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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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"Cope" Quotes from Famous Books

... Celtic. When we turn to the rarer scenes in which man is specially prominent—a hunt, or a gladiatorial show, or Hesione fettered naked to a rock and Hercules saving her from the monster[4]—the vigour fails (Fig. 17). The artist could not or would not cope with the human form. His nude figures, Hesione and Hercules, and his clothed gladiators are not fantastic but grotesque. They retain traces of Celtic treatment, as in Hesione's hair. But the general treatment is Roman. The Late Celtic art is here sinking into the general ...

— The Romanization of Roman Britain • F. Haverfield

... factor that should not be disregarded in the problem of food is waste, and so that the housewife can cope with it properly she should understand the distinction between waste and refuse. These terms are thought by some to mean the same thing and are often confused; but there is a decided difference between them. Waste, as applied to food, is ...

— Woman's Institute Library of Cookery, Vol. 1 - Volume 1: Essentials of Cookery; Cereals; Bread; Hot Breads • Woman's Institute of Domestic Arts and Sciences

... was not beautiful. The whole place was like a feast of colour and form and sunshine. Yet for him the light seemed suddenly to have faded from life. Danger had only stimulated him, had helped him to cope with the dull pain which he had carried about with him during the last few months. He was face to face now with something else. It was worse, this, than anything he had dreamed. Somehow or other, notwithstanding ...

— Mr. Grex of Monte Carlo • E. Phillips Oppenheim

... him nothing. They had been well pitched up, and he had smothered them. He knew what to do now. He had played on wickets of this pace at home against Saunders's bowling, and Saunders had shown him the right way to cope with them. ...

— Mike • P. G. Wodehouse

... that was easily accessible. It was not from preference that these haphazard methods were adopted; but since they only kept two servants, it was clear that a couple of women, however willing, could not possibly cope with so irregular a commissariat in addition to the series of fixed hours and the rest of the household work. As it was, two splendidly efficient persons, one German, the other English, had filled the posts of parlourmaid and cook ...

— Michael • E. F. Benson

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