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Bent, folded, or tied, so as to make a loop; as, a looped wire or string.

An instrument, as a bodkin, for forming a loop in yarn, a cord, etc.

A small opening, as in the walls of fortification, or in the bulkhead of a ship, through which small arms or other weapons may be discharged at an enemy.

Provided with loopholes.

Deceitful; cunning; sly. [Scot.]

of Loop. Looping snail (Zoöl.), any species of land snail of the genus Truncatella; -- so called because it creeps like the measuring worms.

A small narrow opening or window in a tower or fortified wall; a loophole.

One of a class of marauders or bandits that formerly infested the border country between England and Scotland; -- so called in allusion to the mossy or boggy character of much of the border country.

A fool; a silly or stupid person. [Law] An old ninnyhammer, a dotard, a nincompoop, is the best language she can afford me. Addison.

See Orlop. [Obs.]

A small mass of tubules near the ovary in some animals, and corresponding with the parepididymis of the male.

the hindmost or after part of a vessel's hull; also, a cabin covered by such a deck. See Poop deck, under Deck. See also Roundhouse. With wind in poop, the vessel plows the sea. Dryden. The poop was beaten gold. Shak.

Having a poop; furnished with a poop.

The act or shock of striking a vessel's stern by a following wave or vessel.

The male of the European bullfinch. [Prov. Eng.]

See Roup. [Prov. Eng.]

and other ingredients, at one time much used in London. J. Smith (Dict. econ. Plants). Saloop bush (Bot.), an Australian shrub (Rhagodia hastata) of the Goosefoot family, used for fodder.

any similar implement for digging out and dipping or shoveling up anything; as, a flour scoop; the scoop of a dredging machine.

One who, or that which scoops.

imp. of Shape. Shaped. Chaucer.