Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary · 1913
Copse
Copse (kŏps), n. [Contr. from coppice.] A wood of small growth; a thicket of brushwood. See Coppice.
Near yonder copse where once the garden smiled. Goldsmith.
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.