3. To match one's self against; to meet; to encounter.

I love to cope him in these sullen fits.

Shak.

They say he yesterday coped Hector in the battle, and struck him down.

Shak.

Cope"-chis`el (?), n. A narrow chisel adapted for cutting a groove. Knight.

Co"peck (?), n. [Russ. kopeika] A Russian copper coin. See Kopeck.

Coped (?), a. Clad in a cope.

||Cop`e*la"ta (?), n. pl. [NL., fr. Gr. &?; a rower.] (Zo÷l.) See Larvalla.

Cope"man (?), n. [D. koopman, fr. koopen to buy. See Cope, v. i. Chapman.] A chapman; a dealer; a merchant. [Obs.]

He would have sold his part of paradise

For ready money, had he met a copeman.

B. Jonson.

Cop"e*pod (?), a. (Zo÷l.) Of or pertaining to the Copepoda. -- n. One of the Copepoda.

||Co*pep"o*da (?), n. pl. [NL., from Gr. &?; an oar + -poda.] (Zo÷l.) An order of Entomostraca, including many minute Crustacea, both fresh-water and marine.

&fist; They have a distinct carapace. The eggs are carried in a pair of external pouches. Some are parasites of fishes.

Co*per"ni*can (?), a. Pertaining to Copernicus, a Prussian by birth (b. 1473, d. 1543), who taught the world the solar system now received, called the Copernican system.

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