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Abiy. Oh, will you kill me? copyright, an international arrangement by which the 
Rog. I do not think I can; right of an author residing in one country may lie prn- 
You 're like a eoityliold, with nine lives in 't. tected by copyright in such other countries as are parties 
tl'-tn/. and /-7., Scornful Lady, iv. 1. to the arrangement. 
There was even a manor court which took cognizance Copyright (kop'i-rit), r. t. To secure a copy- 
of their rights, and in which the ancient, though inferior, 
title of copyhold, or a right to land by virtue of a copy of 
the roll of the manor court, may be said to have been in- 
vented. British Quarterly Ken., LXXXIII. 274. 
', by complying with 
e law; enter for copy- 
An obsolete or dialec- 
2. Land held in copyhold. 
Item, to the thyrde we saye that no coppy-holder that //\/]up ("kok^ n FF lit a shell 
doeth surrender hvs couinthidde oughte to pave any her- ^ i T o -i * ' n i '' i 
ryott vpon the surrender of hys cnppyhulcleexcepteyt be Cockle*.] A small bow or loop of r 
right of, as a book or 
the requirements of 
right. 
copweb (kop'web), re. 
tal form of cobweb. 
see cock*, 
ribbon used 
in extremis of deathe. English Gilds (E. E. T. s"), p^ 441. in decorative trimming. 
Enfranchisement of copyhold lands. See enfran- COquelicot (kok'li-ko), re. [Also written coque- 
lico; F. coquelicot, formerly coquelicoq, wild 
poppy : so called from its resemblance in color 
to a cock's crest, the word being a variant of 
coquelicoq, coquelicon, coquerico, an imitation of 
A copyholder is a tenant of a manor who is said to hold 
his tenement " at the will of the lord according to the 
custom of the manor. " This means that the tenant's rights 
are nominally dependent on the will of the lord ; but the 
chixcirit'nt. 
copyholder 1 (kop't-hoKder), n. 
-er^.] 
hold. 
[< copyliold + 
One who is possessed of land in copy- 
lord is bound to exercise his will according to the custom, 
the cry of a cock, cockadoodle-doo : see cock 1 .] 
Wild poppy; corn-rose; hence, the color of 
wild poppy ; a color nearly red, or red mixed 
with orange. 
so that the tenant is really as safe as if he were an abso- COquett, . and a. See cockefi and coquette. 
lute owner. F. Pollock, Land Laws, p. 43. coquet (ko-ket'), ' ; pret. and pp. coquetted, 
A copyholder is not a hirer but an owner of land. 
Maine, Early Law and Custom, p. 322. 
copy-holder 2 (kop'i-hol"der), n. 1. Inprinting, 
a proof-reader's assistant, who reads the copy 
aloud or follows it while the proof is read, for 
the detection of deviations from it in the proof. 
2. A device for holding copy in its place, as 
on a printer's frame or on a type-writer. 
copying-ink (kop'i-ing-ink), n. 1. A writing- 
fluid, containing sugar or some other viscous 
substance, used for writings intended to be du- 
plicated by a copying-press. 2. A printing- 
ink used in printing blanks, letter-heads, etc., 
from which letter-press copies may afterward from vanity; endeavor to gam admirers 
be taken. 
copying-machine (kop'i-ing-ma-shen''), n. 
Same as copying-press. 
copying-paper (kop'i-ing-pa/per), n. Thin un- 
sized paper used in duplicating writings by a 
copying-press. 
copying-pencil (kop'i-ing-pen"sil), n. A pencil 
composed of graphite, kaolin or gum arabic, 
ppr. enqueuing, [= D. koketteren = G. coquct- 
tiren = Dan. kokettere = Sw. kokettera, < F. co- 
queter, coquet, flirt, orig. swagger or strut like 
a cock, < coquet, a little cock, hence a beau, 
fern, coquette, a coquette, as adj. coquettish : 
see cocket 3 , coquette.'] I. trans. To attempt, 
out of vanity, to attract the notice, admiration, 
or love of; entertain with compliments and 
amorous flattery ; treat with an appearance of 
amorous tenderness. 
You are coquetting a maid of honour. Suri/t. 
II. intrans. 1. To trifle in love ; act the lover 
coracias 
shells. This motive of decoration was common 
in the Louis XV. style. See rococo. 
COquilla-nut (ko-ke'lya-nut), n. The fruit of 
the palm Attalea funifera, one of the cocoanut 
group, a native of Brazil. The nut is 3 or 4 inches 
long, oval, of a rich brown color, and consists of a very 
hard, thick shell with two small kernels in the center. 
The shell is extensively used in turnery, and especially for 
making ornamental ends for umbrella-handles. See piax- 
sava. 
coquille (ko-kel'), re. [F., lit. a shell: see 
cocWe 2 .] A part of the guard of a sword-hilt. 
See hilt and shell. 
coquillo (ko-kel'yo), n. [Sp., a small shell, a 
cocoanut, etc. : see cockle' 2 .] The physic-nut, 
Jatropha Curcas. 
coquimbite (ko-kim'bit), n. [< Coquimbo (see 
def.) + -ite 2 .]' A hydrous sulphate of iron, of 
a white or yellowish color, forming beds in a 
trachytic rock in the province of Coquimbo, 
Chili. Also called white copperas. 
Coquimbo (ko-kim'bo), n. [S. Amer.] The 
burrowing owl of South America, Upeotyto cu- 
iiiriilaria. See Speotyto, and cut under oirl. 
coquina (ko-ke'na), n. [< Sp. coquina, shell- 
fish in general, also cockle, dim. < L. concha, a 
shell: see conch, cockle 2 .] A rock made up of 
fragments of marine shells, slightly consolidat- 
ed by pressure and infiltrated calcareous mat- 
Young ashes pirouetted down, 
Coquetting with young beeches. 
Tennyson, Amphion. 
Hence 2. To trifle, in general; act without 
seriousness or decision. 
The French affair had dragged on. Elizabeth had co- 
quetted with it as a kitten plays with a ball. 
Froude, Hist. Eng., viii. 
and blue-violet aniline. Marks made with it can Coquetoon (kok-e-ton'), n. An antelope of west- 
be reproduced in the copying-press like those ern Africa, Ceplialoplius rufilatus. P.L.Sclatcr. 
of copying-ink. coquetry (ko'ket-ri), re. ; pi. coquetries (-riz). 
copying-press (kop'i-ing-pres), re. A machine lA F - coquetterie, < coquette, a coquette.] Effort 
for copying any piece of writing in facsimile, or * attract admiration, notice, or love, from van- 
for producing duplicates of letters, invoices, lfv " p fnr a-TniiacTnont nffontofi^n nf om ,v,, 
and other manuscripts. There are several varieties, 
but generally the original document is written with a 
special kind of ink, and a copy is obtained from it on thin 
paper which has been dampened, by means of pressure. 
Also called copying-machine. 
copying-ribbon (kop'i-ing-rib' / on), n. A ribbon 
prepared with copying-ink, for use in a type- 
writer when the copy is to be duplicated. 
copyism (kop'i-izm), re. [< copy + -ism.] The 
practice of copying or imitating ; mere imita- 
tion. [Rare.] 
or for amusement ; affectation of amorous 
tenderness ; trifling in love. 
Women . . . without a dash of coqrietry. 
Addison, Spectator. 
Coquetry, with all its pranks and teasings, makes the 
spice to your dinner the mulled wine to your supper. 
D. G. Mitchell, Reveries of a Bachelor, ii. 
= Syn. See flirtation. 
Coquetta bark. See bark%. 
coquette ( ko-ket'), re. and a. [Formerly also 
coquet (originally applied to men as well as to 
women) ; < F. coquette, a coquette, a flirt, a pert 
. , , , 
MM. Gaucherel Rajon, and Brunet-Debaines have in- or flippant woman, prop. fern, of coquet, a beau, 
r P retOI " e f the most d"" am nt *e later ag ad *jfcoquettish, flirting, lit. a little cock : see 
cocket 3 , which is the same word in earlier form.] 
I. re. 1. A woman who endeavors to gain the 
admiration of men; a vain, selfish, trifling wo- 
man > wno ende avors to attract admiration and 
some of the most difficult amongst the later 
works of Turner in a manner which recalls them vividly 
to our recollection, which is far better than heavy, unin- 
telligent copyism. Hamerton, Graphic Arts, p. 444. 
copyist (kop'i-ist). .. [< copy + -ist, after F. 
copiste : see copist.] A copier ; a transcriber ; 
an imitator; specifically, one whose occupation advances m love, for the gratification of her 
is to transcribe documents or other manu- vamt y j a fli r * j a jilt- 
scripts. 
No original writer ever remained so unrivalled by suc- 
ceeding copyists as this Sicilian master [Theocritus]. 
J. Warton, Essay on Pope, i. 9. 
Copy-money (kop't-mun''!), n. Money paid for 
copy or copyright; compensation for literary 
work. Boswell. 
They (papers on electricity] swelled to a quarto volume, 
which has had five editions, and cost him (the publisher] 
nothing for copy-money. Franklin, Autobiog., I. 345. 
copyopia (kop-i-6'pi-a), n. In pathol., fatigue 
or weariness of vision ; weakness " 
popsia. 
copyright 
Exclusive right to mi 
copies of an intellectual' production (Drone) ; 
the right which the law affords for protecting 
t.nP TiTnHllP.O flf TnaTt'a in + olla/f nol *Ti<-liici4-nr fr*n^ 
A cold, vain and interested coquette . . . who could ven- 
ture to flirt with a succession of admirers in the just con- 
fidence that no flame which she might kindle in them 
would thaw her own ice. Macaulay, Hist. Eng., xix. 
The slight coquette, she cannot love. 
Tennyson, Early Sonnets, vii. 
2. pi. A group of crested humming-birds, of the 
genus Lophornis (which see). 
II. t . Coquettish ; like a coquette. 
Coquet and Coy at once her Air, 
Both study'd. Congreve, Amoret. 
He was last week producing two or three letters which 
he writ in his youth to a coquette lady. 
Addison, The Man of the Town. 
bv nracn 
by r P raetism g 
A l miii * h manner 
'' * 
the produce of man's intellectual industrv from 
being made use of by others without adequate 
recompense to him (Broom and Haclley). it a 
right given hy law for a limited number of years, upon cer- 
tarn conditions, to the originator of a book or other writing, ... ,, ., . , ,,.,,., 
painting, sculpture, design, photograph, musical composi- COquettlShly (ko-ket ish-li), adv. 
tion, in similar production, or to his assignee. It corre- tish manner. 
spondsto the patent of an invention.- Copyright acts, coauillasre (F. nron. ko-ke-lyazh'), n. [F., a 
< coquittc, a shell : see co- 
.. . ___________ _____________ .09(8 quuie, cocKie.] In decorative art, an imitation 
Anne, c. 21, or c. 19 in some editions). International of shells, or the use of forms borrowed from 
. T ' ls th "=' S P 
Temmson Maud vi 
In a coquet- 
ter. The name is chiefly applied to a rock of this kind 
occurring on the east coast of Florida, and used to some 
extent as a building material. 
coquito (ko-ke'to), n. [Sp., a small cocoanut, 
dim. of coco, cocoanut.] The Juba'a spectabi- 
lis, a very beautiful palm of Chili, allied to the 
cocoanut, and growing to a height of 40 or 50 
feet. It bears numerous small edible nuts, and the sap, 
obtained by felling the trees, is boiled to a sweet syrup, 
which, under the name of palm-honey (miel de palnin), is 
highly esteemed in the domestic economy of the Chilians. 
cor 1 (kor), n. [L. cor (cord-) = Gr. napdia = 
E. heart: see core 1 and heart.] The heart, in 
the anatomical sense ; the physiologically cen- 
tral organ of the system of blood-vessels Cor 
Carol!. [NL. : L. cor = E. heart; Carol! , gen. of SIL. 
Carolus, Charles (in sense (6) with reference to Charles's 
Wain) : see heart and carl.] (a) A heart made of silver 
or gold, sometimes set with jewels, symbolizing the heart 
of King Charles I. of England. It was worn or carried 
by enthusiastic royalists, (b) A yellowish star of the 
third magnitude, below and behind the tail of the Great 
Bear, designated by Flamsteed as 12 Canum Veiiaticorum, 
but treated as a constellation on the globe of Senex (Lon- 
don, 1740) and by some other English astronomers. Cor 
Hydras [L. (NL.), the heart of Hydra: cor = E. heart; 
Hydra, gen. of Hydra], a star of the first magnitude in 
the southern constellation Hydra. See cut under Hydra. 
CorLeoniBlL. (NL.), the heart of Leo : cor = E. lieart ; 
leonis, gen. of leo, a lion : see lion], another name for Re- 
gulus, a star of the first magnitude in the constellation 
Leo. See cut under Leo. Cor Scorpionis 1 1... the heart 
of Scorpio : cor = E. heart ; ttcorpionts, gen. of *corpio(n-\ 
a scorpion, the constellation Scorpio], another name for 
Antares, a star of the first magnitude in the zodiacal con- 
stellation Scorpio. Cor VUlOSUm |NL., villous heart], a 
heart the external surface of which is made rough and 
shaggy by a pericarditic nbrinous exudation. 
C0r 2 t, n. See core 3 , corps 2 . 
cor 3 t, . [Origin obscure.] A kind of fish. 
A salmon, cor, or chevin, 
Will feed you six or seven. 
Jl. Jontum, The Honour of Wales. 
C01 4 (kor), n. [Heb.] A Hebrew and Phenician 
oil-measure, supposed to be equal to 36 United 
States (old wine) gallons. The cor (translated 
measure) is mentioned in Luke xvi. 7 as a dry 
measure. Also chor. 
Concerning the ordinance of oil, the bath of oil, ye shall 
offer the tenth part of a bath out of the cor, which is an 
homer of ten baths. Ezek. xlv. 14. 
cor-. Assimilated form of com-, con-, before r. 
See cam-. 
Cor. An abbreviation of Corinthians. 
Cora, . See corah. 
coracaeromial (kor"ak-a-kr6'mi-al), a. Same 
as coraco-acromiiih 
Coracia (ko-ra'si-a), n. [NL. (Brisson, 1760), 
< Gr. KO/XZ|, a raven, a crow: see Corax.] A 
genus of corvine birds, including the chough 
or red-legged crow, C. graculus, usually called 
Pyrrhocorajc or Fregilus araciilus. See cut un- 
der chough. 
coracias (ko-ra'si-as), re. [Gr. Kopaitiac, a kind 
of raven or crow, < Ko/xzf (napaK-), a ravon. a 
crow : see Cora*.] If. An Aristotelian name 
of some bird described as being like a crow and 
red-billed : either the red-legged chough, I'yr- 
rliiicanij' i/riiciiliix. or the alpine, P. alpimis. 
2. [(/.] [NL.] In minimi urnitli. : (of) Same 
as Coracia. Vicillot, 1816. (6) The typical ge- 
nus of the fiimily Ci>riti'iiilii'. containing the true 
rollers, such as Coracias f/arnila of Europe and 
Africa, and other species, not related to crows, 
nor even of the same order of birds. See roller. 
