Lop \Lop\, a.
   Hanging down; as, lop ears; -- used also in compound
   adjectives; as, lopeared; lopsided.
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	Lop \Lop\, n. [AS. loppe.]
   A flea. [Obs.] --Cleveland.
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	Lop \Lop\ (l[o^]p), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Lopped; p. pr. & vb.
   n. Lopping.] [Prov. G. luppen, lubben, to cut, geld, or OD.
   luppen, D. lubben.]
   1. To cut off as the top or extreme part of anything; to
      shorten by cutting off the extremities; to cut off, or
      remove, as superfluous parts; as, to lop a tree or its
      branches. "With branches lopped, in wood or mountain
      felled." --Milton.
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            Expunge the whole, or lop the excrescent parts.
                                                  --Pope.
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   2. To cut partly off and bend down; as, to lop bushes in a
      hedge.
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	Lop \Lop\, n.
   That which is lopped from anything, as branches from a tree.
   --Shak. Mortimer.
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	Lop \Lop\, v. i.
   To hang downward; to be pendent; to lean to one side.
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	Lop \Lop\, v. t.
   To let hang down; as, to lop the head.
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	lop
    v 1: cut off from a whole; "His head was severed from his body";
         "The soul discerped from the body" [syn: discerp,
         sever, lop]
    2: cultivate, tend, and cut back the growth of; "dress the
       plants in the garden" [syn: snip, clip, crop, trim,
       lop, dress, prune, cut back]

	

	92 Moby Thesaurus words for "lop":
   abscind, amputate, annihilate, bag, bagging, baggy, ballooning,
   ban, bar, bob, bounce, bound, cascade, clip, crop, cull, cut,
   cut away, cut off, cut out, daggle, dangle, depend, dock, drabble,
   drag, draggle, drape, droop, drooping, droopy, eliminate,
   enucleate, eradicate, except, excise, exclude, extinguish,
   extirpate, fall, flap, flop, floppy, flow, hang, hang down, hop,
   hurdle, isolate, knock off, leap, limp, loll, lollop, loose,
   lop-eared, loppy, mutilate, nip, nod, nodding, pare, peel, pend,
   pick out, prune, root out, rule out, sag, sagging,
   sagging in folds, saggy, set apart, set aside, shave, shear, slump,
   spring, stamp out, strike off, strip, strip off, swag, swing,
   take off, take out, trail, trollop, truncate, vault, weep,
   wipe out

	

	LOP
       Loss of Pointer (UNI)

	

	LOP

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