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Webster's 1828 Dictionary · 1828 1 of 6

Part of speech: noun (n.)

A flea.[Obs.] Cleveland.

Webster's 1828 Dictionary · 1828 2 of 6

Part of speech: noun (n.)

That which is lopped from anything, as branches from a tree. Shak. Mortimer.

Webster's 1828 Dictionary · 1828 3 of 6

Part of speech: verb (v.)

1. 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.

2. To cut partly off and bend down; as, to lop bushes in a hedge.

Webster's 1828 Dictionary · 1828 4 of 6

Part of speech: verb (v.)

To hang downward; to be pendent; to lean to one side.

Webster's 1828 Dictionary · 1828 5 of 6

Part of speech: verb (v.)

To let hang down; as, to lop the head.

Webster's 1828 Dictionary · 1828 6 of 6

Part of speech: adjective (a.)

Hanging down; as, lop ears; -- used also in compound adjectives; as, lopeared; lopsided.

Noah Webster's American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Structured JSON vendored from sktzofrenic/webster1828 at commit 5a58d9e0191eefaa51affbc1bb1b8bc5782ba6c0. The upstream README identifies the dictionary text as public domain and the project license as MIT.

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