Word Meanings - COPPER - Book Publishers vocabulary database

the boilers in the galley for cooking; as, a ship's coppers. Note: Copper is often used adjectively, commonly in the sense of made or consisting of copper, or resembling copper; as, a copper boiler, tube, etc. All in a hot and copper sky. Coleridge.

Additional info about word: COPPER

the boilers in the galley for cooking; as, a ship's coppers. Note: Copper is often used adjectively, commonly in the sense of made or consisting of copper, or resembling copper; as, a copper boiler, tube, etc. All in a hot and copper sky. Coleridge. Note: It is sometimes written in combination; as, copperplate, coppersmith, copper-colored. Copper finch. See Chaffinch. -- Copper glance, or Vitreous copper. See Chalcocite. -- Indigo copper. See Covelline. (more info) G. kupfer), LL. cuper, fr. L. cuprum for earlier Cyprium, Cyprium 1. A common metal of a reddish color, both ductile and malleable, and very tenacious. It is one of the best conductors of heat and electricity. Symbol Cu. Atomic weight 63.3. It is one of the most useful metals in itself, and also in its alloys, brass and bronze. Note: Copper is the only metal which occurs native abundantly in large masses; it is found also in various ores, of which the most important are chalcopyrite, chalcocite, cuprite, and malachite. Copper mixed with tin forms bell metal; with a smaller proportion, bronze; and with zinc, it forms brass, pinchbeck, and other alloys. 2. A coin made of copper; a penny, cent, or other minor coin of copper. My friends filled my pockets with coppers. Franklin. 3. A vessel, especially a large boiler, made of copper. 4. pl. Specifically ,

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• COOKSHOP
  An eating house. "A subterranean cookshop." Macaulay.
• SENSE
  A faculty, possessed by animals, of perceiving external objects by means of impressions made upon certain organs (sensory or sense organs) of the body, or of perceiving changes in the condition of the body; as, the senses of sight, smell, hearing,
• CONSISTENTLY
  In a consistent manner.
• GALLEY-WORM
  A chilognath myriapod of the genus Iulus, and allied genera, having numerous short legs along the sides; a milliped or "thousand legs." See Chilognatha.
• CONSIST
  1. To stand firm; to be in a fixed or permanent state, as a body composed of parts in union or connection; to hold together; to be; to exist; to subsist; to be supported and maintained. He is before all things, and by him all things consist. Col.
• CONSISTORIAN
  Pertaining to a Presbyterian consistory; -- a contemptuous term of 17th century controversy. You fall next on the consistorian schismatics; for so you call Presbyterians. Milton.
• COPPER-FACED
  Faced or covered with copper; as, copper-faced type.
• COMMONLY
  1. Usually; generally; ordinarily; frequently; for the most part; as, confirmed habits commonly continue trough life. 2. In common; familiary. Spenser.
• COPPERWORM
  The teredo; -- so called because it injures the bottoms of vessels, where not protected by copper. The ringworm.
• COPPER-FASTENED
  Fastened with copper bolts, as the planks of ships, etc.; as, a copper-fastened ship.
• CONSISTENCE; CONSISTENCY
  1. The condition of standing or adhering together, or being fixed in union, as the parts of a body; existence; firmness; coherence; solidity. Water, being divided, maketh many circles, till it restore itself to the natural consistence. Bacon. We
• CONSISTORY
  The spiritual court of a diocesan bishop held before his chancellor or commissioner in his cathedral church or elsewhere. Hook. (more info) consistorium a place of assembly, the place where the emperor's council met, fr. consistere: cf.
• OFTENNESS
  Frequency. Hooker.
• COOKROOM
  A room for cookery; a kitchen; the galley or caboose of a ship. Sir W. Raleigh.
• COPPER WORKS
  A place where copper is wrought or manufactured. Woodward.
• COPPERISH
  Containing, or partaking of the nature of, copper; like copper; as, a copperish taste.
• COPPERHEAD
  A poisonous American serpent , closely allied to the rattlesnake, but without rattles; -- called also copper-belly, and red viper. 2. A nickname applied to a person in the Northern States who sympathized with the South during the Civil War.
• RESEMBLINGLY
  So as to resemble; with resemblance or likeness.
• OFTEN
  Frequently; many times; not seldom.
• COOKEE
  A female cook.
• INSENSE
  To make to understand; to instruct. Halliwell.
• INCONSISTENTLY
  In an inconsistent manner.
• INCONSISTENCY
  1. The quality or state of being inconsistent; discordance in respect to sentiment or action; such contrariety between two things that both can not exist or be true together; disagreement; incompatibility. There is a perfect inconsistency between
• NONSENSE
  1. That which is not sense, or has no sense; words, or language, which have no meaning, or which convey no intelligible ideas; absurdity. 2. Trifles; things of no importance. Nonsense verses, lines made by taking any words which occur,
• CHESSY COPPER
  The mineral azurite, found in fine crystallization at Chessy, near Lyons; called also chessylite.