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

A kind of cloak or surtout. [Obs.] Johnson. Let the looped bavaroy the fop embrace. Gay.

A short rein looped over the check hook or the hames to keep the horse's head up; -- called in the United States a checkrein.

ffenders on the bare back. -- Cat's cradle, game played, esp. by children, with a string looped on the fingers so, as to resemble small cradle. The string is transferred from the fingers of one to those of another, at each transfer with a change of form. See Cratch, Cratch cradle. -- To let the cat out of the bag, to…

Work looped or linked after the manner of a chain; chain stitch work.

upon a bank. -- Check hook, a hook on the saddle of a harness, over which a checkrein is looped. -- Check list, a list or catalogue by which things may be verified, or on which they may be checked. -- Check nut (Mech.), a secondary nut, screwing down upon the primary nut to secure it. Knight. -- Check valve (Mech.)…

A short rein looped over the check hook to prevent a horse from lowering his head; -- called also a bearing rein.

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

The bunch of looped capillary blood vessels in a Malpighian capsule of the kidney.

An arrangement of lace or tulle, looped ornamentally, and worn by women on the front of the dress.

rical burden, as a cask. The middle of a long rope is made fast aloft, and both parts are looped around the object, which rests in the loops, and rolls in them as the ends are hauled up or payed out.

sts of a cylinder of wood, covered with sheepskin with the wool on, or cloth with a heavy looped nap, and having a handle, or staff.

Having windows or openings. [R.] "Looped and windowed raggedness." Shak.

.] Wire bed, Wire mattress, an elastic bed bottom or mattress made of wires interwoven or looped together in various ways. -- Wire bridge, a bridge suspended from wires, or cables made of wire. -- Wire cartridge, a shot cartridge having the shot inclosed in a wire cage. -- Wire cloth, a coarse cloth made of woven me…