1. copse - Noun
2. copse - Verb
A wood of small growth; a thicket of brushwood. See Coppice.
To trim or cut; -- said of small trees, brushwood, tufts of grass, etc.
To plant and preserve, as a copse.
Source: Webster's dictionarySweet empty sky of June without a stain, Faint, gray-blue dewy mists on far-off hills Warm, yellow sunlight flooding mead and plain, That each dark copse and hollow overfills:. Emma Lazarus
Although the U.S. line wavered and broke temporarily at a jog called the "Angle" in a low stone fence, just north of a patch of vegetation called the Copse of Trees, reinforcements rushed into the breach, and the Confederate attack was repulsed. Source: Internet
A haze of heat hangs flat over a copse of hundred-year-old oaks and dry scrubland of the Judean foothills where people may have lived for millennia, but not a soul is around today. Source: Internet
Gathering in the copse at the end of the lane, they chattered loudly, if not quite amicably, the noise peaking as several hundred others joined them on the crowded perch. Source: Internet
He woke his wife Normande and 19-year-old son Jared and moved them to the other side of the house away from the copse of old conifers now swaying dangerously. Source: Internet
The trenches from which the Accrington Pals advanced on 1 July 1916 are still visible in John Copse west of the village of Serre, and there is a memorial there made of Accrington brick. Source: Internet