Coppinia 1256 
Coppinia (ko-pin'i-a), . [NL., from a proper 
name, Coppin.] The typical genus of the family 
Coppiniidai. C. arcta is a greenish-yellow spe- 
cies iucrusting the stems of other zoophytes. 
Coppiniidae (kop-i-ni'i-de), n. pi. [NL., < C'op- 
pinia + -idie.~] A family of calyptoblastic or 
thecophorous hydroid polyps, represented by 
the genus Coppinia. 
COppleH (kop'l), . [Dim. of cop 1 .] Anything 
rising to a point or summit; a hill. 
It is a low cape, and upon it is a copple, not very high. 
Hakluyt's Voyages. 
copple 2 (kop'l), . Same as cupel. 
copple-crown (kop'l-kroun), n. [< copple 1 + 
crown.'] 1. The crested crown or head of a 
bird. 
Like the copple-crown 
The lapwing has. Randolph, Amyntas, ii. 8. 
2. A hen with a crest or top-knot. Also cropple- coprolite (kop'ro-lit), w. [< Gr. n6n-pof, dung, 
crown. [New Eng.] + /Uft>?, a stone. Cf. coprolith.] Ahardround- 
coppled (kop'ld), a. [< copple 1 + -ed?. Cf. 
copped.'] Same as copped. 
copple-dust (kop'l -dust), n. Same as cupel- 
dust. 
COpplestone (kop'1-ston), . Same as cobble 
or cobblestone. See cobblel. 
coppo (kop'po), n. ; pi. coppi (-pi). [It., a_pitch- 
a large 
Feiiiale Carolina Tumble-bug {Copris Carolina}, natural size. 
thorax, and striate elytra, c. hmaris is a black 
European dung-beetle. C. Carolina, C. anaglypticus, and 
C. inmutus are species of the eastern United States. 
er: see cup.'] 1. In ceram., a large Tuscan 
earthenware vessel used for holding oil, grain, 
etc. 2. An Italian oil-measure, equal in Lucca 
and Modena to 26f United States (old wine) 
gallons: but in the Lombardo- Venetian sys- 
tem of 1803 the coppo or cappo was precisely a 
deciliter. 
ish stony mass, consisting of the petrified fecal 
matter of animals, chiefly of extinct reptiles or 
sauroid fishes. In variety of size and external form 
the coprolites resemble oblong pebbles or kidney potatoes. 
They for the most part range from 2 to 4 inches in length, 
and from 1 to 2 inches in diameter ; but some few are 
much larger, as those of the Ichthyosauri, within whose 
ribs masses have been found in situ. They are found 
chiefly in the Lias and the coal-measures. They contain in 
many cases undigested portions of the prey of the animals 
which have voided them, as fragments of scales, shells, 
i 11,111- vuiuctt iiM'ni. oa 1 1 ,'ii:Miri 1 1 > ui scales, Blieiltf, . . i ' - '. .. . 
etc. Coprolites thus indicate the nature of the food, and COpStlCfc (kop stik), 
to some extent the intestinal structure, of the animal n. [G. kopfstiick. < 
which voided them. They are found in such quantities in 
some localities, as parts of South Carolina, that the mining 
of the phosphatic rock formed by them for manure con- 
stitutes an important industry. 
Coptocycla 
3. To inclose as in a copse. 
Nature itself hath coptted and bounded us in. 
Farindon, Sermons (1657), p. 439. 
H. intrans. To form a coppice ; grow up again 
from the roots after being cut down, as brush- 
wood. [Rare in all its uses.] 
Also coppice. 
copsewood (kops'wud), . A low growth of 
shrubs and bushes; wood treated as coppice 
and cut down at certain periods. See coppice. 
The side of every hill where the copsewood grew thick. 
Macaulay, Hist. Eng., iii. 
Copsichus (kop'si-kus), n. [NL. ; also written 
Copsichos, and improp. Copsychos ; < Gr. it6il>ix o f> 
another form of n6aavifio<;, Attic Korrtxjmf, a sing- 
ing bird, prob. the blackbird, or black ouzel, 
Turdus merula.~\ 1 . A genus of turdoid or den- 
tirostral oscine passerine birds, of uncertain 
limits and systematic position. It is now com- 
monly referred to the family Tuniidce, and restricted to 
the dayals or magpie- 
robins of India and the 
East Indies, such as the 
Indian C. mularis, the 
Ceylonese C. ceylonen- 
tds, etc. 
2. The ring-ouzels 
of Europe : a syno- 
nym of Merula. J. 
COppy (kop'i), n. ; pi. coppies (-iz). A dialectal coprplith (kop'ro-lith), n. [< Gr. Ko:rpoc, dung, 
form of coppice. + faOos, a stone.] 1. A ball of hardened feces 
Copra (kop'ra), n. [Native name.] The dried or other impacted mass in the bowels ; a scyba- 
kernel of the cocoanut, one of the principal ar- lum. 2. A coprolite. 
tides of export from the islands of the Pacific coprolitic (kop-ro-lit'ik), a. [< coprolite + -ic.] 
to Europe, where the oil is expressed. It is fre- Composed of, resembling, or containing copro- 
quently used as an ingredient of curry. Also 
written cobra, coprah, and copperah. 
We saw also . . . coprah, or dried cocoa-nut kernels, Coprophagi. 
broken into small pieces in order that they may stow bet- Copropnagl (ko-prof a-ji), n. pi. 
ter. Lady Brassey, Voyage of Sunbeam, I. xiv. 
Dayal, or Magpie-robin (Cofstchus 
saularis). 
coprophagan (ko-prof'a-gan), n. One of the 
copraeraia, copremia (ko-pre'mi-a), n. [NL. 
coprcemia, < Gr. /i7r/K>f, dung, ordure, + di/ia, 
blood.] In patliol., a polluted condition of the 
blood caused by the absorption of fecal matter 
in cases of obstruction of the bowels. 
coprophagus : see coprophagous.~] The tumble- 
bugs, dung-beetles, dung-feeding scarabs, or 
shard-borne beetles; a section of lamellicorn 
beetles, typified by the sacred beetle (Scara- 
the 
kopf (= AS. cop, E. 
cop 1 ), head, + stuck 
(= AS. stycce), 
piece.] An old sil- 
ver coin used in 
many parts of Ger- 
many, worth 16$ 
cents United States 
money after 1763, and previously nearly 2 cents 
more. It generally bore the same device as 
the rix-dollar. 
COpsy (kop'si), a. [< copse + -y 1 .] Having 
J.NL., pi. of copses; covered with coppice or copses. 
The Flood 
And trading Bark with low contracted Sail, 
Linger among the Reeds and copsy Banks. 
Dyer, Fleece, i. 
cppt^j a. Another spelling of copped. 
The effect of this form of blood-poisoning, to which the COprOpftagist (ko-prof'a-jist), . 
d-poi, 
term coprcemia may not improperly be applied, is seen in 
the sallow, dirty hue of the skin. 
Barnes, Dis. of Women, p. 604. 
gous + -ist.'] 
see). 
']. \_Ascoproplui- 
An animal that eats dung. 
COpremesis (ko-prem'e-sis), re. 
dung, feees, + 
[NL., < Gr. n6- 
But there are real coprophagistg or dung-eaters among 
birds. W. Marshall, Pop. Sci. Mo., XXX. 605. 
coprophagous (ko-prof'a-gus), a. [< NL. co- 
or filth : applied to various insects, and specifi- 
cally to the Coprophagi. 
Insects are carnivorous, insectivorous, . . . copropha- 
gous. Edinburgh Rev., CLXIV. 358. 
Kibti. Origin uncertain ; variously referred to 
Gr. Al-yvvT-of, Egypt; or to Gr. Ko;rTOf, Koirru, 
mod. Kobt or Eoft, an ancient town of Egypt, 
near Thebes ; or to Gr. 'Imca/Hnif, Jacobite.] A 
native Egyptian ; an Egyptian Christian, espe- 
cially one of the sect of Monophysites. The 
Copts are descendants of the ancient Egyptians, and for- 
merly spoke the Coptic language. After the Council of 
Chalcedon (A. D. 451) the majority of Egyptian Chiistians 
separated from the Orthodox Church, and have ever since 
had their own succession of patriarchs. Their number is 
now very small. The Abyssinian or Ethiopic Church is a 
part of the Coptic communion, and its abuna or metran is 
The copresence of other laws. 
Emerson. 
I should be glad to think that the co-presence of opposite 
theologies among men apparently committed to the same 
was attributable simply to ambiguous and illogical expres- 
n/mf, dung, feees, + Ifieaif, vomiting, < e uelv, - - / n ~ + r ~ 
vomit: see vomit, emetic.-] In pathol.,the vom- propha.gvs, < Gr. wwrpofzyof dung-eating, < K 6- 
iting of fecal matter; stercoraceous vomiting. "W., du ng, +.*$&, eat.] Peedmgupon dung 
COpremic (ko-pre'mik), a. [< coprwmia + -ic.] 
Affected with coprsemia. 
COpresbyter (ko-pres'bi-ter), n. [< co- 1 + pres- 
byter.'] A fellow-presbyter; a member of the 
same presbytery with another or others. Coprophilida (kop-ro-fil'i-da), n. pi. [NL. always choserf and Tconsecrated'by the Coptic patriarch" 
COpresence(ko-prez'ens),M. [< co- 1 + presence.'] (Heer, 1839), < Coprophilus + -ida.} A tribe of See fmophymte. 
The state or condition of being present along beetles, of the family Staphylinidce and subfam- The Cop( 8 begin their reckoning from the era of Diocle- 
with others ; associated presence. ily Oxytelince, typified by the genus CopropMug. ' Modem Egyptians, I. 279. 
They have 11-jointed antennas, 5-jointed tarsi, filiform Coptic (kop'tik), a. and n. [< NL. Copticus, < 
last palpal joint, and recurved borders of the abdomen. ML. CopJiti, Copts.] I. a. Pertaining to the 
Co^opMini ^S^^^S&S^, lft fX bV^ r* H frOIU F he ^ an8and ther 
CoprophiUdes(Lacordam 1854). inhabitants of modern Egypt. See II. 
* "it. 2. The language of the 
from the ancient Egyptian 
family of languages), and used 
in Egypt till within the last two centuries, but 
now superseded as a living language by Arabic. 
The two chief dialects are the Memphitic and Thebaic. 
It is still the liturgical language of the Coptic (Egyptian 
also of the thorax .^ r .~~R~mra * wf,, isf/tuu, -.uiiuenumg u oyc- llonophysite) Church, but the lections are read in Arabic 
Cnnrinjp Cko nin'nfil n nl riSTT < rwwt, -i- cies , of Europe, Africa, and South America, as as well as Coptic. 
Z?f The Apical sub^mil/oi ^S con- C ; Striatul < a Eur P ean s P ecies livin g der *&?* <&*'*$> * E< C ^\ + *'\ f* t 
i-i- !. .. , lv stotifis. kaloid, crystalhzing in colorless crystals, ob- 
tained from the plant Coptis trifolia. 
Coptis (kop'tis), n. [NL., < Gr. Kowretv, cut: in 
reference to the division of the leaves.] A 
small genus of plants, natural order Banvncv- 
laceas, natives of the north temperate zone, 
consisting of low smooth perennials with di- 
f amily of lamellicorn dung-beetles, typified by insect ; coprophagous. 
the genus Copris, and related to or merged in Coprophilus (ko-prof'i-lus), n. [NL. (Latreille, 
the Scarabceidtz. They have convex bodies, large heads 1829), < Gr. KoVpof, dung, + <t>tfj>t, loving ] The 
1 n?thl e ti t , i nl, clypeus> and ' in the malea ' P^ 60 " 0113 typical genus of Coprophilida, containing 5 spe- 
01 tne tnorax. f -.-i A j> j A j.i_ * _. _ * 
with 
also 
taming the largest and handsomest species, it L ni li. . , ^ , 
is especially an American group, though also represented COprOSCH, n. An obsolete form of copperas. 
in the old world. The first two joints of the labial palpi COprose- 1 (kop ros), n. Same as copper-rose. 
are dilated (except in Cantludium); the first is longer than COprOStasis (ko-pros'ta-sis), n. [< Gr. KOTT/IOC, 
the second, and the third is distinct. The antennse are duns feces + aramc sffiiidincr- SPA en/.V 1 Tn 
9-jointed, the head is free in repose, and the hind coxaj ,;',; !>% CT 'f) Standing, see Static.] In 
are obconic ; the fore tarsi are present or absent, chiefly as P atltol -i COStlveness. 
a sexual character, their absence being most frequent with COpSC (kops), n. See coppice. 
the males. 
Coprinus (ko-pri'nus), 
[NL., < Gr. KoV/>of, 
copse (kops), r. ; pret. and pp. copsed, ppr. cops- vided root-leaves and small white flowers on 
~ 
dung.] A genus of hymenomyeetous fungi| 
many species of which grow upon dung. The 
gills after maturity deliquesce and form an inky 
fluid. Coprinus comatus is edible. 
Copris (kop'ris), n. [NL., < Gr. xdTrpof, dung.] 
A genus of lamellicorn beetles, of the family 
Scarabaiido!, or made the type of a family Cop- 
ridce, having the lamellee of the antennal club 
alike, an expansive clypeus, a punctate pro- 
ing. [< copse, n. See coppice.'] I. trans. 1. To 
cut or trim, as brushwood, tufts of grass, and 
the like. 
By copring the starvelings in the places where they are 
new sown, [you may] cause them sometimes to overtake 
even their untouched contemporaries. 
Evelyn, Forest Trees, iii. 
2. To plant or preserve, as underwoods. 
scapes. A decoction of the leaves and stalks of C. M- 
fulin, found in Canada and the northern parts of the 
United States, is used by the Indians for coloring cloth 
and skins yellow. The yellow, thread-like rhizomes, 
whence the common name of goldthread, are used in medi- 
cine as a pure bitter tonic. The root of C. Teela, of China 
and India, known as Mishmi bitter, has been long in re- 
pute in India as a remedy for diseases of the eye, and is still 
in use as a bitter tonic. The species are found to contain 
an unusual percentage of berberine. 
The neglect of copring wood cut down hath been of very Coptocycla (kop-to-sik'lii), w. [NL. (Chevrolat, 
evil consequence. Swift, Address to Parliament. 1834), < Gr. /corrrof, chopped small, pounded 
