COP 
about 119. W. Ion. from Greenwich. The accounts 
brought by the Indians of tltis river to the Britifli ports 
in Hudfon’s bay, and the fpecimens of copper produced 
by them, induced Mr. Hearne to fet out from Fort Prince 
of Wales, in December 1770, on a journey of difcovery. 
He reached the river on the 14th of July, at forty miles 
didance from the lea, and found it all the way incum¬ 
bered with Ihoals and falls, and emptying itfelf into it 
over a dry flat of the fhore, the tide being then out, 
which feemed by the edges of the ice to rife about twelve 
or fourteen feet. This rife, on account of the falls, will 
carry it but a very fmall way within the river’s mouth ; 
fo that tire water in it has not the lead brackifh tafte. 
Mr. Hearne had the melt extenfive view of the fea, which 
bore north-wed by wed and nortn-ead ; when he was 
about eight miles up the river. The fet* at the river’s 
mouth is full of illands and flioals; but the ice was only 
thawed away about three-fourths of a mile from the 
fhore, on the 17th of July. The Efquimaux Indians had 
a quantity of whale-bone and feal-fkins at their tents on 
the fhore. 
COP'PERSMITH,/ One that manufactures copper : 
Salmoneus, as the Grecian tale is, 
Was a mad cuppcrfmitk of Elis ; 
Up at his forge by morning peep. §p’{ft. 
COP'PERWORM,/ [ teredo , Lat.J A little worm in 
fliips. A worm that fretteth garments. A worm breed¬ 
ing in one’s hand. Ainfworth. 
COP'PERY, adj. Containing copper; made of cop¬ 
per..—Some fprings of Hungary, highly impregnated with 
vitriolic falts, diifolve the body of iron put into the fpring, 
and depoflte, in lieu of the irony particles carried off, cop¬ 
pery particles brought with the water out of the neigli r 
bouring copper-mines. Woodward. 
COP'PET, a town and barony of Swifferland, fltuated 
on a lake of Geneva, in the bailiwick of Nion, and can¬ 
ton of Bern. The cadle of Coppet flood an obdinate 
liege in 1536, when the Bernois conquered the country.of 
Valid;, it was then veiled in the houfe of Saluzzo. it 
belonged lately to the celebrated Mr. Neckar : four miles 
fouth of Nion. 
COP'PICE,/ [ coupeaux , Fr. from coupcr, to cut or lop. 
It is often written copj'e. ] Low woods cut at dated times 
for fuel ; a place over-run with brufh-wood, or under¬ 
wood.—In coppice woods, if you leave daddies too thick, 
they run to bodies and briars, and have little clean un¬ 
derwood. Bacon. 
The willows, and the hazel copfes green, 
Shall now no more be feen 
Fanningjbeir joyous leaves to their foft lays. Milton. 
COP'PLE-DUST,/, [probably for coppel, or cupel-dujl. ] 
Powder ufed in purifying metals, or the grofs parts fepa- 
rated by the cupel.—It may be alfo tried by incorpo¬ 
rating powder of deel, or coppk-dujl, by pouncing into the 
quickdlver. Bacon. 
COP'PLE-STONES, are lumps and fragments of done 
or marble, broke from the adjacent cliffs, rounded by be¬ 
ing bowled and tumbled to and again by the aclion.of the 
water. Wuodtvard. 
COP'PLED, adj. Rifing in a conic form ; riling to a 
point.—There is fome difference in this fhape, fome be¬ 
ing flatter on the top, others more coppltd. Woodward. 
COPROCRI'TICA, f. [of dung, and jqpr i n'§>■’, 
from y.giva, to fecerm] Medicines which purge away the 
excrements. 
COPROPFIO'RIA, / [y.o 7 r^ocpo^ioo, of y.eorg®', and (ptqui, 
Gr.] Purgation or purging. 
OOPROS'M A,/, [from Hcirfo;, dung; and oo-p.j), fmell; 
the fil'd fpecies fuelling very drong like dung.] In bo¬ 
tany, a genus of the clafs polygamia, order monoecia, 
natuual order dellatae. The generic characters are—Her¬ 
maphrodite. Calyx : periantluum one-leafed, inferior, 
very lhort, permanent; with five acute didanttoothlets. 
i 
GOP 1:9 
Corolla : one petalled,' funnel-form, five or fix cleft; feg- 
ments acute, erect. Stamina: filaments five, fix, or (even, 
capillary ; antherte oblong, bifid at the bafe, erect, (lightly 
incurved, acuminate. Pidillum: germ oblong; dyles 
two, filiform, cohering digluly at the bafe, longer than 
the corolla, divaricating; digmas fn'nple. Pericarpium: 
berry ovate-globular, tvvo-feeded. Seeds: two, ovate,' 
flat on one fide, convex on the other. Male. Calyx ; 
corolla ; ftamina; as in the hermaphrodite.— E/J'ential 
CharaElcr. Calyx, one-leafed, five-toothed; corolla, five 
or fix-cleft; fiamina, five, fix, or (even; hermaphrodite, 
dyles two, long; berry, containing two flattidi feeds. 
Species. 1. Coprofmafoetidiflimu, or dinkingcoprofma : 
flowers (blitary. 2. Coprofma lucida, or (hining coprof¬ 
ma : peduncles compound. Thefe are dirubs; leaves 
oppolite, with a-dipule interpofing ; peduncles axillary, 
one of many-flowered ; flowers male and hermaphrodite ; 
corolla differently divided, and the number of da mens 
uncertain, from five to feven. The fird has a fmell abo¬ 
minably fetid. Difcovered with the following, Novem¬ 
ber 12, 1773, in (/men Charlottee’s Sound, New Zea¬ 
land. 
COPROS'TACYi, f. [y.oTr^o^oicr ia, ofzo7r^© j , and ic-egi, 
Gr. ] Codivenefs ; ■ a confiipation of the bowels. 
COPSE, / [abbreviated from coppice.'] Short wood 
cut at a certain growth for fuel; a place overgrown with 
fliort wood : 
Oaks and brambles, if the copfe be blirn’d. 
Confounded lie, to the lame aflies turn’d. Waller. 
To COPSE, v. a. To preferve underwoods.—The neg¬ 
lect of copjing wood cut down, hath been of very evil 
confequence. Swift. 
COPTOP'SKiLL, -a town of United America, in the 
date of Mew York : forty-two miles north of New York. 
COP'TOS, anciently a city of the Thebais, inhabited 
by Egyptians and Arabs, fome didance from the Nile; 
others place it in a fmall illand in the Nile, on which it 
had a port. Here Ids, on hearing of the death of Ofiris, 
cut one of her locks and put on mourning ; and hence 
the name Coptos, dignifying the privation. For this rea- 
fon the Ifiaci, or prieds of Ifis, were bald, according to 
J u venal. 
COPTS. See Cophti. 
CO'PULA,/ [Lat.J with logicians, is the verb which 
joins together any two terms in an affirmative or negative 
propofitions ; as, an norfe is an animal; -where is is the 
copula.—The copula is the form of a propofition : it re- 
prefents'the aid of the mind affirming or denying. Watts-. 
■—In furgery it means a bandage or ligament. 
To CO'PULATE, v. a. \_copulo, Lat.J To unite; to 
conjoin; to link together.—If the force of cudom, Am¬ 
ple and feparate, be great, the force of cudom copulate , 
and Conjoined, and collegiate, is far greater. 'Bacon. 
To CO'PULATE, v. n. To come together as different 
fexes.—Not only the perfons fo copulating are infected, 
but alfo their children. Wifeman 
COPULA'TION,/ The.congrefs or embrace of the 
two fexes.—Sundry kinds, even of .conjugal copulation , 
are prohibited as unhoned. Hooker. 
CO'PULATIVE, adj. [ copulativus , Lat.J A term of 
grammar.— Copulative propofitions are thole which have 
more lubjefts op predicates conne6ted by affirmative or 
negative conjunctions : as, riches and honours are temp¬ 
tations to pride; Ctefar conquered the Gauls and the 
Britons; neither gold nor jewels will purchafe immor¬ 
tality. Watts. 
CO'PY, f [ copic , Fr. copia , low Lat. quod cuipiamfaEla 
c/f copia exfcr.ibcndi. Junius inclines, after his manner, to 
derive it from vo 7 r<&, labour; becaufe, fays he, to copy 
another’s writing is very painful and laborious, j A tranf- 
cript from the archetype or original.—The. Romans hav¬ 
ing lent to Athens, and the Greek cities of Italy, for 
copies of the bed laws, chofe ten legiilutors. to put them 
into form. Swift, 
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