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A small loop or bow of ribbon used in making hats, boas, etc.

frigate, and having usually only one tier of guns; -- called in the United States navy a sloop of war.

numerous tiny craft moving over the lake. Prof. Wilson. Small crafts, small vessels, as sloops, schooners, ets.

An embrasure or indentation in a battlement; a loophole in a fortress; an indentation; a notch. See Merlon, and Illust. of Battlement.

A riding whip with a loop instead of a lash. Neck and crop, altogether; roughly and at once. [Colloq.]

A leather loop, passing under a horse's tail, and buckled to the saddle to keep it from slipping forwards.

y should a man. whose blood is warm within, Sit like his grandsire cut in alabaster Shak. Loopholes cut through thickest shade. Milton.

A fast sailing vessel with one mast, rigged in most essentials like a sloop. A cutter is narrower end deeper than a sloop of the same length, and depends for stability on a deep keel, often heavily weighted with lead.

A sloop or cutter with a jigger on which a lugsail is set.

A double star; -- applied to the nucleus of a cell, when, during cell division, the loops of the nuclear network separate into two groups, preparatory to the formation of two daughter nuclei. See Karyokinesis.

A small loop to receive a hook; as hooks and eyes on a dress.

A bolt which a looped head, or an opening in the head.

A splice formed by bending a rope's and back, and fastening it into the rope, forming a loop or eye. See Illust. under Splice.

A bend or loop of a rope. In a fang, fast entangled. -- To lose the fang, said of a pump when the water has gone out; hence: To fang a pump, to supply it with the water necessary to make it operate. [Scot.]

nd with in battle; to war against; as, they fought the enemy in two pitched battles; the sloop fought the frigate for three hours.

rod, a long slender rod, to which is attached the line for angling. -- Fishing smack, a sloop or other small vessel used in sea fishing. -- Fishing tackle, apparatus used in fishing, as hook, line, rod, etc. -- Fishing tube (Micros.), a glass tube for selecting a microscopic object in a fluid.

The piece hinged to the needle, which holds the engaged loop in position while the needle is penetrating another loop; a latch. Knight.

branches, which have a common asymptote. The curve has a double point, and a leaf-shaped loop; whence the name. Its equation is x3 + y3 = axy.

ith sails bent to gaffs or set on stays in the midship line of the vessel. See Schooner, Sloop, Cutter.

The fore staysail of a sloop, being the triangular sail next forward of the mast.