cope

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

• intransitive verb To contend or strive, especially on even terms or with success.
• intransitive verb To contend with difficulties and act to overcome them.
• noun A long ecclesiastical vestment worn over an alb or surplice.
• noun A covering resembling a cloak or mantle.
• noun A coping.
• transitive verb To cover or dress in a cope.
• transitive verb To provide with coping.

from The Century Dictionary.

• noun A large outer garment; a cloak; a mantle.
• noun Eccles., a large mantle of silk or other material worn by priests or bishops over the alb or surplice in processions, at solemn lauds or matins, at benedictions, and on other occasions.
• noun In the University of Cambridge, England, the ermined robe worn by a doctor in the senate-house on Congregation day.
• noun Anything spread or extended over the head, as the arch or concave of the sky, the roof or covering of a house, or the arch over a door; specifically, in architecture, a coping.
• noun In founding, same as case, 10. See cut under flask.
• To provide with a cope or cloak; cover with a cloak; cloak.
• To cover as with a cope; furnish with a coping.
• In architecture, to form a cope or coping; bend as an arch or vault. The soffit of any projection is said to cope over when it slopes downward from the wall.
• To bargain for; buy.
• To make return for; reward.
• To bargain.
• To strive or contend on equal terms; meet in combat; oppose: often with a preceding negative or word of negative import, the verb then implying ‘oppose with success’: followed by with.
• To meet in contest or contention; oppose; encounter.
• noun An ancient tribute due to the king or the lord of the soil out of the lead-mines in Derbyshire, England.
• noun See coper.
• In falconry, to cut, as the beak or talons of a hawk.
• To muzzle, as a ferret, by sewing or tying up its mouth.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

• intransitive verb obsolete To form a cope or arch; to bend or arch; to bow.
• transitive verb (Falconry) To pare the beak or talons of (a hawk).
• noun obsolete A covering for the head.
• noun 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.
• noun An ecclesiastical vestment or cloak, semicircular in form, reaching from the shoulders nearly to the feet, and open in front except at the top, where it is united by a band or clasp. It is worn in processions and on some other occasions.
• noun An ancient tribute due to the lord of the soil, out of the lead mines in Derbyshire, England.
• noun (Founding) The top part of a flask or mold; the outer part of a loam mold.
• intransitive verb obsolete To exchange or barter.
• intransitive verb To encounter; to meet; to have to do with.
• intransitive verb To enter into or maintain a hostile contest; to struggle; to combat; especially, to strive or contend on equal terms or with success; to match; to equal; -- usually followed by with.
• transitive verb obsolete To bargain for; to buy.
• transitive verb obsolete To make return for; to requite; to repay.
• transitive verb To match one's self against; to meet; to encounter.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

• verb To deal effectively with something difficult.
• verb To cut and form a mitred joint in wood or metal.
• verb To clip the beak or talons of a bird.
• noun A long, loose cloak worn by a priest or bishop on ceremonial occasions.
• noun Any covering such as a canopy or a mantle.
• noun The "vault" or "canopy" of the skies, heavens etc.
• noun construction A covering piece on top of a wall exposed to the weather, usually made of metal, masonry, or stone and sloped to carry off water.
• noun foundry The top part of a sand casting mold.
• verb To cover (a joint or structure) with coping.
• verb obsolete To bargain for; to buy.
• verb obsolete To make return for; to requite; to repay.
• verb obsolete To match oneself against; to meet; to encounter.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

• noun a long cloak; worn by a priest or bishop on ceremonial occasions