and vend his own literary works, for his own benefit; the like right in the hands of an assignee.

Coquallin

COQUALLIN, noun A small quadruped of the squirrel kind, but incapable of climbing trees.

Coquelico

COQUELICOT, coquelico noun Wild poppy; corn rose; hence, the color of wild poppy.

Coquelicot

COQUELICOT, COQUELICO, noun Wild poppy; corn rose; hence, the color of wild poppy.

Coquet

COQUET, COQUETTE, noun A vain, airy, trifling girl, who endeavors to attract admiration and advances in love, from a desire to gratify vanity, and then rejects her lover; a jilt.

Coquetish

COQUETISH, adjective Practicing coquetry.

Coquetry

COQUETRY, noun Attempts to attract admiration, notice or love, from vanity; affectation of amorous advances; trifling in love.

Coquette

COQUET, COQUETTE noun A vain, airy, trifling girl, who endeavors to attract admiration and advances in love, from a desire to gratify vanity, and then rejects her lover; a jilt.

The light coquettes in sylphs aloft repair, and sport and flutter in the fields of air.

Note. In French, coquet is masculine and COQUETTE feminine; but as our language has no such termination for gender, it may be better to write coquet for both sexes, and for distinction prefix male to the word when applied to a man.

COQUET, verb intransitive To attempt to attract notice, admiration or love, from vanity; to entertain with compliments and amorous tattle; to treat with an appearance of amorous tenderness.

You are coquetting a maid of honor.

COQUET, verb intransitive To trifle in love; to act the lover from vanity; to endeavor to gain admirers.

Coracle

CORACLE, noun [Gr., a crow, and form.] A small sharp process of the scapula, shaped like a crows beak.

Coracoid

CORACOID, adjective Shaped like a beak.

Coral

CORAL, noun [Latin Gr.]

1. In zoology, a genus belonging to the order of vermes zoophyta. The trunk is radicated, jointed and calcarious. The species are distinguished by the form of their branches, and are found in the ocean adhering to stones, bones, shells, etc. coral was formerly supposed to be a vegetable substance, but is now known to be composed of a congeries of animals. coral is red, white and black. It is properly the shells of marine animals of the polype kind, consisting of calcarious earth combined with gelatine and other animal matter. In the South Sea, the isles are mostly coral rocks covered with earth. Corals seem to consist of carbonate of lime and animal matter, in equal proportions.

2. A piece of coral worn by children about their necks.

CORAL, adjective Made of coral; resembling coral

Coral-Tree

CORAL-TREE, noun A genus of plants, Erythrina, of several species, natives of Africa and America. They are all shrubby flowering plants, adorned chiefly with trifoliate or three-lobed leaves, and scarlet spikes of papilionaceous flowers.

Coral-Wort

CORAL-WORT, noun A genus of plants, Dentaria, called also tooth-wort or tooth-violet.

Corallaceous

CORALLACEOUS, adjective Like coral, or partaking of its qualities.

Coralliform

CORALLIFORM, adjective [coral and form.] Resembling coral; forked and crooked.

Coralline

CORALLINE, adjective Consisting of coral; like coral; containing coral.

CORALLINE, noun A submarine plant-like body, consisting of many slender, jointed branches, resembling some species of moss; or animals growing in the form of plants, having their stems fixed to other bodies. These stems are composed of capillary tubes, which pass through a calcarious crust and open on the surface. In the Linnean system, corallines are classed with the zoophytes. They have been distributed by Ellis into vesiculated, furnished with small bodies like bladders; tubular, composed of simple tubes; celliferous, which, when magnified, appear to be fine thin cells, the habitations of small animals; and articulated, consisting of short pieces of stony or cretaceous brittle matter, covered with pores or cells, joined by a tough, membranous, flexible substance, composed of many small tubes. Butin this arrangement of Ellis, the term coralline is synonymous with the more ancient term lithophyta, including all the polypebearing animals, and nearly coinciding with the zoophyta of Linne, and the polypiers of the French naturalists.

Corallinite

CORALLINITE, noun A fossil polypier or coralline.

Corallite

CORALLITE, noun A mineral substance or petrifaction , in the form of coral; or a fossil polypier, larger than a corallinite.

Coralloid

CORALLOID, CORALLOIDAL, adjective Having the form of coral; branching like coral.

Coralloidal

CORALLOID, CORALLOIDAL adjective Having the form of coral; branching like coral.

CORALLOID, noun Eschara or hornwrack, a species of coralline, resembling woven cloth in texture, consisting of arrangements of very small cells. One species is called narrow-leaved hornwrack; another, the broad-leaved hornwrack. This name is given also to the keratophyta, horn-plant, or sea-shrub, a species of Gorgonia.

Corant

CORANT, noun [Latin] A lofty sprightly dance.

Corb

CORB, noun [Latin See the next word.]

1. A basket used in coaleries.

2. An ornament in a building.

Corban

CORBAN, noun [Latin G., a wicker basket.]

1. In Jewish antiquity, an offering which had life; an animal offered to God; in opposition to the mincha, which was an offering without life.

It is a gift, corban by whatsoever thou mightest be profited by me; that is, I have devoted that to God which you ask of me, and it is no longer mine to give.

2. An alms-basket; a vessel to receive gifts of charity; a gift; an alms; a treasury of the church, where offerings are deposited.

3. Among Mohammedans, a ceremony performed at the foot of mount Arrarat in Arabia, near Mecca. It consists in killing the number of sheep, and distributing them among the poor.

Corbe

CORBE, adjective Crooked. [Not in use.]

Corbeil

CORBEIL, noun In fortification, a little basket, to be filled with earth, and set upon a parapet, to shelter men from the fire of besiegers.

Corbel

CORBEL, noun [See the preceding words.]

1. In architecture, the representation of a basket, sometimes set on the heads of caryatides.

2. The vase or tambour of the Corinthian column; so called from its resemblance to a basket.

CORBEL, noun

1. A short piece of timber in a wall, jutting six or eight inches, as occasion requires, in the manner of a shoulderpiece; sometimes placed for strength under the semigirder of a platform. The under part is sometimes cut into the form of a boultin; sometimes of an ogee, or of a face, etc.

2. A niche or hollow left in walls for images, figures or statues.

Corby

CORBY, noun A raven. [Not in use.]

Corcelet

CORCELET, CORSELET, noun In natural history, that part of winged insects, which answers to the breast of other animals.

Corcle

CORCULE, CORCLE noun [Latin It is a diminutive, from cor, the heart.] In botany, the heart of the seed, or rudiment of a future plant, attached to and involved in the cotyledons. It consists of the plume or ascending part, and the rostel, or radicel, the simple descending part.

Corcule

CORCULE, CORCLE, noun [Latin It is a diminutive, from cor, the heart.] In botany, the heart of the seed, or rudiment of a future plant, attached to and involved in the cotyledons. It consists of the plume or ascending part, and the rostel, or radicel, the simple descending part.