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Cope   /koʊp/   Listen
verb
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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"Cope" Quotes from Famous Books



... cope with the Mexican intruders, these degraded tribes are also an easy prey to disease. They live without general intercourse, and lurk in the foothills, or ...
— The Little Lady of Lagunitas • Richard Henry Savage
... place, The highest prize on earth's wide face! As in the stars of heaven, in thee, God's greatness in the small we see; For he whose gaze whole worlds bath bless'd His eye hath even here impress'd, And the light down in beauty dress'd, So that e'en monarchs cannot hope In splendour with the bird to cope. Meekly enjoy thy happy lot, And so deserve ...
— The Poems of Goethe • Goethe
... handsome fortunes for the lucky and enterprising projectors. Speculation of this kind, which would be justly deemed dishonourable in a settled country, is apt to be less rigidly considered in the pioneers of a new world. What country can attempt to cope with such energy and enterprise as this? It is frequently a subject of remark, that men born in England, and educated in the States, are among the foremost in these ...
— Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 454 - Volume 18, New Series, September 11, 1852 • Various
... told that I have," Violet replied, smiling, "but"—growing very grave again—"whether I possess firmness sufficient to cope with the will you have described, I cannot say. I have never had any experience in the government of children; but I should say that tact would prove more effective in the management of your daughter than an obstinate ...
— His Heart's Queen • Mrs. Georgie Sheldon
... greater cause of discontent with life than this. Eight years before he had rashly married a wife. There are men whom a merciful Providence has undoubtedly ordained to a single life, but who from wilfulness or through circumstances they could not cope with have flown in the face of its decrees. There is no object more deserving of pity than the married bachelor. Of such was Captain Nichols. I met his wife. She was a woman of twenty-eight, I should think, though ...
— The Moon and Sixpence • W. Somerset Maugham


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