Cope
(Cope), v. i. To form a cope or arch; to bend or arch; to bow. [Obs.]
Some bending down and coping toward the earth.
Holland.
Cope
(Cope), v. t. (Falconry) To pare the beak or talons of J. H. Walsh.
Cope
(Cope), v. i. [imp. & p. p. Coped (kopt); p. pr. & vb. n. Coping.] [OE. copen, coupen, to
buy, bargain, prob. from D. koopen to buy, orig., to bargain. See Cheap.]
1. To exchange or barter. [Obs.] Spenser.
2. To encounter; to meet; to have to do with.
Horatio, thou art e'en as just a man
As e'er my conversation coped withal.
Shak.
3. To enter into or maintain a hostile contest; to struggle; to combat; especially, to strive or contend on
equal terms or with success; to match; to equal; — usually followed by with.
Host coped with host, dire was the din of war.
Philips.
Their generals have not been able to cope with the troops of Athens.
Addison.
Cope
(Cope), v. t.
1. To bargain for; to buy. [Obs.]
2. To make return for; to requite; to repay. [Obs.]
three thousand ducats due unto the Jew,
We freely cope your courteous pains withal.
Shak.
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-chisel
(Cope"-chis`el) n. A narrow chisel adapted for cutting a groove. Knight.
Copeck
(Co"peck) n. [Russ. kopeika] A Russian copper coin. See Kopeck.
Coped
(Coped) a. Clad in a cope.
Copelata
(||Cop`e*la"ta) n. pl. [NL., fr. Gr. a rower.] (Zoöl.) See Larvalla.
Copeman
(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.
Copepod
(Cop"e*pod) a. (Zoöl.) Of or pertaining to the Copepoda. — n. One of the Copepoda.
Copepoda
(||Co*pep"o*da) n. pl. [NL., from Gr. an oar + -poda.] (Zoöl.) An order of Entomostraca,
including many minute Crustacea, both fresh-water and marine.
They have a distinct carapace. The eggs are carried in a pair of external pouches. Some are parasites
of fishes.
