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Word Meanings - COPE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The top part of a flask or mold; the outer part of a loam mold. Knight. De Colange. (more info) 1. A covering for the head. Johnson. 2. Anything regarded as extended over the head, as the arch or concave of the sky, the roof of a house, the arch

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The top part of a flask or mold; the outer part of a loam mold. Knight. De Colange. (more info) 1. A covering for the head. Johnson. 2. Anything regarded as extended over the head, as the arch or concave of the sky, the roof of a house, the arch over a door. "The starry cope of heaven." Milton. 3. An ecclesiastical vestment or cloak, semicircular in form, reaching from the shoulders nearly to the feet, and open in front except at the top, whereit is united by a band or clasp. It is worn in processions and on some other occasions. Piers plowman. A hundred and sixty priests all in their copes. Bp. Burnet. 4. An ancient tribute due to the lord of the soil, out of the lead mines in derbyshire, England.

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    A female rival. Richardson.
  • MAINTAIN
    by the hand; main hand + F. tenir to hold . See 1. To hold or keep in any particular state or condition; to support; to sustain; to uphold; to keep up; not to suffer to fail or decline; as, to maintain a certain degree of heat in a furnace;
  • WRANGLE
    An angry dispute; a noisy quarrel; a squabble; an altercation. Syn. -- Altercation; bickering; brawl; jar; jangle; contest; controversy. See Altercation.
  • DISAGREEABLENESS
    The state or quality of being; disagreeable; unpleasantness.
  • FORESTICK
    Front stick of a hearth fire.
  • FOREST
    A large extent or precinct of country, generally waste and woody, belonging to the sovereign, set apart for the keeping of game for his use, not inclosed, but distinguished by certain limits, and protected by certain laws, courts, and officers of
  • CONTESTABLE
    Capable of being contested; debatable.
  • STRUGGLER
    One who struggles.
  • DISAGREER
    One who disagrees. Hammond.
  • MAINTAINOR
    One who, not being interested, maintains a cause depending between others, by furnishing money, etc., to either party. Bouvier. Wharton.
  • FORESTAY
    A large, strong rope, reaching from the foremast head to the bowsprit, to support the mast. See Illust. under Ship.
  • CONTEST
    1. Earnest dispute; strife in argument; controversy; debate; altercation. Leave all noisy contests, all immodest clamors and brawling language. I. Watts. 2. Earnest struggle for superiority, victory, defense, etc.; competition; emulation; strife
  • CONTESTATION
    1. The act of contesting; emulation; rivalry; strife; dispute. "Loverlike contestation." Milton. After years spent in domestic, unsociable contestations, she found means to withdraw. Clarendon. 2. Proof by witness; attestation; testimony. A solemn
  • FORESTAGE
    A duty or tribute payable to the king's foresters. A service paid by foresters to the king.
  • STRIVE
    1. An effort; a striving. Chapman. 2. Strife; contention. Wyclif .
  • GROVEL
    adv., on the face, prone, which was misunderstood as a p. pr.; cf. OE. gruf, groff, in the same sense; of Scand. origin, cf. Icel. 1. To creep on the earth, or with the face to the ground; to lie prone, or move uneasily with the body prostrate
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    Disagreement.
  • FORESTER
    A lepidopterous insect belonging to Alypia and allied genera; as, the eight-spotted forester , which in the larval state is injurious to the grapevine. (more info) 1. One who has charge of the growing timber on an estate; an officer appointed
  • FORESTALL
    To obstruct or stop up, as a way; to stop the passage of on highway; to intercept on the road, as goods on the way to market. To forestall the market, to buy or contract for merchandise or provision on its way to market, with the intention
  • DISAGREEABLY
    In a disagreeable manner; unsuitably; offensively.
  • NONARRIVAL
    Failure to arrive.
  • REDARGUE
    To disprove; to refute; toconfute; to reprove; to convict. How shall I . . . suffer that God should redargue me at doomsday, and the angels reproach my lukewarmness Jer. Taylor. Now this objection to the immediate cognition of external objects has,
  • ENGRAPPLE
    To grapple.
  • ARGUE
    1. To invent and offer reasons to support or overthrow a proposition, opinion, or measure; to use arguments; to reason. I argue not Against Heaven's hand or will. Milton. 2. To contend in argument; to dispute; to reason; -- followed by with; as,
  • INGRAPPLE
    To seize; to clutch; to grapple. Drayton.
  • COAFFOREST
    To convert into, or add to, a forest. Howell.
  • INCONTESTED
    Not contested. Addison.
  • UNARGUED
    1. Not argued or debated. 2. Not argued against; undisputed. Milton. 3. Not censured. B. Jonson.
  • AFFOREST
    To convert into a forest; as, to afforest a tract of country.

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