Chessy copper
() The mineral azurite, found in fine crystallization at Chessy, near Lyons |
Copper
(n.) A common metal of a reddish color, both ductile and malleable, and very tenacious. It is one of the best conductors of heat and electricity. Symbol Cu. Atomic weight 63.3. It is one of the most useful metals in itself, and also in its alloys, brass and bronze. |
Copper
(n.) A coin made of copper |
Copper
(n.) A vessel, especially a large boiler, made of copper. |
Copper
(n.) the boilers in the galley for cooking |
Copper
(v. t.) To cover or coat with copper |
Copper-bottomed
(a.) Having a bottom made of copper, as a tin boiler or other vessel, or sheathed with copper, as a ship. |
Copper-faced
(a.) Faced or covered with copper |
Copper-fastened
(a.) Fastened with copper bolts, as the planks of ships, etc. |
Copper-nickel
(n.) Niccolite. |
Copper-nose
(n.) A red nose. |
Copper works
() A place where copper is wrought or manufactured. |
Crop-tailed
(a.) Having the tail cropped. |
Daggle-tailed
(a.) Having the lower ends of garments defiled by trailing in mire or filth |
Dag-tailed
(a.) Daggle-tailed |
Draggle-tailed
(a.) Untidy |
Fan-tailed
(a.) Having an expanded, or fan-shaped, tail |
Fork-tailed
(a.) Having the outer tail feathers longer than the median ones |
Glossy
(superl.) Smooth and shining |
Glossy
(superl.) Smooth |
Pin-tailed
(a.) Having a tapered tail, with the middle feathers longest |
Racket-tailed
(a.) Having long and spatulate, or racket-shaped, tail feathers. |
Rat-tailed
(a.) Having a long, tapering tail like that of a rat. |
Red-tailed
(a.) Having a red tail. |
Ring-tailed
(a.) Having the tail crossed by conspicuous bands of color. |
Ruby-tailed
(a.) Having the tail, or lower part of the body, bright red. |
Scissors-tailed
(a.) Having the outer feathers much the longest, the others decreasing regularly to the median ones. |
Spine-tailed
(a.) Having the tail quills ending in sharp, naked tips. |
Starling
(n.) Any passerine bird belonging to Sturnus and allied genera. The European starling (Sturnus vulgaris) is dark brown or greenish black, with a metallic gloss, and spotted with yellowish white. It is a sociable bird, and builds about houses, old towers, etc. Called also stare, and starred. The pied starling of India is Sternopastor contra. |
Starling
(n.) A California fish |
Starling
(n.) A structure of piles driven round the piers of a bridge for protection and support |
Stiff-tailed
(a.) Having the quill feathers of the tail somewhat rigid. |
Stump-tailed
(a.) Having a short, thick tail. |
Swallow-tailed
(a.) Having a tail like that of a swallow |
Swallow-tailed
(a.) United by dovetailing |
Tailed
(a.) Having a tail |
Wedge-tailed
(a.) Having a tail which has the middle pair of feathers longest, the rest successively and decidedly shorter, and all more or less attenuate |
Wire-tailed
(a.) Having some or all of the tail quills terminated in a long, slender, pointed shaft, without a web or barbules. |
green-tailed towhee
Chlorura chlorura | towhee of the Rocky Mountains |
| starling | gregarious birds native to the Old World |
common starling
Sturnus vulgaris | gregarious bird having plumage with dark metallic gloss, builds nests around dwellings and other structures, naturalized worldwide |
roseolored starling
roseolored pastor
Pastor sturnus
Pastor roseus | glossy black bird with pink back and abdomen, chiefly Asian |
redtail red-tailed hawk
Buteo jamaicensis | dark brown American hawk species having a reddish-brown tail |
swallow-tailed kite
swallow-tailed hawk
Elanoides forficatus | graceful North American black-and-white kite |
white-tailed kite
Elanus leucurus | grey-and-white American kite of warm and tropical regions |
ern
erne
grey sea eagle
gray sea eagle
European sea eagle
white-tailed sea eagle
Haliatus albicilla | bulky greyish-brown eagle with a short wedge-shaped white tail, of Europe and Greenland |
tailed frog
bell toad
ribbed toad
tailed toad
Ascaphus trui | western North American frog with a taillike copulatory organ |
zebra-tailed lizard
gridiron-tailed lizard
Callisaurus draconoides | swift lizard with long black-banded tail and long legs, of deserts of United States and Mexico |
glossy snake
Arizona elegans | nocturnal burrowing snake of western United States with shiny tan scales |
sharp-tailed grouse
sprigtail
sprig tail
Pedioecetes phasianellus | large grouse of prairies and open forests of western North America |
band-tailed pigeon
band-tail pigeon
bandtail
Columba fasciata | wild pigeon of western North America, often mistaken for the now extinct passenger pigeon |
pin-tailed sandgrouse
pin-tailed grouse
Pterocles alchata | sandgrouse of Europe and Africa having elongated middle tail feathers |
pintail pin-tailed duck
Anas acuta | long-necked river duck of the Old and New Worlds having elongated central tail feathers |
nail-tailed wallaby
nail-tailed kangaroo | small wallabies with a horny nail on the tip of the tail |
brush-tailed phalanger
Trichosurus vulpecula | bushy-tailed phalanger |
brewer's mole
hair-tailed mole
Parascalops breweri | mole of eastern North America |
short-tailed shrew
Blarina brevicauda | North American shrew with tail less than half its body length |
slender-tailed meerkat
Suricata suricatta | a meerkat with a thin and elongated tail |
freetail
free-tailed bat
freetailed bat | small swift insectivorous bat with leathery ears and a long tail, common in warm regions |
| copper | any of various small butterflies of the family Lycaenidae having coppery wings |
American copper
Lycaena hypophlaeas | common copper butterfly of central and eastern North America |
white-tailed jackrabbit
whitetail jackrabbit
Lepus townsendi | largest hare of northern plains and western mountains of United States, brownish-grey in summer and pale grey in winter, tail nearly always all white |
round-tailed muskrat
Florida water rat
Neofiber alleni | of Florida wetlands |
brush-tailed porcupine
brush-tail porcupine | porcupine with a tuft of large beaded bristles on the tail |
long-tailed porcupine
Trichys lipura | porcupine of Borneo and Sumatra having short spines and a long tail |
Virginia deer
white tail
whitetail
white-tailed deer
whitetail deer
Odocoileus Virginianus | common North American deer, tail has a white underside |
black-tailed deer
blacktail deer
blacktail
Odocoileus hemionus columbianus | mule deer of western Rocky Mountains |
longtail weasel
long-tailed weasel
Mustela frenata | the common American weasel distinguished by large size and black-tipped tail |
pentail
pen-tail
pen-tailed tree shrew | brown tree shrew having a naked tail bilaterally fringed with long stiff hairs on the distal third, of Malaysia |
Madagascar cat
ring-tailed lemur
Lemur catta | small lemur having its tail barred with black |
a bassarisk
cacomistle
cacomixle
coon cat raccoon fox
ringtail ring-tailed cat
civet cat miner's cat
Bassariscus astutus | raccoon-like omnivorous mammal of Mexico and the southwestern United States having a long bushy tail with black and white rings |
copper rockfish
Sebastodes caurinus | a rockfish of the Pacific coastal waters of North America |
| copper mine | a mine where copper is dug from the ground |
| four-tailed bandage | a bandage consisting of a strip of cloth split in two on both ends, the central part is placed under the chin to restrict motion of the mandible and the tails are tied over the top of the head |
| glossy | a photograph that is printed on smooth shiny paper |
swallow-tailed coat
swallowtail
morning coat | a man's full-dress jacket with two long tapering tails at the back |
copper
copper color | a reddish-brown color resembling the color of polished copper |
slick
slick magazine
glossy | a magazine printed on good quality paper |
bull
cop
copper
fuzz
pig | uncomplimentary terms for a policeman |
nark
copper's nark | an informer or spy working for the police |
copper beech
purple beech
Fagus sylvatica atropunicea
Fagus purpurea
Fagus sylvatica purpurea | variety of European beech with shining purple or copperolored leaves |
| copper | a copper penny |
rhinophyma
hypertrophic rosacea
toper's nose
brandy nose
rum nose
rum-blossom
potato nose
hammer nose
copper nose | enlargement of the nose with dilation of follicles and redness and prominent vascularity of the skin, often associated with excessive consumption of alcohol |
copper
Cu
atomic number | a ductile malleable reddish-brown corrosionesistant diamagnetic metallic element, occurs in various minerals but is the only metal that occurs abundantly in large masses, used as an electrical and thermal conductor |
chalcocite
copper glance | a heavy grey mineral that is an ore of copper |
chalcopyrite
copper pyrites | a yellow copper ore (CuFeS) made up of copper and iron sulfide |
| blister copper | an impure form of copper having a black blistered surface |
| copper-base alloy | any alloy whose principal component is copper |