Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Having copses; covered with coppice or copses.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Characterized by copses.
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- adjective Characterized by
copses .
Etymologies
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Examples
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O ye copsy hills, ye green meadows, and ye rich streams in this blessed country, how have ye enchanted me?
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This particular morning, however, the wood-thrushes were all arranged up the copsy hillside at my back, and so reinforced each other that their part was not overborne by robin song.
Roof and Meadow Dallas Lore Sharp 1899
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On the fourteenth of January a company -- either the same or another -- was found in a small copsy hollow only a quarter of a mile from the city, while the spot previously occupied was deserted.
Our Bird Comrades 1896
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None of them were seen on the plains or in the foothills; they had already migrated from the lower altitudes, and had sought their summer residences in the upper mountain valleys, where they may be found in great abundance from an elevation of eight thousand feet to copsy haunts here and there far above the timber-line hard by the fields of snow.
Birds of the Rockies 1896
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On reaching the snow-belt, though still a little below the limit of copsy growths, we saw our first pipits, which, it will be remembered, I had encountered on the summit of Pike's Peak two years before.
Birds of the Rockies 1896
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It was my good fortune to find a nest on a copsy hilltop, where the bird's madrigals and lullabies mingled with those of the yellow-breasted chats, the indigo buntings, the blue-gray gnat catchers, and the Kentucky warblers.
Our Bird Comrades 1896
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If I had only been content to remain among the mountains, where, even though the climbing was difficult, there were brawling brooks, shady woodlands, and green, copsy vales in which many feathered friends had lurked!
Birds of the Rockies 1896
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It was just outside a copsy retreat that these three winged acquaintances met.
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O ye copsy hills, ye green meadows, and ye rich streams in this blessed country, how have ye enchanted me?
Travels in England in 1782 Karl Philipp Moritz 1775
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And if the copsy know where the thief works, that makes it a little bit easier to catch him, doesn't it?
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