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CO~AIBA,

hal[am

COPAlBA, a liquid refinous

juice, flowiog from incifions made io rhe U'unk of the

fera, a large me which grows· in the Spanilh Well

Indies,

Qn~

is ufed as a corroboratiog aod detergenr

medicine.

COPAL, in the materia medica, a refin obtained from

feveral fom of largemes in New Spain. Ir is brought

to us in irregular)umps; but. it has never come into

ufe as a medicine, and is

r~rel

y ro be mer witb ·in me

Ihops.

COPENHAGEN, the capital of rhe kingdom of Den·

mark, btuated on rbe eallero Ihore of the iOaod of

Zealand, upon a fine bay of the Baldc fea, not far

frbm tbe llrait called the Sound:

long.

13°,

aod

N. lat.

51° 30'.

COPERNICAN, io geoeral, fomething belonging ro

Coperoicus. Hence,

COPERNICAN

fyjlem

h)·pollíejiI,

tbat fyllem of the

world, whereio the.fuo is fuppofed ro rell in the ceno

tre, and rhe planets, \Vith the ealth, to more in el·

Iipfes round him. See Vol. lo p.

434..

COPERNleUS, rhe Dame bf an a(lronomical inllru·

ment, invented by Mr Whillon, tO exhibit the motioo

and phrenomeoa of the plaoets, both primary and fe·

coodary.

is built upon the Copernicao fyllem, and

for tbat reafon dllled by his name.

COPHTS. COPHTI, 9r COPTS, a name given to fuch

of the Chrilliaos of Egypt as are of the teét of Jaco·

bites.

The Cophts bave a

patr~arcb,

who is llyled me pa"

tomh of Alexandria, having eleven or tlVelve bilhops

I1nd~r

him, but no archbilhop. The rell

'rhe c1er·

gy, \Vhether fecular or regular, are of the order of

St Anthony, St

Pau~

and'St Macarius,

ea~h

of whom

have lheir monalleries. The Coph¡s have feven fa·

crament!,

.iz.

baplifm, tbe euchari(l, confi rmation,

ordination, faith, falling, and prayer.

COPH1'IC, or

COPTlc-Ianguage,

is that fpoke bJ-the

~opht~,

being rhe ancient language of the Egyprians,

IOtermlxed with the

Gr~ek,

a.d

rhe charaéters of it

being thofe of rhe Gr ek.

The ancient Coptic is now a dead langoage, to be

met wilb DO where but in books, aod rhofe-

001

ytraof·

latioo! of the fcriptures, and of eccleftallical o/lices,

Or other! that have a relarion thereto

Ihe lapguage

oow ufed over all the counrry being that of the Arabic.

C0,PPEL, COPEL, ór CUPPEL, a chemical velfcl made

°r

eanh, pretty tbick, aod of the form of a platter or

dllh.

COPP.ELLING, or CUPElL.ING, in chemil\ry, is the

pUttlDg mmllic

f~bllances

inlO a coppel, or covered

lClrel,

mad~

of bone alhes, and fel in

naked fire, to

try IVh.t gold or filver they \ViII a!fard. See p.

II ~.

OPPE~

.conllitutes a dillinél genus of metals, being

next to troo'in fpecific gravity, but lighler than gold,

. ijil'er, Or Icad. See p. 80.

COPPERAS, a Dame given tO the. faéliriou! green vi·

tflOI. SeeCHMISTRY.

fol

The Eoglilh

copper~s

is made at Deptford, in tb.

lawlDg manoer. from pyrita:. See PYRITA:.

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• A beap of thefe Ilones, two or three foot thicK, B

laid in a bed \Vell rammed; \Vbere beiog turned once

iD fix Dlomhs, in five or fix y,ears, by the aélion of

the air and rain, they begiri to dilfolve, and yield a li.

quor which is rec¿ived in pits, and thence conveyed

into a cillero, in a bOiling'houfe. The liquor at

length being pumped out of the cillero into a lea.

den boiler, and a quaotity of iron added thereto,

in t\Vo .or three days rhe boiling is compleated

care

having been taken all along to fupply it \Vitb freOI

quantities of iron, and

rellore the boiling, ' when.

ever it feems to abate. Wheo boiled Cutliciently, it is

drawn off into a cooler, with llicks acrofs, where it is

lefr

days to Ihoot. The IIfes of copperas are

numerous.

is the chief ingredient in the dying of

\Vool, c1oths, and hats, black

in making ink, io tan.

ning and drelling lealher,

&~.

and from hence is pre·

pared oil of viII iol, and a kind of Spanilh bro\Vn for

painters. In medicine it is rarelyprefcribed under the

name of copperas, but it is arrue Calt of iron, and of.

ten prefcribed IInder that name, and ufed inllead of

the genuine preparalion

our chemi(ls in general gi–

viog themfélves no funher trouble about the making of

that falt, than to dilfolve aod purify rhe common

copperas, and Ihoot it again into cryllals.

COPPICE, or COPSE, a little \Vood, confilling of un.

der·\Voods, or fuch as may be raifed eitber by fowing

or planting.

COPULATIQN, the aél of generation, '" the congrefs

of Ihe male aod female, otherwife called coition. See

GENEP.AT

ION.

COPY·HOLD, a tebure forwhich a tenant has nothing

t.o Ihew bur me copy of the rolls made by toe lleward

of the lords court.

It is called a hafe \enure,. becaofe. the

teo~nt

holds

the land at the \ViII of the lord. How6ver, it is oot

fimply at the \ViII of the lord, but according to the

cuflom of the manor by which fuch ellate is defcen.

dible, and the tenants heirs may inherit it

and a copy.

holder, fo long as he does his Cervices, and does nor

break the cullom, pnnot be ejeéled by the lord; and

:if he be, he O,all have trefpafs againll him.

C02Y· HO LOER , one "ho

Í3

admitt~d

tenanr of lands or

reoements \Vithin a manor, which time our of mind,

ijfe and cullom of the manor, have been demiCable

and demifed

fuch.as

will take thenl in fee fimple

or fee·lale, for life, .ye. rs, or at will, according to

the

c~(Iom

of the manor by

CO?y

of court·mJ{; bllt

is'generally wher; the tenaor has fuch ellate

eitber.in

fee or for Ihree hves.

COQ,YIMBO, a porHo\Vn of Chilí, in Sou:h .'\merica,

firllaled ar the mourh of a river of the fame name,

which difcharges iúelf into the pacific

oce.tn

long

7.5°

1.0',

and

l"t'·3.o.0

COR CAROLI, in allronomy, an exrracon/lellated llar in

the nOrlhero hcmuphere, fituated between .Ihe. coma

berenices, aod urfa major, fo caJleq by Dr Halley iD

honour of ktng

Ch~r1cs.

CO R HVORJE., a fixed llar of the

6rll

Olagnitude i.

the con!lellation of hydra.

COJof.