The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Copse \Copse\, n. [Contr. from coppice.]
   A wood of small growth; a thicket of brushwood. See
   Coppice.
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         Near yonder copse where once the garden smiled.
                                                  --Goldsmith.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Copse \Copse\, v. t.
   1. To trim or cut; -- said of small trees, brushwood, tufts
      of grass, etc. --Halliwell.
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   2. To plant and preserve, as a copse. --Swift.
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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

copse
    n 1: a dense growth of bushes [syn: brush, brushwood,
         coppice, copse, thicket]