ppl. a. [f. COPPER v. + -ED.]

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  1.  Covered, plated or coated with copper; copper-bottomed, as a ship.

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1647.  W. Browne, trans. Polexander, II. ¶¶¶ 4 a. The Ladies servants lifted him into a coppered chaire.

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1798.  H. Neale, in Naval Chron. (1799), I. 163. French brig, coppered.

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1840.  L’pool Mercury, 2 Oct., 4/1. American Ship Isaac Newton … copper-fastened and coppered, sails fast.

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1884.  Health Exhib. Catal., 88/1. Spring laths … on coppered springs.

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  † 2.  Affected with Acne rosacea. Obs.

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1544.  Phaër, Regim. Life (1553), B v a. Remedy to pallyfie the coppred face that is vncurable.

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