copse
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copse
a dense growth of bushes
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Copse
A wood of small growth; a thicket of brushwood. See Coppice. "Near yonder copse where once the garden smiled." -
Copse
To plant and preserve, as a copse. -
Copse
To trim or cut; -- said of small trees, brushwood, tufts of grass, etc.
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copse
See coppice. -
copse
To cut or trim, as brushwood, tufts of grass, and the like. -
copse
To plant or preserve, as underwoods. -
copse
To inclose as in a copse. -
copse
To form a coppice; grow up again from the roots after being cut down, as brushwood. -
copse
Also coppice. -
(n)
copse
Same as cops.
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Copse
a wood of small growth for periodical cutting
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary Contr. from coppice,
Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary O. Fr. copeiz, wood newly cut—Low L. colpāre, to cut—L. colaphus, a blow with the fist.
Many mushroom hunters dream of finding a copse of golden chanterelles or tasty morels. nj.com
And from the copse-wood already mentioned, they journeyed over a vast and dreary open plain. "The Mabinogion Vol. 2 (of 3)"
Their road lay through a country wild and woody, where crag and copse beautifully intermixed with patches of rich cultivation. "The Young Duke" by
There are copses, down by the riverside, where you could wait in safety until you were wanted. "No Surrender!" by
In Scotland, again, glens or copses, often the haunts of wild deer, are green with a thick growth of bracken. "Chatterbox, 1905." by
Now he's in the track that cuts through this copse. "Ambrotox and Limping Dick" by
Pomona wandered through every orchard beside her beloved Vertumnus; Pan and his sylvan brood sported behind the foliage of every copse. "The Lion's Brood" by
The ground was dotted with small copses which the darkness made indistinguishable, and no report of this post's relief was ever made. "The Story of the 2/4th Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry" by
A. H. Michie with his platoon to seize Kite Copse. "The Sherwood Foresters in the Great War 1914 - 1919" by
The only spot about the Chace where the wind-anemones grew was in a small detached copse of ash-poles nearly a mile from the great woods. "Round About a Great Estate" by
These sticks, of which he had scores, he cut himself, his eye never losing its vigilance as he passed through a copse. "Highways & Byways in Sussex" by
And his shadow dances along,
And I know not which I should follow,
Shadow or song!
But follow'd faster still;
And echo'd to the darksome Copse
That whisper'd on the Hill;
Shell-shivered Loos, and drops
In million sparkles on a pond
That lies by Hulluch copse.
Some dream-known terror fearing.
Awake! O great and little trees!
The Judgment-day is nearing!
With stockdove's moan and woodwren's lay;
To gladden distant shores with sound
They wing their way.
Beware the rising weather!
Or late or soon, both young and old
Shall strew the ground together....