cope 
2. Kcrif.t.. large man tie of dlk or etiur materi- 
al wurn by priests or bilbop*OV*rthe ulbor siir- 
plii'O in prori-sMuii^. :it soli-inn lands or matins, 
:it benedictions. :ind on oilier occasions. It in 
usually semicircular in shape, and i fastened III front at 
the lleik'ht of till- shoulders hy a clasp i-alle.l ;l ,r 
originally it had a hood, and (In- piece of gmbrolden de- 
scending from the hack of tin ni - k i - siill - all. it Hi. /,,-//. 
Th. Dope i "iii nf tlic vestmenl.s uhn h v:n\ in color 
with the festival or season. The straight edge i- usually 
ornamented with a broad or|ihiv> or border of ambroidoy. 
i -jr.:; 
Ye l>e not all to blame. 
Saving that you mistrusted our good King 
\\ oiild handle scorn, or yield thee, asking, one 
Nut tit to i-of- your ijii' -r 
Trnnynm, flareth and Lyiiette. 
As distinguished from the chixsuble, the cope Is a proces- 
sional or choral vestment, while the chasuble is sacrificial 
or eucharistic. In the Church of l-.ngland the cope was 
sometimes used instead of the chasuble, and at the time 
of the Reformation the chasuble Itself was often called 
a cope. The 24th canon of 1603 (still In force) orders 
the cope to be worn by the celebrant in all cathedral and 
collegiate churches. It continued to be worn at the eu- 
charlst and at other times till the middle of the eighteenth 
century, especially in cathedrals, but had fallen gradually 
more and more into disuse till revived In recent times. 
A decision of the judicial committee of the l"rlvy Council 
in 1871 limited its use to that enjoined in the canon of 
160:1. In Knghmd in Hi.- middle ages a long open black 
mantle se\ui together in front over the neck and chest 
was worn by canons, and called the canon's cope. See 
mamlyait and pluvial. 
They (the clergymen] walked partly in coapet . , . and 
partly in surplices. Corijat, Crudities, I. 37. 
It had no Kuhrick to he sung in an antfck Coape upon 
the Stage of a High Altar. 
Milton, Apology for Smectymnuus. 
3. In the University of Cambridge, England, the 
erminod robe worn by a doctor in the senate- 
house on Congregation day. 4. Anything 
spread or extended over the head, as the arch 
or concave of the sky, the roof or covering of 
a house, or the arch over a door ; specifically, 
in arch., a coping. 
Till the dark cope of night with kind embrace 
Befriends the rout, and covers their disgrace. 
Additon, The Campaign. 
Over them vast and high extended the cope of a cedar, 
s inking friim its great arms the trumpet-flower and the 
Li-ape \inc. Lannfettaw, Rvailgclinc, II. 2. 
6. In founding, same as ease 2 , 10. See cut 
under flask. 
cope 1 (top), t'. ; pret. and pp. coped, ppr. coping. 
[< ME. coven (in def. 2) ; from the noun.] I. 
trans. 1. To provide with a cope or cloak; cover 
with a cloak ; cloak. 
Theune com ther n confessour coved as a frere. 
/'/.';.< rioinniln (('), iv. 38. 
2. To cover as with a cope ; furnish with a cop- 
ing. 
A very large bridge, that is all made of wood, and coped 
"vcrhca.I. AtttlvioH, Travels in Italy. 
II. intrant!. Inarch., to form a cope or coping ; 
bend as an arch or vault. The soffit of any pro- 
ject ion is said to <-i>i>f uci-r when it slopes down- 
ward from the wall. 
Some (tending down and r.././,i./ toward the earth. 
llollniiil, tr. of Pliny, xxv. 13. 
I rather fancy the old wooden form |of coffin) was not 
what UcaUedcotiod, exactly, but MX*con*l straight-dope. 
tlie ec.tlin ami lid heiligcach of three hoiird.s joined, as stilt 
Used aln-oad. A . ,i,,,l V-. (ith ser., X. 20S. 
cope- (kop), r. [< >ffi. co/xn. buy. pay for, bar- 
gain, < IX koojM-ii, buy, = 10. i-lirii/i. c.,' buy, bar- 
gain: sec I'lim/i. i:,rlnip~. r.. and i-litiji*. r. Cf. 
''/"' J I. trim.*. If. To bargain for; buy. 2. 
To make return for ; reward. [Archaic.] 
I and my friend 
Have, hy \.niv wi-ilnm. ln-cn this d'ay acquitted 
volls penalties; in lien w hereof. 
Three thousand diicaK due nut., the .lew. 
We freely <<>],: \oiir e<mi-t< -..n- pain-- withal. 
.S/iA-.. M. of V.. iv. 1. 
Il.t intrans. To bargain. 
For some good ilentleiuaii, that hath the right 
I nto his I him h Im to present a w i^lil. 
Will ,-.,; with Ihee ill reasonable wise; 
Tliat if the living >neU .im. arise 
To fortie iMiund, that then his yongest sonne 
Shall twetltie have, and tw. nti. th-.n lia-t wonnc. 
Mi'thei Hub. Tale. 
C0pe :! (kop). r. ; pret. and pp. nipi'il. ppr. coping. 
[\ late MK. copen, prob. a var. of coapen (E. 
I'Hii/ii ; i-f. aopaB, the same word in a technical 
sense), strike, fight, appar. later associated with 
ME. copen, buy, pay for, bargain; the notion 
of 'strive, contend' easily arising from that 
of 'bargain, chaffer.' See coup 1 , co;>e 2 .] I. 
intrans. To strive or contend on equal terms ; 
meet in combat ; oppose : often with a preced- 
ing negative or word of negative import, the 
verb then implying ' oppose with success ' : fol- 
lowed by with. 
I challenge ... all the Persian lords 
To cope leith me in single fight. 
M. Arnold, Sohrab and Rustum. 
A man who has persuaded himself that we are the crea- 
tures of circumstance, or that we are the victims of a 
necessity u-ith which it is impossible for us to cop?, will 
give up the battle with Nature and do nothing. 
J. A Seeley, Nat. Religion, p. 57. 
The small Ashing vessels, which were all that the Eng- 
lish ports could provide, were unable to cope with the 
large war vessels now used by the Danes. 
J, R. Green, C'onq. of Eng., p. 386. 
Two heads of evill he has to cope irith, ignorance and 
malice. Milton, Church-Government, ii. 3. 
Host cop'd mth host, dire was the din of war. Philip*. 
II. trans. To meet in contest or contention ; 
oppose; encounter. 
I love to cope him in these sullen Ats. 
Shale., As you Like it, 11. 1. 
Horatio, thon art e'en as just a man 
As e'er my conversation .-../../ withal. 
Shale., Hamlet, ill. 2. 
cope 4 (kop), n. [Origin obscure.] 1. An an- 
cient tribute due to the king or the lord of the 
soil out of the lead-mines in Derbyshire, Eng- 
land. 
In measuring the ore at the present time (1811), every 
twenty -fifth dish which is measured is taken or set aside, 
as the king's lot, cope, or duty. Farey. 
2. See coper 9 . 
cope 5 (kop), v. t. ; pret. and pp. coped, ppr. cop- 
ing. [Var. of coup 1 , q. v.] Infalconry, to cut, 
as the beak or talons of a hawk. Encyc. Brit. 
copeck, kopeck (ko'pek), n. [Also written co- 
peek ; = V. copeck = G. kopekt; etc., repr. Russ. 
kopielka, also spelled koprika, a copeck, < kopati 
(= OBulg. kopati, etc.), cut, grave, dig.] A de- 
nomination of Russian silver and copper coins. 
Copernicia 
Copenhagen i k - pn - lui ' un i. . [Named from 
i n/ii nlinii' n (l)nii. Kfnlii nliiini). tin' capital of 
DcMiiiark.] 1. A hot drink ma<lo with spirit, 
sugar, and beaten eggs. 2. A children's game 
in which the players form a circle with their 
hands on a rope, and one insiilr the circlr tries 
to touch the hands of any other player and kittx 
that one before he or one can get inside the 
rope. 
copepod (ko'pe-pod), a. and . I. a. Of or per- 
taining to the I'opcpoda. Also copepodous. 
Mniost every flih has Koiin Innn oi ' theM Copepod para- 
sites, cillier on its skin, Its eyes, or its gills. 
Jtncyc. Brit., VI. 064. 
II. H. < )no of the Copepoila. 
Also roptpmltiii. 
Copepoda (ko-pep'o-da), w. pi. [NL., more cor- 
rectly Copopoaa, q.' v.','< Gr. tunn, an par, prop. 
the handle of an oar, any handle, + volt (TO/I-) = 
E.foot.] An order of minute entomostracous 
fresh-water and marine Cnmtacea: so named be- 
cause their five pairs of feet are mostly used for 
swimming. 
Side View of a Female Cyclops, 
a typical Copepod, carrying a pair 
of ovisacs. (Magnified.) 
/', eye : //'. anlennule ; ///', an- 
tenna ; ' 
xill 
The body in divided int.. several rings, the 
cuirass or carapace . "\. is 
the head and thorax, and 
the mouth isfurnUhed with 
foot-jaws. The females car- 
ry their eggs, when they 
are expelled from the ova- 
rium, in two bags at the 
base of the tail. The young 
present a form differing 
greatly from that of the 
parents. The limits of the 
order vary with different 
authors to some extent, 
the Ay/.-..'/ (siphonosto- 
inous and lernteoid para- 
itic crmtacrans) being, in 
art or as a whole, often 
ncluded, and then distin- 
guished as Paratita or 
SiphimoKtoniata from the 
GnathoKtornala or Eucope- 
poda, or copepods proper ; 
in this case the Copepoda 
may )>e defined as entomos- 
tracous crustaceans with 
elongated and usually well- 
par 
inel 
2. 3. 4. 5, 
trum ; lo, 
'"'.^S'lna^lkti: seated;' Ibodyrwithou-t 
, . 
thoracic limbs ; R. ros- 
labrum. 
Copeck of Emperor Nicholas, in the British Museum. 
( Size of the original.) 
Tin- coins of this name current since 1855 are : in silver, 
the 25-copeek piece, and pieces of 20, 15, 10, and ."> copecks ; 
in copper, pieces of 1, 2, and 3 copecks. The copeck, reck- 
oned as the hundredth part of a ruble, is worth 0.582 
rnited States rent. 
Copelatae, Copelata (ko-pe-la'te, -ta), n. pi. 
[NL., pi. of copelata (or, in form Copelata, 
neut. pi., accom. to -rtte 2 ), < Gr. /twrrr;?.arvf, a 
rower (KUTryZaTrif iroWirowf, the nautilus: see 
/'"'.'//'), ( KUXII, a handle, esp. of an oar, also the 
oar itself (prob. akin to E. haft, q. v. ), + i%a- 
nic, a driver, < ifMvvciv (e).a-), drive.] A prime 
division of ascidians or tunicaries, distinguish- 
ing the tailed ascidians or Appeiuliculariidai 
from the ordinary sea-squirts or ACOJUI. 
copelate (ko'pe-lat), a. [< Copelata, accom. to 
adjectives in -atel.j Of or pertaining to the 
Cll/:i In/If. 
COpemant (kop'man), n. [< P. koopman = E. 
fhapmnn : see rlmpiiitin, fhu/i*.~] A chapman; 
a dealer. 
He would have sold his part of I'aradi-e 
For ready money, had he met a <-<iji. nin. 
B. Jimstm, Volpone, iii. .">. 
shell-forming rednplica 
t nre of the skin or abdom- 
inal appendages, and with 
hiramous swimming-feet (Cfciti*). The order is commonly 
known as that of the oar-footed crustaceans. Some forms., 
as .Yofo</W/jA.v, are commensal in the branchial sac of us- 
cidian.i. A species, CetochilM* nejtrntritmalit, forms much 
of the food of whales. Also Copnpoda. 
copepodan (ko-pep'o-dan), a. and . Same as 
copepod. 
copepodous (ko-pep'o-dus), a. [As cnpepod + 
-rt.t.] Same as copepod. 
copepod-stage (ko'pe-pod-staj), . In zoiil., a 
stage in the development of 
some of the stalk-eyed crusta- 
ceans, as a prawn, when the 
larva (a zoea) resembles an 
adult copepod. 
In this stage [of Prnau], which an- 
swers to the so-called Zoea-fonn of 
other I'odophthalmia, the principal 
locomotive organs are the antennee 
and anteiinules, ami the resemblance 
to an adult copepod is so striking 
that it may be termed the copepod- 
ttfitri'. Huxley, Anat. Invert., p. 301. 
coper 1 t, . An obsolete spell- 
ing of copper. 
C0per 2 t (ko ' per), . [< cop2 
+ -eri.] A seller; a dealer. 
coper 3 *, n. [< rope* + -rl.] 
A miner : so called from his working at a certain 
price or cope per ton or load of ore mined. 
Farcy. [North. Eng.] 
Copernican (ko-per'ni-kan), n. and n. I. a. 
Pertaining to Copernicus "(originally Kopper- 
nigk, 1473-1543), a Prussian Pole and a cele- 
brated astronomer, who, in a work published 
in 1")43, promulgated the now received theory 
that the earth and the planets revolve about the 
sun ; pertaining to or in accord with the astro- 
nomical doctrines of Copernicus. - Copernican 
system, the solar system as conceived hy * 'opernicns, with 
the sun in the center. ('"|>ernicHS did not conceive the 
planets to move in ellipsis, as they are now known to 
move, hut in ejiiryelic orhits. 
II. n. An adherent of the astronomical doc- 
trini's of Copernicus. 
Copernicia (ko-per-nis'i-a), n. [Named in honor 
of the astronomer I'n/n riiifiin (a Latinized form 
of Kn/'/'ii-iiii//:. a name of Polish origin).] A 
genus of tall, handsome fan-palms, of tropi- 
cal America, including eight species. The most 
important s|'e.-i, s is the camauha or wax-palm of Brazil, 
C. err ; Inch are coated wilh a 
hard vvitx. The trunk furnishes a very bard wood used 
for huilding. veneering, and other purposes. 
Zoea- or Copepod- 
stage of a Prawn ( /V- 
TifHi}. highly magni- 
fied. 
