An Etymological Dictionary of the Scottish Language / in which the words are explained in their different senses, authorized by the names of the writers by whom they are used, or the titles of the works in which they occur, and deduced from their originals

by John Jamieson

COPER, s. A dealer.
V. [Couper].

COPY, s. Plenty, abundance.
Wyntown.

Lat. copia.

COPPER, s. A cupbearer.
Palice of Hon.

Evidently from A. S. cop, a cup.

COPPIN, part. pa. Coppin in hevin, elevated to heaven.
King's Quair.

A. S. cop, the summit.

CORANICH, CORRENOTH, CORRINOCH, s.
1. A dirge, a lamentation for the dead, S.
Lyndsay.

Ir. Gael. coranach, from cora, a quoir, Lat. chorus.

2. A cry of alarm, a sort of war-cry.
Bannatyne Poems.
3. A proclamation of outlawry by means of the bagpipe.
Warton.