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zinc, or arsenic. He washed the calcined 

 nuindic, &c. and by evaporating 1 the li- 

 quid produces chrystals of copperas. It 

 is probably owing in a great degree to 

 the quantity of green vitriol it contains, 

 that ink is so efficacious in the cure of 

 burns where the skin is not off; but it 

 should be applied without delay. Where 

 copperas comes in contact with metals, it 

 occasions an oxide to be formed, which 

 is highly prejudicial to linens, &c. a^s well 

 as to health. When it acts upon iron, it 

 produces a stain called iron-mould, which 

 may, however, be easily removed, if at- 

 tended to in doe time, by the use of ve- 

 getable acids ; especially the salt of le- 

 mons, and partially by cream of tartar, 

 which is often sold by those itinerant 

 knaves, who impose it on the ignorant 

 throughout the country for the concen- 

 trated salt of that fruit. 



COPROSMA, in botany, a genus of the 

 Polygamia Monoecia class and order. 

 Natural order of Stellatx. Rubiacese, 

 Jussieu. Essential character : calyx one- 

 leafed, five toothed; corolla five or six 

 cleft; stamina five, six, or seven. Herm. 

 styles two, long ; berry containing two 

 flattish seeds. There "are two species, 

 T7r. C. foetidissima, and C. lucida, both 

 shrubs: leaves opposite, with a stipule 

 interposing ; peduncles axillary, one, or 

 many-flowered ; flowers male and herma- 

 phrodite ; corolla differently divided, and 

 the number of stamens uncertain, from 

 five to seven. These were discovered in 

 Queen Charlotte's Sound, New-Zealand. 



COPULA, in logic, the verb that con- 

 nects any two terms in an affirmative 

 or negative ; as '* riches make a man 

 happy." where make is the copula : 

 " no weakness is a virtue ;" where is is 

 the copula. 



COPULATIVE propositions, in logic, 

 those where the subject and predicate 

 are so linked together, by copulative con- 

 junctions, that they may be all severally 

 affirmed or denied one of another. Ex- 

 ample, " Riches and honours are apt to 

 elate the mind, and increase the number 

 of our desires." 



COPY, in a law sense, signifies the 

 transcript of any original writing, as the 

 copy of a patent, charter, deed, &c. A 

 common deed cannot be proved by a 

 copy or counterpart, where the original 

 may be procured. But if the deed be in- 

 rolled, certifying an attested copy is 

 proof of the inrollment, and such copy 

 may be given in evidence. 



COPT is also used for the imitation of an 

 original work, more particularly in paint- 

 ing, draught, figure, &c. 



COPT, among printers, denotes the ma- 

 nuscript, or original of a book, given to 

 be printed. 



COPY is used for an imitation of any 

 original work, particularly a painting, 

 drawing, figure, &c. Of late years many 

 methods have been invented for taking 

 copies of letters, or other MS. for the 

 convenience of merchants, &c. Mr. 

 Watt, of Birmingham, obtained a patent 

 for a copying machine, which acts as a 

 rolling press: the ink made use of is of 

 a particular quality, which prevents its 

 drying too quickly, and the paper on 

 which the copy is to be taken is unsized, 

 and in other respects prepared for the 

 purpose. There have been other con- 

 trivances of polygraphs, for making two 

 or more copies at the same time of any 

 writing. But the most simple method, 

 where the practice is not much called for, 

 consists in putting a little sugar in com- 

 mon writing ink, and with this the wri- 

 ting is made on common paper? and when 

 a copy is required, unsized paper is tak- 

 en, and lightly moistened with a sponge 

 The wet paper is then applied to the 

 writing, and a flat iron of a moderate 

 heat being lightly passed over the unsiz- 

 ed paper', the copy is immediately pro- 

 duced. The use of the sugar is to preven 

 the ink from drying too soon. 



Copy-Ao/e/, a tenure, for which a tenant 

 has nothing to shew but the copy of the 

 rolls made by the steward of the lord's 

 court. 



The customs of manors differ as much 

 as the humour and temper of the respec- 

 tive ancient , lords ; so a copyholder, by 

 custom, may be tenant in fee-simple, in 

 fee-tail, for life, by the courtesy, in dower, 

 for years, at sufferance, or on condition ; 

 subject, however, to be deprived of these 

 estates upon the concurrence of those cir- 

 cumstances, which the will of the lords, 

 promulged by immemorial custom, hath 

 declared to be a forfeiture or absolute de- 

 termination of those interests ; as in some 

 manors the want of issue, in others the 

 want of issue male, in others the cutting 

 down timber, in others the non-payment of 

 rent or fine. Yet none of these interests 

 amount to freehold; for the freehold of the 

 whole manor abides always with the lord 

 only, who hath granted out the use of oc- 

 cupation, but not the corporeal seizin, or 

 true possession of certain parts or parcels 

 thereof, to these his customary tenants at 

 will. 



If a person would' devise a copyhold 

 estate, he cannot do it by his will, but he 

 must surrender to the use of his last will 

 and testament, and in his will declare his 



