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suddenly, as the wind; also, having tumbling waves dashing against each other; as, a chopping sea.

The act of cutting off, curtailing, or diminishing; the practice of clipping the edges of coins. clipping by Englishmen is robbing the honest man who receives clipped money. Locke.

Boorish; rude. C. Bronté.

To compress; to shut up. [Obs.] Burton.

The highest or covering course of masonry in a wall, often with sloping edges to carry off water; -- sometimes called capping. Gwill.

Same as Countertrippant.

Crawling, or moving close to the ground. "Every creeping thing." Gen. vi. 20.

The stonecrop (Sedum acre).

by creeping slowly; in the manner of a reptile; insidiously; cunningly. How slily and creepingly did he address himself to our first parents. South.

m over the spot. Also, sometimes, a similar operation for drawing pus from an abscess. Cupping glass, a glass cup in which a partial vacuum is produced by heat, in the process of cupping. -- Dry cupping, the application of a cupping instrument without scarification, to draw blood to the surface, produce counter irrita…

The process of cleaning or brightening sheet metal or metalware, esp. brass, by dipping it in acids, etc.

That which falls in drops, as fat from meat in roasting. Dripping pan, a pan for receiving the fat which drips from meat in roasting.

In a drooping manner.

That which falls in drops; the excrement or dung of animals. Dropping bottle, an instrument used to supply small quantities of a fluid to a test tube or other vessel. -- Dropping fire, a continued irregular discharge of firearms. -- Dropping tube, a tube for ejecting any liquid in drops.

In drops.

The habit of lurking about dwelling houses, and other places where persons meet fro private intercourse, secretly listening to what is said, and then tattling it abroad. The offense is indictable at common law. Wharton.

Shining. [Obs.] G. Fletcher.

The act or the process of making electrotypes.

An iron needle for piercing the cartridge of a cannon before priming.

A lashing binding a thing tightly or binding things together.