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Appearing as if cut off at the tip; as, a truncate leaf or feather.

d, or cut off, by a plane, especially when equally inclined to the adjoining faces; as, a truncated edge.

To shorten by cutting; to cut off; to lop off.

To deprive of a limb; to lop. [R.]

Having the edges truncated.

Growing broader and broader, as a leaf; truncate.

The hipped part of a roof which is hipped only for a part of its height, leaving a truncated gable.

of Loop. Looping snail (Zoöl.), any species of land snail of the genus Truncatella; -- so called because it creeps like the measuring worms.

A low tower, having a truncated pyramidal form, and flanking an ancient Egyptian gateway. Massive pylons adorned with obelisks in front. J. W. Draper.

Reduced to a stub; short and thick, like something truncated; blunt; obtuse.

e of sugar. -- Sugar loaf. (a) A loaf or mass of refined sugar, usually in the form of a truncated cone. (b) A hat shaped like a sugar loaf. Why, do not or know you, grannam, and that sugar loaf J. Webster. -- Sugar maple (Bot.), the rock maple (Acer saccharinum). See Maple. -- Sugar mill, a machine for pressing out…

ectognath fish (Mola mola, Mola rotunda, or Orthagoriscus mola) having a broad body and a truncated tail.

A large truncated cone of refined sugar.

The state of being truncated.

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

Broad and truncate at the summit, and tapering down to the base; as, a wedge-shaped leaf.