copper : Idioms & Phrases

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american copper

  • noun common copper butterfly of central and eastern North America
    Lycaena hypophlaeas.
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Black copper

  • . Same as Melaconite.
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blister copper

  • noun an impure form of copper having a black blistered surface
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chessy copper

Ches`sy" cop"per
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  1. (Min.) The mineral azurite, found in fine crystallization at Chessy, near Lyons; called also chessylite.
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copper beech

  • noun variety of European beech with shining purple or copper-colored leaves
    purple beech; Fagus purpurea; Fagus sylvatica purpurea; Fagus sylvatica atropunicea.
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copper color

  • noun a reddish-brown color resembling the color of polished copper
    copper.
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copper colored

  • adjective satellite of something having the color of copper
    coppery.
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Copper finch

  • . (Zoöl.) See Chaffinch.
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copper glance

  • noun a heavy grey mineral that is an ore of copper
    chalcocite.
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Copper glance, ∨ Vitreous copper

  • . (Min.) See Chalcocite.
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copper mine

  • noun a mine where copper is dug from the ground
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copper nose

  • noun enlargement of the nose with dilation of follicles and redness and prominent vascularity of the skin; often associated with excessive consumption of alcohol
    rum-blossom; hypertrophic rosacea; rum nose; brandy nose; rhinophyma; toper's nose; potato nose; hammer nose.
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copper oxide

  • noun an oxide of copper
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copper pyrites

  • noun a yellow copper ore (CuFeS2) made up of copper and iron sulfide
    chalcopyrite.
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copper rockfish

  • noun a rockfish of the Pacific coastal waters of North America
    Sebastodes caurinus.
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copper sulfate

  • noun a copper salt made by the action of sulfuric acid on copper oxide
    cupric sulfate; cupric sulphate; copper sulfate.
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copper sulphate

  • noun a copper salt made by the action of sulfuric acid on copper oxide
    cupric sulfate; cupric sulphate; copper sulfate.
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copper works

Cop"per works
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  1. A place where copper is wrought or manufactured. Woodward.
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copper's nark

  • noun an informer or spy working for the police
    nark.
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copper-base alloy

  • noun any alloy whose principal component is copper
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copper-bottom

  • verb provide with a copper bottom
    copper-bottom.
    • copper-bottom a frying pan
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copper-bottomed

  • verb provide with a copper bottom
    copper-bottom.
    • copper-bottom a frying pan
  • adjective satellite having a bottom of copper or sheathed with copper
    • copper-bottomed pots
    • a copper-bottomed ship
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Cop"per-bot`tomed adjective
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  1. Having a bottom made of copper, as a tin boiler or other vessel, or sheathed with copper, as a ship.
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copper-faced

Cop"per-faced` adjective
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  1. Faced or covered with copper; as, copper-faced type.
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copper-fastened

Cop"per-fas`tened adjective
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  1. Fastened with copper bolts, as the planks of ships, etc.; as, a copper-fastened ship.
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copper-nickel

Cop"per-nick`el noun
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  1. (Min.) Nicolite.
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copper-nose

Cop"per-nose noun
Definitions
  1. A red nose. Shak.
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Float copper ∨ gold

  • (Mining), fine particles of metallic copper or of gold suspended in water, and thus liable to be lost.
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Glance copper

  • calcocite.
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Gray copper

  • (Min.), tetrahedrite.
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Indigo copper

  • . (Min.) See Covelline.
  • (Min.), covellite.
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Mass copper

  • native copper in a large mass.
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Purple copper ore

  • . (Min.) See Bornite.
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Red copper

  • (Min.), red oxide of copper; cuprite.
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White copper

  • a whitish alloy of copper. See German silver, under German.
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Yellow copper ore

  • a sulphide of copper and iron; copper pyrites. See Chalcopyrite.
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