Some bending down and coping to ward the earth. De Colange.nnTo form a cope or arch to bend or arch to bow. (Founding) The top part of a flask or mold the outer part of a loam mold. An ancient tribute due to the lord of the soil, out of the lead mines in derbyshire, England. A hundred and sixty priests all in their copes. It is worn in processions and on some other occasions. An ecclesiastical vestment or cloak, semicircular in form, reaching from the shoulders nearly to the feet, and open in front except at the top, whereit is united by a band or clasp. Anything regarded as extended over the head, as the arch or concave of the sky, the roof of a house, the arch over a door. Cop waste, a kind of cotton waste, composed chiefly A tube or quill upon which silk is wound. A conical or conical-ended mass of coiled thread, yarn, or roving, wound upon a spindle, etc. Cop they used to call The tops of many hills. Serve as clues to guide us into further knowledge. This clue once found unravels all the rest. of Block.nnA ball of thread a thread or other means of guidance. Clew-line block (Naut.), The block through which a clew line reeves. Clew line (Naut.), a rope by which a clew of one of the smaller square sails, as topsail, topgallant sail, or royal, is run up to its yard. Clew garnet (Naut.), one of the ropes by which the clews of the courses of square-rigged vessels are drawn up to the lower yards. (c.) A combination of lines or nettles by which a hammock is suspended. (b.) A loop and thimbles at the corner of a sail. (Naut.) (a.) A lower corner of a square sail, or the after corner of a fore- and-aft sail. The clew, without which it was perilous to enter the vast and intricate maze of countinental politics, was in his hands. That which guides or directs one in anything of a doubtful or intricate nature that which gives a hint in the solution of a mystery. A ball of thread, yarn, or cord also, The thread itself.