Cope , v. t. 1. To
bargain for; to buy. [Obs.]
2. To make return for; to requite; to repay. [Obs.]
three thousand ducats due unto the
Jew,
We freely cope your courteous pains withal.
Shak.
3. To match one's self against; to meet; to encounter.
I love to cope him in
these sullen fits.
Shak.
They say he yesterday coped Hector in the
battle, and struck him down.
Shak.
Cope , v. i. [imp. & p. p. Coped (kōpt); p. pr. & vb. n. Coping.]
[OE. copen, coupen, to buy, bargain, prob. from D. koopen to buy, orig., to bargain. See Cheap.] 1. To exchange or barter. [Obs.]
Spenser.
2. To encounter; to meet; to have
to do with.
Horatio, thou art e'en as just a man
As e'er my conversation coped
withal.
Shak.
3. To enter into or
maintain a hostile contest; to struggle; to combat; especially, to strive or contend on equal terms or with success; to match; to equal; -- usually followed by with.
Host coped with host, dire was the
din of war.
Philips.
Their generals have not been
able to cope with the troops of Athens.
Addison.
Cope , v. t. (Falconry)
To pare the beak or
talons of (a hawk). J. H. Walsh.
Cope , v. i. To form a cope or arch; to bend or arch;
to bow. [Obs.]
Some bending
down and coping toward the earth.
Holland.
Cope (kōp),
n. [A doublet of cape. See Cape, Cap.]
1. A covering for the head. [Obs.]
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, where it 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.
5. (Founding) The top part of a flask or mold; the outer part of
a loam mold. Knight. De Colange.
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