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Webster 1913 Edition

Noun.

[Contr. from

coppice

A wood of small growth; a thicket of brushwood. See

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copse

where once the garden smiled.

Goldsmith.

Verb.

To trim or cut; – said of small trees, brushwood, tufts of grass, etc.

Halliwell.

To plant and preserve, as a copse.

Swift.

Noun.

[See Coppice.]

Verb.

To preserve underwoods.