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(senseid)(lb) A reddish-brown metallic element (symbol Cu) with the number 29; also, the metal upVerb|made up of this element.
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* (RQ:King James Version) of the Philoſophers ſtone, that it turneth copper into gold; (..)
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* (RQ:Marryat Pirate)|footer=Referring to the copper sheathing of a ship.
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* (quote-web) Trump's July 8 announcement of a 50% tariff on copper imports beginning August 1 sent prices surging 13% in one day, up to a record high of $5.69 per pound.
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(senseid) (lb) The reddish-brown colour of copper ''((senseno))''.
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(senseid)(lb) ''In full'' copper butterfly: any of various lycaenid butterflies with copper-coloured upperwings, especially those of the genera (taxfmt) and (taxfmt).
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(lb) Any of various specialized items made of copper ''((senseno))'', where the use of the metal is either necessary or traditional to the function of the item.
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* (quote-book)y Company, Detroit, Grand Haven & Milwaukee R’y, and Railways Operated by Them|location=Detroit, Mich.|publisher=General Offices the Chicago and Grand Trunk Railway Company, and Detroit, Grand Haven and Milwaukee Railway Company|page=33|pageurl=https://books.google.com/books?id=0JopAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA33|oclc=894234962|passage=Coppers are generally good for a year, if the battery is carefully attended; they should, however, be removed before they have increased to such a size that their removal might cause the destruction of the glass jars.|footer=(small)
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* (quote-journal) Coppers weighing one pound each are the smallest ever needed in a paper mill, and one 2-pound copper should be bought also. (..) Having made the solder and bought "coppers," the first job is to tin them. Some coppers come already tinned. I didn't buy mine, so they surely were not tinned.
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* (quote-journal) Coppers are not consumed, and their life depends largely on the manner in which they are used.|footer=(small)
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* (RQ:Edgeworth Fashionable Life)
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(lb) A copper sheet on which an image or writing is engraved.
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* (RQ:Franklin Autobiography). It proved to be my old favorite author, Bunyan|(quote-gloss) Bunyan's w:The Pilgrim's Progress|Pilgrim's Progress, in Dutch, finely printed on good paper, with copper cuts, a dress better than I had ever seen it wear in its own language.
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(lb) A coin, typically of a small denomination, originally made of copper and now chiefly of other metals such as bronze; specifically, an English or British penny or halfpenny; also, a States cent; (lb) coins made of copper collectively.
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* (RQ:Shakespeare Love's Labour's Lost Q1)orne, / If ſo our Copper byes no better treaſure.
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* (RQ:Spectator)
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* (RQ:Franklin Autobiography) proceeded I began to soften, and concluded to give the coppers. (..) He finish'd so admirably, that I empty'd my pocket wholly into the collector's dish, gold and all.
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* (RQ:Besant Rice Golden Butterfly)
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* (RQ:Marshall Squire's Daughter)."
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(lb) In the game of faro: originally a copper coin, now usually a small disc or token, placed on a card to indicate that a player bets against that card.
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(senseid) (lb) A large pot, originally made of copper but later often of iron, filled with water and heated over a fire for cooking, washing clothes, etc.
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* (RQ:Dampier New Voyage)
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* (quote-book)|location=London|publisher=(...) R. Baldwin,(nb...)|section=part III (The Art of Dying Cotton and Linen Thread together with the Method of Stamping Silks, Cottons, &c.)|page=497|pageurl=https://archive.org/details/artofdyingwoolsi00hell/page/457/mode/1up|oclc=228755367|passage=When the water in the copper boils, the arſenic and tartar, vvell pounded, is put into it, and kept boiling till the liquor is reduced to about half.
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* (RQ:Marryat Peter Simple)
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* (RQ:Asbjornsen Braekstad Tales)
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* (RQ:Wells War of the Worlds)
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* (quote-book). Chapter 13.|editors=Sally Krimmer; Alan Lawson|title=Barbara Baynton: Bush Studies, Other Stories, Human Toll, Verse Essays and Letters|series=Portable Australian Authors|location=St. Lucia, Qld.|publisher=w:University of Queensland Press|year_published=1980|page=254|isbn=978-0-7022-1469-1|passage='Vot game now she play?' he asked himself, as he distinguished his wife near one of the pig-scalding coppers.
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* (RQ:Wells War of the Worlds)
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Having the reddish-brown colour of copper.
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* (RQ:Wordsworth Coleridge Lyrical Ballads)
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* (RQ:Marryat Pirate)
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(lb) In the game of faro: to place a copper coin, or now usually a small disc or token, on (a card) to indicate that a player bets against that card.
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(lb) To bet against (something).
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* (RQ:Twain Mississippi) You have n't got to believe they can ''do'' such miracles, have you? And yet you ain't absolutely obliged to believe they can't. I reckon the safe way, where a man can afford it, is to ''copper'' the operation, and at the same time buy enough property in Vicksburg to square you up in case they win.
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* (RQ:Hammett Red Harvest)
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* (RQ:E. Wallace Missing Million) It's not fair on the coppers either; they've got their duty to do, and it's dirty to kill a man for doing his job.
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* (RQ:Hammett Red Harvest)
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(lb) ''Chiefly preceded by a descriptive word'': a detective or a guard.
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* (RQ:Hammett Red Harvest) up.
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(lb) An informer.
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(lb) To arrest (someone).
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(lb) To inform on someone to the police.
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* (RQ:E. Wallace Missing Million)"
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