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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



... gives courage for resolute effort resulting in clear and full verification. Jesus may have been ignorant of the objective reality of Lazarus's condition, and yet have been very hopeful of being empowered by the divine aid he prayed for (John xi. 41) to cope ...
— Miracles and Supernatural Religion • James Morris Whiton
... "I don't think I want to blame either you or Max. The situation was difficult, and you weren't quite strong enough to cope with it. That's all. But"—with one of his rare smiles that flashed out like sunshine after rain—"you haven't reached the end of the ...
— The Splendid Folly • Margaret Pedler
... valiant endeavours to cope with the heritage of Babel were better known to us than he imagined. More than once his efforts to extract from strangers that information which was his due, and at the same time, like a juggler of many parts, to keep the balls of Dignity and Courtesy rolling, ...
— Jonah and Co. • Dornford Yates
... of the coming trial, and he prepared to take official note of it. While matters were being gotten in readiness Tom turned the wheel over to his assistant pilot and went to the engine-room to see that everything was in good shape to cope with any emergency. The rudders had been carefully examined before the flight was made, to make sure they would not fail, for on them depended the progress of the ship against the ...
— Tom Swift and his Aerial Warship - or, The Naval Terror of the Seas • Victor Appleton
... standards, it often occurs to the mind of the sensitive visitor, whose conscience has been made tender by much talk of brotherhood and equality, that she has no right to say these things; that her untrained hands are no more fitted to cope with actual conditions than those of ...
— Democracy and Social Ethics • Jane Addams


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