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copper
Part of speech: NounA common, reddish metallic element, easily worked, and an excellent conductor of heat and electricity; something made of this metal, as the cent.
Part of speech: Adjective Usage examples "copper":- I saw many of the American copper with them, these with a more conspicuous white margin to the tiny wings than I have ever seen before, a fall form I fancy rather than anything permanently new in this rather variable insect. - "Old Plymouth Trails", Winthrop Packard.
- When Snowflower's father and mother came home, they noticed at once that the little copper coin had gone, and Snowflower told them that she had given it to a wandering minstrel. - "The Blue Rose Fairy Book", Maurice Baring.
- After these words she hobbled back on her crutch to the copper vessel, gathered herself together, as it were, into a ball, tumbled hastily in, and closed the cover on herself. - "Eastern Tales by Many Story Tellers", Various.