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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.]

Loss of the hair; baldness.

A practitioner who tries to prevent or cure baldness.

orns are usually annulated, or ringed. There are many species in Africa and Asia. The antelope and wolf both fierce and fell. Spenser.

ingly; aslant; declining from an upright direction; sloping. "Set them not upright, but aslope." Bacon.

See Oryx.

Having ridges or bunches of flesh, like collops. With that red, gaunt, and colloped neck astrain. R. Browning.

e Cyclops; characteristic of the Cyclops; huge; gigantic; vast and rough; massive; as, Cyclopean labors; Cyclopean architecture.

mation in all departments of knowledge, or on a particular department or branch; as, a cyclopedia of the physical sciences, or of mechanics. See Encyclopedia.

Belonging to the circle of the sciences, or to a cyclopedia; of the nature of a cyclopedia; hence, of great range, extent, or amount; as, a man of cyclopedic knowledge.

A maker of, or writer for, a cyclopedia.

atent image upon a photographic plate, after exposure in the camera, or otherwise, is developed and visible.

d, who runs away with a paramour or a sweetheart. Great numbers of them [the women] have eloped from their allegiance. Addison.

The act of eloping; secret departure; -- said of a woman and a man, one or both, who run away from their homes for marriage or for cohabitation.

One who elopes.

nches of science or art are discussed separately, and usually in alphabetical order; a cyclopedia.

Encyclopedic.