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

A lopping off; a diminution; abatement; deficit. Specifically: Reduction of a claim by deducting a counterclaim; set-off. Abbott.

The act of lopping or cutting off, as the head from the body.

Act of flopping. [Colloq.] W. H. Russell.

An implement for cutting grass or grain; a sickle; an instrument for cutting or lopping; a billhook. Like slashing Bentley with his desperate hook. Pope.

The act of lopping or cutting off. [R.] Cockeram.

Act of plopping; the sound made in plopping.

The act of topping, lopping, or cropping, as trees or hedges.

; a design; a project; as, to form a scheme. The stoical scheme of supplying our wants by lopping off our desires, is like cuttig off our feet when we want shoes. Swift.

To incline gradually; to be slopping; as, the bottom shelves from the shore.

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.

The act of truncating, lopping, or cutting off.

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