Hypertext Webster Gateway: "copse"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Copse \Copse\, v. t.
1. To trim or cut; -- said of small trees, brushwood, tufts
of grass, etc. --Halliwell.
2. To plant and preserve, as a copse. --Swift.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Copse \Copse\, n. [Contr. from coppice.]
A wood of small growth; a thicket of brushwood. See
{Coppice}.
Near yonder copse where once the garden smiled.
--Goldsmith.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
copse
n : a dense growth of bushes [syn: {brush}, {brushwood}, {coppice},
{thicket}]
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