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Coppard, A.E. ... Coral Sea Islands

Coppard, A.E. writer who achieved fame with his short stories depicting the English rural scene and its characters. Coppee, Francois French poet, dramatist, and short-story writer known for his somewhat sentimental treatment of the life of the poor. copper chemical element, a reddish, extremely ductile metal of Group 11 (Ib) of the periodic table that is an unusually good conductor of electricity and heat. Copper is found in the free metallic state in nature; this native copper was first used (c. 8000 BC) as a substitute for stone by ... Copper Age early phase of the Bronze Age (q.v.). copper butterfly any member of a group of butterflies in the gossamer-winged butterfly family, Lycaenidae (order Lepidoptera). The copper's typical coloration ranges from orange-red to brown, usually with a copper tinge and dark markings. copper processing the extraction of copper from its ores and the preparation of copper metal or chemical compounds for use in various products. copper work tools, implements, weapons, and artwork made of copper. Copper's discovery precedes recorded history, and it was the first metal that was used in fashioning tools and weapons. Its use dates at least from 4000 BC in Chaldea, and perhaps earlier. Although bronze, and later iron, became the preferred material for ... Copperbelt in African geography, zone of copper deposits and associated mining and industrial development dependent upon them, forming the greatest concentration of industry in sub-Saharan Africa outside the Republic of South Africa. The belt extends about 280 miles (450 km) northwest from Luanshya, Zamb., into the Katanga (formerly Shaba) region of ... Copperbelt province, central Zambia, East Africa, bounded by the provinces of North-Western (west) and Central (south). It borders Congo (Kinshasa) on the north and east. The region lies on the eastern Central African Plateau, with gently undulating terrain mostly between 3,000 and 5,000 feet (900 and 1,500 metres) in elevation and ... Copperfield, David American entertainer, one of the best-known stage illusionists of the late 20th and early 21st centuries. Copperfield, David fictional character, the young hero of Charles Dickens's most popular novel, the semiautobiographical David Copperfield (1849-50). Copperhead during the American Civil War, pejoratively, any citizen in the North who opposed the war policy and advocated restoration of the Union through a negotiated settlement with the South. The word Copperhead was first so used by the New York Tribune on July 20, 1861, in reference to the snake ... copperhead any of several unrelated snakes named for their reddish head colour. The North American copperhead Agkistrodon (also spelled Ancistrodon) contortrix is a venomous species found in swampy, rocky, and wooded regions of the eastern and central United States. Also called highland moccasin, it is a member of the viper family ... copperleaf (genus Acalypha), any of several plants of the spurge family (Euphorbiaceae), but usually A. wilkesiana, a popular shrub of tropical gardens that has red, blotched reddish brown, and pink foliage. It is also known widely as Jacob's coat and as match-me-if-you-can. The copperleaf is native to Polynesia. It reaches about ... Coppermine River stream, in southern Kitikmeot region, Nunavut territory, and northern Fort Smith region, Northwest Territories, Canada. From its source in a small lake of the Barren Grounds (a subarctic prairie region), north of Great Slave Lake, it flows northward for 525 miles (845 km), draining several lakes, including de Gras, Point, ... copperplate script in calligraphy, dominant style among 18th-century writing masters, whose copybooks were splendidly printed from models engraved on copper. The alphabet was fundamentally uncomplicated, but the basic strokes were often concealed in luxuriant flourishing and dazzling professional displays of "command of hand." Hence, the 19th-century term copperplate hand usually connotes calligraphic ... coppice a dense grove of small trees or shrubs that have grown from suckers or sprouts rather than from seed. A coppice usually results from human woodcutting activity and may be maintained by continually cutting new growth as it reaches usable size. Coppin, Fanny Jackson American educator and missionary whose innovations as head principal of the Institute for Colored Youth in Philadelphia included a practice-teaching system and an elaborate industrial-training department. Coppola, Francis Ford American motion-picture director, writer, and producer whose films range from sweeping epics to small-scale character studies. copra dried sections of the meat of the coconut, the kernel of the fruit of the coconut palm (Cocos nucifera). Copra is valued for the coconut oil extracted from it and for the resulting residue, coconut-oil cake, which is used mostly for livestock feed. coprocessor Additional processor used in some personal computers to perform specialized tasks such as extensive arithmetic calculations or processing of graphical displays. The coprocessor is often designed to do such tasks more efficiently than the main processor, resulting in far greater speeds for the computer as a whole. coprolite the fossilized excrement of animals. The English geologist William Buckland coined the term in 1835 after he and fossilist Mary Anning recognized that certain convoluted masses occurring in the Lias rock strata of Gloucestershire and dating from the Early Jurassic Period (200 million to 176 million years ago) had a ... coprophagy eating of dung, or feces, considered abnormal among human beings but apparently instinctive among certain members of the order Lagomorpha (rabbits and hares) and in at least one leaf-eating primate (genus Lepilemur). It is thought that these animals obtain needed vitamins in this way. The diets of certain insect species, ... Copson, Edward Thomas mathematician known for his contributions to analysis and partial differential equations, especially as they apply to mathematical physics. Coptic art any of the visual arts associated with the Greek- and Egyptian-speaking Christian peoples of Egypt from about the 3rd to the 12th century AD. It is essentially reflected in the stone reliefs, wood carvings, and wall paintings of the monasteries of Egypt. It is, nonetheless, common practice to include within ... Coptic Catholic Church Eastern Catholic church of the Alexandrian rite (q.v.) in Egypt, in communion with Rome since 1741, when Athanasius, a Monophysite (acknowledging only one nature in the person of Christ) Coptic bishop, became a Roman Catholic. Two succeeding bishops remained unconsecrated because they were unable to travel to Europe and there ... Coptic chant liturgical music of the descendants of ancient Egyptians who converted to Christianity prior to the Islamic conquest of Egypt in the 7th century. The term Coptic derives from Arabic qibt, a corruption of Greek Aigyptios ("Egyptian"); when Muslim Egyptians no longer called themselves by that name, it was applied to ... Coptic language an Afro-Asiatic language that was spoken in Egypt from about the 2nd century CE and that represents the final stage of the ancient Egyptian language. In contrast to earlier stages of Egyptian, which used hieroglyphic writing, hieratic script, or demotic script, Coptic was written in the Greek alphabet, supplemented by ... Coptic literature body of writings, almost entirely religious, that dates from the 2nd century, when the Coptic language of Egypt, the last stage of ancient Egyptian, began to be used as a literary language, until its decline in the 7th and 8th centuries. It contains, in addition to translations from the Greek, ... Coptic Orthodox Church of Alexandria Oriental Orthodox church and principal Christian church in predominantly Muslim Egypt. The people of Egypt before the Arab conquest in the 7th century identified themselves and their language in Greek as Aigyptios (Arabic qibt, Westernized as Copt). When Egyptian Muslims later ceased to call themselves Aigyptioi, the term became the ... copyhold in English law, a form of landholding defined as a "holding at the will of the lord according to the custom of the manor." Its origin is found in the occupation by villeins, or nonfreemen, of portions of land belonging to the manor of the feudal lord. copyright the exclusive, legally secured right to reproduce, distribute, and perform a literary, musical, dramatic, or artistic work. Copyright Act of 1790 law enacted in 1790 by the U.S. Congress to establish rules of copyright for intellectual works created by citizens and legal residents of the United States. The first such federal law, it was formally titled "An Act for the Encouragement of Learning, by securing the Copies of Maps, Charts, and ... coquecigrue an imaginary creature regarded as an embodiment of absolute absurdity. Francois Rabelais in Gargantua uses the phrase a la venue des cocquecigrues to mean "never." Charles Kingsley in The Water Babies has the fairy Bedonebyasyoudid report that there are seven things he is forbidden to tell until "the coming of ... Coquelin, Benoit-Constant French actor of unusual range and versatility. Coquimbo region, northern Chile, bordering Argentina to the east and fronting the Pacific Ocean to the west. It lies in an arid to semiarid area of east-west valleys and brush-covered ridges called the Norte Chico ("Little North"). It was one of the eight original Chilean provinces created in 1826; its present ... Coquimbo city, northern Chile. Founded in 1850, it is the main port in the area. Situated 7 miles (11 km) southwest of La Serena on Coquimbo Bay, its roadstead and dock area, among the best sheltered in Chile, are a winter haven for the Chilean navy as well as a loading ... coquina limestone formed almost entirely of sorted and cemented fossil debris, most commonly coarse shells and shell fragments. Microcoquinas are similar sedimentary rocks that are composed of finer material. Common among microcoquinas are those formed from the disks and plates of crinoids (sea lilies). A coquinite is a stronger, more-consolidated version ... coquina clam any bivalve mollusk of the genus Donax. These marine invertebrates inhabit sandy beaches along coasts worldwide. A typical species, Donax variabilis, measures only about 10 to 25 mm (0.4 to 1 inch) in length. Its shell is wedge-shaped and varies widely in colour from white, yellow, and pink to blue ... Cor Caroli binary star located 110 light-years from Earth in the constellation Canes Venatici and consisting of a brighter component (A) of visual magnitude 2.9 and a companion (B) of magnitude 5.5. It is the prototype for a group of unusual-spectrum variable stars that show strong and fluctuating absorption lines of silicon, ... cor pulmonale enlargement of the right ventricle of the heart, resulting from disorders of the lungs or blood vessels of the lungs or from abnormalities of the chest wall. A person with cor pulmonale has a chronic cough, experiences difficulty in breathing after exertion, wheezes, and is weak and easily fatigued. Fluid ... coraciiform any member of an order made up of 10 families of birds that include the kingfishers, todies, motmots, bee-eaters, rollers, hoopoes, and hornbills. Among the members of the order that have attracted special attention are certain kingfishers that plunge headfirst into water for fish and are associated with Classical mythology; ... coracle primitive, light, bowl-shaped boat with a frame of woven grasses, reeds, or saplings covered with hides. Those still used, in Wales and on the coasts of Ireland, usually have a canvas and tar covering. American Indians used the similar bullboat, covered with buffalo hides, on the Missouri River, and the ... coral any of a variety of invertebrate marine organisms of the class Anthozoa (phylum Cnidaria) that are characterized by skeletons-external or internal-of a stonelike, horny, or leathery consistency. The term coral is also applied to the skeletons of these animals, particularly to those of the stonelike corals. coral bleaching whitening of coral that results from the loss of a coral's symbiotic algae (zooxanthellae) or the degradation of the algae's photosynthetic pigment. Bleaching is associated with the devastation of coral reefs, which are home to approximately 25 percent of all marine species. Coral Gables city, Miami-Dade county, southeastern Florida, U.S., on Biscayne Bay and adjoining Miami (northeast). George E. Merrick developed the site (beginning about 1920) from a nucleus of his family's 160 acres (65 hectares) of citrus and farmland and named it for the family's house of coral rock walls and gables. It ... coral island tropical island built of organic material derived from skeletons of corals and numerous other animals and plants associated with corals. Coral islands consist of low land perhaps only a few metres above sea level, generally with coconut palms and surrounded by white coral sand beaches. They may extend dozens of ... coral reef ridge or hummock formed in shallow ocean areas by algae and the calcareous skeletons of certain coelenterates, of which coral polyps are the most important. A coral reef may grow into a permanent coral island. Often called the "rainforests of the sea," coral reefs are home to a spectacular variety ... Coral Reefs: The Forgotten Rain Forests of the Sea: Year in Review 1998 Because they harbour great concentrations of biodiversity, coral reefs have been called the rain forests of the sea. With hundreds of species of corals and fishes frequently found on a single reef, metre for metre these undersea ecosystems may even exceed tropical rain forests as the most species-rich places on ... Coral Sea sea of the southwestern Pacific Ocean, extending east of Australia and New Guinea, west of New Caledonia and the New Hebrides, and south of the Solomon Islands. It is about 1,400 miles (2,250 km) north-south and 1,500 miles east-west and covers an area of 1,849,800 square miles (4,791,000 square km). ... Coral Sea Islands group of islands situated east of Queensland, Austl., in the South Pacific Ocean; they constitute an external territory of Australia. Spread over a vast sea area of about 300,000 square miles (780,000 square km) off the outer (eastern) edge of the Great Barrier Reef, the islands themselves occupy only a ...