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Cope v. t. (Falconry) To pare the beak or talons of (a hawk).

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."

3.

To match one's self against; to meet; to encounter. "I love to cope him in these sullen fits." "They say he yesterday coped Hector in the battle, and struck him down."

Cope v. i. To form a cope or arch; to bend or arch; to bow. (Obs.) "Some bending down and coping toward the earth."

Cope v. i. (past & past part. coped; pres. part. coping)

1.

To exchange or barter. (Obs.)

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."

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." "Their generals have not been able to cope with the troops of Athens."

noun

Cope n.

1.

A covering for the head. (Obs.)

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."

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. "A hundred and sixty priests all in their copes."

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.

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... true that Mock Hen insisted upon his innocence, he had not insisted upon it to Mr. Tutt, for the latter had not seen him. In fact, the old lawyer, recognizing what the law did not, namely that a system devised for the trial and punishment of Occidentals is totally inadequate to cope with the Oriental, calmly went about his affairs, intrusting to Mr. Bonnie Doon of his office the task of interviewing the witnesses furnished by Wong Get. There was but one issue for the jury to pass upon. Quong Lee was dead and his honorable soul was ...

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... arrived at the foot-hills north of Bent's Fort, we came suddenly upon the trail of a large war-band of Utes, none of whom we saw, but from subsequent developments the savages must have discovered us days before we reached the mountains. I knew we were not strong enough to cope with the whole Ute nation, and concluded the best thing for us to do under the ticklish circumstances was to make a detour, and put them off our trail. So we turned abruptly down the Arkansas, intending to try and get to Taos in that direction, more than one hundred and fifty miles ...

— The Old Santa Fe Trail - The Story of a Great Highway • Henry Inman

... Wilkins. If there was anything that could increase the anger and mortification of the tyrant it was these signs of failing allegiance. What! was he to lose his hold over these boys, and that because he was unable to cope with a boy much smaller and younger than himself? Perish the thought! It nerved him to desperation, and he prepared for a still ...

— Hector's Inheritance - or The Boys of Smith Institute • Horatio Alger

... and up to the pastures of Waban where no more snow falls than suffices to nourish the sparsely growing pines. But the bighorn, the wild sheep, able to bear the bitterest storms with no signs of stress, cannot cope with the loose shifty snow. Never such a storm goes over the mountains that the Indians do not catch them floundering belly deep among the lower rifts. I have a pair of horns, inconceivably heavy, that were borne as late as a year ago by a very monarch of the flock ...

— The Land of Little Rain • Mary Austin

... of the atoms of the brain.' And though he of course admits that to trace out the processes in detail is infinitely beyond our powers, yet 'the quality of the problem and of our powers,' he says, 'are, we believe, so related, that a mere expansion of the latter would enable them to cope with the former.' Nowhere is there any break in Nature; and 'supposing,' in Dr. Tyndall's words, 'a planet carved from the sun, set spinning on an axis, and sent revolving round the sun at a distance equal to that of our earth,' science points to the conclusion that as the ...

— Is Life Worth Living? • William Hurrell Mallock

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