Noah Webster's New International Dictionary of the English Language 1. (n.) A flea. 2. (v. t.) To cut off as the top or extreme part of anything; to show/ -- by cutting off the extremities; to cut off, or remove as superfluous parts; as, to lop a tree or its branches. 3. (v. t.) To cut partly off and bend down; as, to lop bushes in a hedge. 4. (n.) That which is lopped from anything, as branches from a tree. 5. (v. i.) To hang downward; to be pendent; to lean to one side. 6. (v. t.) To let hang down; as, to lop the head. 7. (a.) Hanging down; as, lop ears; -- used also in compound adjectives; as, lop-eared; lopsided.
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