Cop waste, a kind of cotton waste, composed chiefly of remnants of cops from which the greater part of the yarn has been unwound.
{ Co*pai"ba (?; 277), Co*pai"va (?) }, n. [Sp. & Pg., fr. Brazil. cupa˙ba.] (Med.) A more or less viscid, yellowish liquid, the bitter oleoresin of several species of Copaifera, a genus of trees growing in South America and the West Indies. It is stimulant and diuretic, and is much used in affections of the mucous membranes; -- called also balsam of copaiba. [Written also capivi.]
Co"pal (kō"pal; 277), [Sp., fr. Mexican copalli, a generic name of resins. Clavigero.] A resinous substance flowing spontaneously from trees of Zanzibar, Madagascar, and South America (Trachylobium Hornemannianum, T. verrucosum, and HymenŠa Courbaril), and dug from earth where forests have stood in Africa; -- used chiefly in making varnishes. Ure.
Co*par"ce*na*ry (k&osl;*pńr"s&esl;*n&asl;*r&ybreve;), n.; pl. Coparcenaries (-r&ibreve;z). [Pref. co- + parcenary] (Law) Partnership in inheritance; joint heirship; joint right of succession to an inheritance.
Co*par"ce*ner (-n&etilde;r), n. [Pref. co- + parcener.] (Law) One who has an equal portion with others of an inheritance.
All the coparceners together make but one heir, and have but one estate among them.
Blackstone.
Co*par"ce*ny (?), n. [Abbrev. of Coparcenary.] (Law) An equal share of an inheritance.