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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Copse \Copse\, noun [Contr. from coppice.] A wood of small growth; a thicket of brushwood. See {Coppice}.
Near yonder copse where once the garden smiled. --Goldsmith.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Copse \Copse\, verb (used with an object)
1. To trim or cut; -- said of small trees, brushwood, tufts of grass, etc. --Halliwell.
2. To plant and preserve, as a copse. --Swift.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
copse
noun: a dense growth of bushes [syn: {brush}, {brushwood}, {coppice}, {thicket}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
43 Moby Thesaurus words for "copse": batch, bocage, boscage, bosk, bosket, brake, bunch, canebrake, ceja, chamisal, chaparral, clump, cluster, coppice, copsewood, covert, crop, frith, group, grouping, groupment, grove, hassock, holt, hurst, knot, lot, mess, motte, orchard, shaw, shock, slew, spinney, stook, thicket, thickset, tope, tuft, tussock, wisp, wood lot, woodlet
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