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verb-intransitive. To contend or strive, especially on even terms or with success: coping with child rearing and a full-time job.

verb-intransitive. To contend with difficulties and act to overcome them: "Facing unprecedented problems, the Federal Reserve of the early 1930s couldn't cope” ( Robert J. Samuelson).

n. A long ecclesiastical vestment worn over an alb or surplice.

n. A covering resembling a cloak or mantle.

n. A coping.

v. To cover or dress in a cope.

v. To provide with coping: cope a wall.

v. To deal effectively with something difficult.

v. To cut and form a mitred joint in wood or metal.

v. To clip the beak or talons of a bird.

n. A long, loose cloak worn by a priest or bishop on ceremonial occasions.

n. Any covering such as a canopy or a mantle.

n. The "vault" or "canopy" of the skies, heavens etc.

n. A covering piece on top of a wall exposed to the weather, usually made of metal, masonry, or stone and sloped to carry off water.

n. The top part of a sand casting mold.

v. To cover (a joint or structure) with coping.

v. To bargain for; to buy.

v. To make return for; to requite; to repay.

v. To match oneself against; to meet; to encounter.

n. A covering for the head.

n. Anything regarded as extended over the head, as the arch or concave of the sky, the roof of a house, the arch over a door.

n. An ecclesiastical vestment or cloak, semicircular in form, reaching from the shoulders nearly to the feet, and open in front except at the top, where it is united by a band or clasp. It is worn in processions and on some other occasions.

n. An ancient tribute due to the lord of the soil, out of the lead mines in Derbyshire, England.

n. The top part of a flask or mold; the outer part of a loam mold.

verb-intransitive. To form a cope or arch; to bend or arch; to bow.

v. To pare the beak or talons of (a hawk).

verb-intransitive. To exchange or barter.

verb-intransitive. To encounter; to meet; to have to do with.

verb-intransitive. To enter into or maintain a hostile contest; to struggle; to combat; especially, to strive or contend on equal terms or with success; to match; to equal; -- usually followed by with.

v. To bargain for; to buy.

v. To make return for; to requite; to repay.

v. To match one's self against; to meet; to encounter.

n. A large outer garment; a cloak; a mantle.

n. Eccles., a large mantle of silk or other material worn by priests or bishops over the alb or surplice in processions, at solemn lauds or matins, at benedictions, and on other occasions.

n. In the University of Cambridge, England, the ermined robe worn by a doctor in the senate-house on Congregation day.

n. Anything spread or extended over the head, as the arch or concave of the sky, the roof or covering of a house, or the arch over a door; specifically, in architecture, a coping.

n. In founding, same as case, 10. See cut under flask.

To provide with a cope or cloak; cover with a cloak; cloak.

To cover as with a cope; furnish with a coping.

In architecture, to form a cope or coping; bend as an arch or vault. The soffit of any projection is said to cope over when it slopes downward from the wall.

To bargain for; buy.

To make return for; reward.

To bargain.

To strive or contend on equal terms; meet in combat; oppose: often with a preceding negative or word of negative import, the verb then implying ‘oppose with success’: followed by with.

To meet in contest or contention; oppose; encounter.

n. An ancient tribute due to the king or the lord of the soil out of the lead-mines in Derbyshire, England.

n. See coper.

In falconry, to cut, as the beak or talons of a hawk.

To muzzle, as a ferret, by sewing or tying up its mouth.

n. a long cloak; worn by a priest or bishop on ceremonial occasions

n. brick that is laid sideways at the top of a wall

v. come to terms with

"Fortescue himself (in cope) with some of his servers"

coped    copes    coping   

cloak    brick   

to cope off   

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