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round eminence, boss, a little hill ; Ger. liopf^ top, head, upper- 

 most point ; Dut. top, top, summit ; and Belg. Tcop^ head, cup, 

 dish. 



"Wei. cop, copa, cup, top, summit, crown of the head, a hollow 

 or cup. Corn, cop, the top or summit, a tuft. This term is 

 found in Wei. coh, cop; A.-S. cop, copp ; Dut. hop; Ger. hopf, 

 the head or top of a thing ; Fr. coupeau, anc. fr. coppe, summit . 

 Gr. KvySiy ; Lat. caput. In English, Cob-castle or Cop-castle 

 means a castle on a hill." Williams' Diet. 



Lat. caput, head, top, point, end, extremity ; also cupa, copa, 

 vas vinarium; It. capo, head, chief; coppa, cup; coppo, vase, jar; 

 Sp. calo, caieza, head, toj/ ; copa, cup, goblet. • • 



Port, caieca, head; capo, cup, glass, goblet; '^um capo di vinJioy 



'Ft. tete, chef ; tasse, coupe, cup, soucoupe, saucer. 



Gr. KVTreXXov, Ke(f>a\7], cup, head. Sanskrit hapdla. 



" To cope a wall, to cover it ; the coping, the top or roof of a 

 wall ; ab A.-S. coppe, apex, culmen, a cop, caput, a coop, a 

 muck-coop, a lime-coop. Perchance from the Latin cupa, which 

 Fuller, Miscell. 1. 2, c. 18, derives from the Hebrew lip, a belly, 

 whence he deduces our cup or cooper." 



" Copt-know, the top of a hill rising into a cone or sugar-loaf. 

 Copt, I conceive, comes from caput, and hioio or hnoUe is the top 

 of a hill." Eay's Gloss. 



" Cop, a mound or bank, a heap of anything, an enclosure 

 with a ditch around it, the top or summit, a pinnacle." Halli- 

 well. 



" Cop, cope, a diinking vessel." Jamieson. 



" Cop, the top of anything. Torks. In Northumberland it 

 means a high hill." Brockett. 



The Rev. J. Taylor has cop, Saxon, a head, and cop, Celtic, a 

 hollow or cup. 



The vestment a cope is so called because it is put on over the 

 other ga,rment« ; it is the priest's coping or completed covering, 

 an ecclesiastical top-coat. 



" Copt, cop-heedit, cop-headed, a peaked crown as many polled 

 cattle have, or tufted as some birds are." Engl. Dialect. Soc. 

 Oxfordsh. Suppl. 



