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A suborder of lophobranch fishes which have an elongated snout and lack the ventral and first dorsal fins. The pipefishes and sea horses are examples. -- Syng"na*thous, a.

A large, edible, deep-water food fish (Lopholatilus chamæleonticeps) more or less thickly covered with large, round, yellow spots.

To lead or direct, and form to a wall or espalier; to form to a proper shape, by bending, lopping, or pruning; as, to train young trees. He trained the young branches to the right hand or to the left. Jeffrey.

Especially, loppings and leaves of trees, bruised sugar cane, or the like.

To make ready or right by cutting or shortening; to clip or lop; to curtail; as, to trim the hair; to trim a tree. " And trimmed the cheerful lamp." Byron.

To cut off; to lop; to maim.

The act of truncating, lopping, or cutting off.

A stout stem, as of a tree, with the branches lopped off, to produce rapid growth. Gardner.

To lop off; to curtail; to truncate; to maim. [Obs.] "Out of the trunked stock." Spenser.

A median ossification back of the lophosteon in the sternum of some birds.

intention; intentional; purposed; intended; not accidental; as, if a man kills another by lopping a tree, it is not voluntary manslaughter.