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▪ I. copped, ppl. a. Now chiefly dial.|ˈkɒpɪd, kɒpt|
Also 6–7 copt, 7 coppet, coped, Sc. 7–8 capped, -et, -it, (5 kopeth).
[f. cop n.2 head, etc. + -ed2. The relation of 4 b is somewhat uncertain.]
†1. ? Having the top cut off; polled. Obs. (OE.)
So usually explained, but the sense may be as in 2.
900in Thorpe Diplom. 145 (Bosw.) Andlang weᵹes on ða coppedan ac. 939in Kemble Cod. Diplom. V. 240 To ðan coppedan þorne.
2. ‘Rising to a top or head’ (J.); peaked.
1432–50tr. Higden (Rolls) I. 225 A wonder copped pilour. 1460Lybeaus Disc. 131 in Ritson Met. Rom. II. 6 Hys schon wes with gold ydyght, And kopeth as a knyght. 1494Fabyan Chron. v. cxxiii. 101 A lytle coppyd hyll. 1500Ortus Voc. in Promp. Parv. 91 Milleus, a copped shoo. 1547Boorde Introd. Knowl. xxx. 199 Coppyd thinges standeth vpon theyr [women's] hed, within ther kerchers, lyke..a gose podynge. 1576Gascoigne Steele Gl. Epil., Women..with high copt hattes, and fethers flaunt a flaunt. 1608Shakes. Per. i. i. 101 The blind mole casts Copp'd hills towards heaven. 1664Evelyn Sylva 101 The form of a copped brown Houshold-loaf. a1697Aubrey Nat. Hist. Surrey (1719) II. 39 They shew you..a copped Hill, whereon..stood formerly a Castle. 1713Derham Phys.-Theol. iv. ii. 94 The Pupil..round, and the Cornea Copped, or Conical. 1749Phil. Trans. XLVI. 146 This [Echinite] is greatly copped, the Apex lying very high. 1884Gd. Words Nov. 772/2 He talks volubly of the moles, worms, and traps, and the copped hills.
†b. In the following the sense may be ‘heaped up, formed into a tumulus’: cf. cop n.1 4, 5.
a1552Leland Collect. (1774) II. 521 A great Hepe of Stones layed coppid up where he was buried. 1605Stow Ann. 101 A great heape of stones was laide copped vp where Hubba was buried. 1611Speed Theat. Gt. Brit. x. (1614) 19/2 Hubba the Dane..was there..under a heape of copped stones interred. c1630Risdon Surv. Devon (1714) II. 363 They..piled on him a Heap of copped Stones, as a Trophy to his Memorial.
3. Crested, having a tuft on the head. Now dial.
1398Trevisa Barth. De P.R. xii. xxxviii. (1495) 436 The Lapwynge..is copped on the heed. 1570Levins Manip. 49 Copped, cristatus. 1611Cotgr., Cochevis, the copped Larke; the Larke that hath a little tuft standing on her head. 1653H. Cogan tr. Pinto's Trav. vi. 17 We saw Adders, that were copped on the crowns of their heads. 1700C. Leigh Nat. Hist. Lanc., Chesh., etc. 195 The copped Wren that fed the Dragoons near Durton. 1881Dickinson Cumb. Gloss. 2nd Suppl., Copt, Cop-heedit..tufted as some birds are.
4. fig.
a. ‘Stuck up’; proud, conceited. dial.
1653Urquhart Rabelais ii. ii, The most coped, lofty and high-crested Poets affirme, etc. 1691Ray Collect., Gloss. Northan. 140 Copt, superbus, fastuosus. 1695Kennett Par. Antiq. Gloss., Copt, in the North, high; as a Copt⁓man, i.e. a proud and high-minded man. 1869Peacock Lonsdale Gloss., Copt, set up, filled with conceit. 1878Dickinson Cumbrld. Gloss., Copt, pert, set up, proud.
b. Saucy, peevish, crabbed. Perh. primarily ‘heady’. Now Sc.
c1449Pecock Repr. i. xx. 123 Thilk wommen whiche maken hem silf so wise bi the Bible..and ben ful coppid of speche anentis clerkis. 1597James I. Dæmonol. Wks. 120 To these capped creatures, he [the devil] appeares as he pleases. a1605Montgomerie Misc. Poems (1887) x. 23 Quhilks are bot cappit vane conceats. 1606W. Birnie Kirk-Buriall (1833) 34 Would not the kempes of the corps-guarde..cudgell him also for his capped conseate? 1674Ray N.C. Words, Coppet, saucy, malepert, peremptory; also merry, jolly. 1785R. Forbes Poems Buchan Dial. 9 (Jam.) Fight your fill, sin ye are grown Sae unco' crous and cappit.
5. Comb., as copped-crowned adj. (Cf. cop-crowned (s.v. cop n.2 8), copple-crowned.)
16..Fletcher Poems (N.), From a coppid-crown-tenent prickd up by a brother. 1650Bulwer Anthropomet. i. (1653) 10 Scoffing at his coppid crown'd Head, which appeared like the head of a Lapwing. Ibid. (ed. 1) 17 Copt-crown'd, or acuminate heads.
▪ II. copped
obs. f. coped. |