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To cut off as the top or extreme part of anything; to shoas, to lop a tree or its branches. "With branches lopped, in wood or mountain felled." Milton. Expunge the whole, or lop the excrescent parts. Pope.

of Leap. [Obs.] And, laughing, lope into a tree. Spenser.

Having ears which lop or hang down.

Leaper; ropedancer. [Obs.]

One who, or that which, lopes; esp., a horse that lopes. [U.S.]

A nitrogenous organic base obtained by the oxidation of amarine, and regarded as a derivative of benzoic aldehyde. It is obtained in long white crystalline tufts, -- whence its name.

A very singular rodent (Lophiomys Imhausi) of Northeastern Africa. It is the only known representative of a special family (Lophiomyidæ), remarkable for the structure of the skull. It has handlike feet, and the hair is peculiar in structure and arrangement.

Of or pertaining to the Lophobranchii. -- n.

Of or pertaining to the Lophobranchii.

An order of teleostean fishes, having the gills arranged in tufts on the branchial arches, as the Hippocampus and pipefishes.

A disk which surrounds the mouth and bears the tentacles of the Bryozoa. See Phylactolemata.

Same as Phylactolemata.

The central keel-bearing part of the sternum in birds.

A tree, the top of which has been lopped off. [Eng.]

One who lops or cuts off.

A cutting off, as of branches; that which is cut off; leavings. The loppings made from that stock whilst it stood. Burke.

Somewhat lop; inclined to lop.

A perennial herb (Phryma Leptostachya), having slender seedlike fruits.

Leaning to one side because of some defect of structure; as, a lopsided ship. Marryat.

An animal having feet that are not apparent.