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noun

Copper n.

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. (Colloq.) "My friends filled my pockets with coppers."

3.

A vessel, especially a large boiler, made of copper.

4.

pl. Specifically (Naut.), 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." Note: It is sometimes written in combination; as, copperplate, coppersmith, copper-colored.

Copper finch. (Zool.) See Chaffinch.

Copper glance, or Vitreous copper. (Min.) See Chalcocite.

Indigo copper. (Min.) See Covelline.

verb

Copper v. t. (past & past part. coppered; pres. part. coppering) To cover or coat with copper; to sheathe with sheets of copper; as, to copper a ship.

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Etymology of 'Copper'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Copper" Quotes from Famous Books

... weekly or monthly to go into an endowment or benefit fund, even when the company itself contributes as much or more, was instituted with sanguine hopes some forty years ago, first in the great Calumet & Hecla Copper Company, and then in some of the larger railroads; and was on the point of meeting general acceptance when it evoked the hostility of organized labor, which secured legislation in Ohio and other States making it a crime, or ...

— Popular Law-making • Frederic Jesup Stimson

... pride, all his sensitiveness, all his own weariness— everything but the sick boy, and left no stone unturned to procure even a copper. He even begged, when nothing ...

— Reginald Cruden - A Tale of City Life • Talbot Baines Reed

... through jealousy? Mind yourself!" After this they passed through the Council Chamber, the Guards' Room, the Throne Room, and the drawing-room of Louis XIII. The uncurtained windows sent forth a white light. The handles of the window-fastenings and the copper feet of the pier-tables were slightly tarnished with dust. The armchairs were everywhere hidden under coarse linen covers. Above the doors could be seen reliquaries of Louis XIV., and here and there hangings representing the gods of Olympus, Psyche, or ...

— Sentimental Education, Volume II - The History of a Young Man • Gustave Flaubert

... chemical composition of brain matter, no thought is possible. Indeed, if one were set upon the indictment of a single chemical element as the begetter of consciousness, the prisoner at the bar would have to be copper. There is more copper in the brain by a considerable degree than in any other organ of the body. Which perhaps will be exceedingly regretted by the patrons of the aristocracy of the soul who would have it ...

— The Glands Regulating Personality • Louis Berman, M.D.

... the 9th of January, 1862, still accompanied by her mother and her aunt, over whom her resolute nature exercised an undisputed ascendancy, voyaging in their boats, which carried a large stock of provisions, an ample supply of money, chiefly in copper, and a numerous train of guides, guards, and servants. In the largest and most commodious dahabuyah went the three ladies, with a Syrian cook and four European servants. Alexina's journal, it is said, preserves ...

— Celebrated Women Travellers of the Nineteenth Century • W. H. Davenport Adams

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