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      "phonetic": [
        "koʊp"
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      "etymologies": [
        "From Middle English coupen, from Old French couper (“to strike, to cut”).",
        "From Middle English cope, from Medieval Latin cāpa (“cape”) Doublet of cap, cape, and chape.",
        "From Middle English copen, borrowed from Middle Dutch copen. Cognate with Dutch kopen, German kaufen.",
        "Unknown"
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          "name": "Verb",
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            {
              "mean": "(intransitive) To deal effectively with something, especially if difficult.\nI thought I would never be able to cope with life after the amputation, but I have learned how to be happy again."
            },
            {
              "mean": "To cut and form a mitred joint in wood or metal."
            },
            {
              "mean": "(falconry) To clip the beak or talons of a bird."
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          "name": "Noun",
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              "mean": "(slang) A coping mechanism or self-delusion one clings to in order to endure the hopelessness or despair of existence."
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          "name": "Noun_2",
          "meanlist": [
            {
              "mean": "A long, loose cloak worn by a priest, deacon, or bishop when presiding over a ceremony other than the Mass."
            },
            {
              "mean": "Any covering such as a canopy or a mantle."
            },
            {
              "mean": "(literary) The vault or canopy of the skies, heavens etc."
            },
            {
              "mean": "(construction) 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."
            },
            {
              "mean": "(foundry) The top part of a sand casting mold."
            },
            {
              "mean": "An ancient tribute due to the lord of the soil, out of the lead mines in Derbyshire, England."
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          "name": "Verb_2",
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              "mean": "(transitive) To cover (a joint or structure) with coping."
            },
            {
              "mean": "(intransitive) To form a cope or arch; to arch or bend; to bow."
            }
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        {
          "name": "Verb_3",
          "meanlist": [
            {
              "mean": "(obsolete) To bargain for; to buy."
            },
            {
              "mean": "(obsolete) To exchange or barter.\n1591,  Ed Sp,  “Prosopopoia. Or Mother Hubberds Tale.”, in  Complaints. Containing Sundrie Small Poemes of the Worlds Vanitie. , London:    William Ponsonbie, , →OCLC: Will cope with thee in reasonable wise; That if the living yerely doo arise To fortie pound, that then his yongest sonne Shall twentie have, and twentie thou hast wonne."
            },
            {
              "mean": "(obsolete) To make return for; to requite; to repay.\nc. 1596–1598 (date written),  William Shakespeare,  “The Merchant of Venice”, in  Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies  (First Folio), London:    Isaac Iaggard, and Ed Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, :Three thousand ducats due unto the Jew, / We freely cope your courteous pains withal."
            },
            {
              "mean": "(obsolete) To match oneself against; to meet; to encounter.\nc. 1598–1600 (date written),  William Shakespeare,  “As You Like It”, in  Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies  (First Folio), London:    Isaac Iaggard, and Ed Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, :I love to cope him in these sullen fits.\nc. 1602,  William Shakespeare,  “The Tragedie of Troylus and Cressida”, in  Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies  (First Folio), London:    Isaac Iaggard, and Ed Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, :They say he yesterday coped Hector in the battle, and struck him down.\n1708, John Philips, Cyder\nHost coped with host, dire was the din of war."
            },
            {
              "mean": "(obsolete) To encounter; to meet; to have to do with.\nc. 1599–1602 (date written),  William Shakespeare,  “The Tragedie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke”, in  Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies  (First Folio), London:    Isaac Iaggard, and Ed Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, :Horatio, thou art e'en as just a man / As e'er my conversation coped withal."
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              "mean": "^  1880, Leo de Colange, The American Dictionary of Commerce\n\n\ncope in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G.  C. Merriam, 1913"
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          "name": "Verb_4",
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              "mean": "(obsolete, dialect) To tie or sew up the mouth of a ferret used for hunting rabbits.\n1631, Richard Brathwaite, Whimzies:\nHis nimble ferrets must now become pioners for their master who coupes them, lest they should grow too fat to endure labour.\n1825, Robert Forby, The Vocabulary of East-Anglia:\nThe use of this word is confined to warreners, who are said to 'cope' their ferrets, when they sew or tie up their mouths, to prevent them from biting rabbits, when they are used to drive them from their holes."
            },
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              "mean": "(obsolete, figuratively) To silence or prevent from speaking.\n1601, John Deacon, John Walker, Dialogicall Discourses of Spirits and Divels:\nWell sir? how triflingly soeuer you trauers the matter, these my Philosophicall proceedings (for any thing hitherto heard) might fullie suffice to put your fantasticall fooleries to a perpetuall non-sute: were you not like to the rauenous Ferret, which rendeth in peeces whatsoeuer poore Rabbet doth come in her reach. And therefore it shall not be amisse to cope vp your lips a little, by taking foorthwith so strict a course as you shall neuer be able to contradict with all your skill: which may in this sort be verie fitly effected.\n1621, Thomas Dekker, Match Me in London:\nAnd tell me Signior, why when you eate our good cheare i'th City, haue you handſome wide chops, but meeting vs at Court, none; your gumme's glew'd vp, your lips coap'd like a Ferret, not ſo much as the corner of a Cuſtard; if a cold cup, and a dry cheate loaf 'tis well.\n1672, John Eachard, Mr. Hobbs's state of nature considered in a dialogue between Philautus and Timothy:\nThat is; because Roger has a vocal instrument between his chin and his nose, called a mouth, and being not muzled, gagged or cop'd; but having a free power, faculty or Page  127 May to open it, and order it as he think fit; therefore he May stretch it out as wide as he please, and swear quite cross the Island, that he'l have the whole, or at least half:"
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