Cop"per*ish, a. Containing, or partaking of the nature of, copper; like copper; as, a copperish taste.
Cop"per-nick`el (?), n. (Min.) Niccolite.
Cop"per-nose (?), n. A red nose. Shak.
Cop"per*plate` (k&obreve;p"p&etilde;r*plāt`), n. (a) A plate of polished copper on which a design or writing is engraved. (b) An impression on paper taken from such a plate.
&fist; In printing from a copper- or steel plate the lines are filled with ink, the surface of the plate is wiped clean, the paper laid upon it, and the impression taken by pressing it under the roller of a plate press.
Copperplate press. See Plate press, under Plate.
Cop"per*smith` (-sm&ibreve;th`), n. One whose occupation is to manufacture copper utensils; a worker in copper.
Cop"per works` (?). A place where copper is wrought or manufactured. Woodward.
Cop"per*worm` (?), n. (Zo÷l.) (a) The teredo; -- so called because it injures the bottoms of vessels, where not protected by copper. (b) The ringworm.
Cop"per*y (?), a. Mixed with copper; containing copper, or made of copper; like copper.
Cop"pice (k&obreve;p"p&ibreve;s), n. [OF. copeiz, fr. coper, couper, to cut, F. couper, fr. cop, coup, colp, a blow, F. coup, L. colaphus, fr. Gr. ko`lafos. Cf. Copse, and cf. CoupÚ, Coupee.] A grove of small growth; a thicket of brushwood; a wood cut at certain times for fuel or other purposes. See Copse.
The rate of coppice lands will fall, upon the discovery of coal mines.
Locke.
Cop"pin (?), n.[See Cop.] A cop of thread.
Cop"ple (?), n. [A dim. of Cop.] Something rising in a conical shape; specifically, a hill rising to a point.
A low cape, and upon it a copple not very high.
Hakluyt.
Cop"ple-crown (?), n. A created or high-topped crown or head. "Like the copple- crown the lapwing has." T. Randolph.
-- Cop"ple-crowned` (#), a.
Cop"pled (?), a. [From Copple.] Rising to a point; conical; copped. [Obs.] Woodward.