Lopped

ppl. a. [f. LOP v.¹ + -ED¹.] In senses of the verb. Bot. and Zool.: Truncate.

1570.  Levins, Manip., 49/27. Lopped, tonsus.

1611.  Shaks., Cymb., V. v. 454. The lofty Cedar, Royall Cymbeline, Personates thee: And thy lopt Branches point Thy two Sonnes forth.

1645.  Waller, Of the Queen, 26. By cutting hope, like a lopt limbe, away.

1721.  Ramsay, Marquis of Bowmont, 40. His lop’d-off locks.

1787.  trans. Linnæus’ Fam. Plants, I. 3. Headlet flat, with the side declining to the nectary lop’d, perforated. Ibid. Seeds very numerous, oblong, lop’d.

1791.  Cowper, Odyss., X. 533. So tumble his lopp’d head into the dust.

1812.  Barclay, Lopped, in botany, appearing as if cut off with a pair of scissars; the leaves of the great bindweed are lopped at the base; the petals of the periwinkle are lopped at the end.

1847.  Hardy, in Proc. Berw. Nat. Club, II. No. v. 234. Labial palpi filiform, or the last joint but slightly enlarged and lopped.

1867.  Trollope, Chron. Barset, II. lxxxii. 365. A hope that the lopped tree may yet become green again.

1872.  Geo. Eliot, Middlem., lxxiii. She needed time to get used to her maimed consciousness, her poor lopped life.

1898.  A. Balfour, To Arms! xxi. 402. He might have had the unenviable experience of a lopped-off head or a compressed windpipe.

  b.  Her. (See quots.)

1828–40.  Berry, Encycl. Her., I. Lopped, or Snagged, differs from couping, which does not show the thickness, whereas, this is cut off to sight.

1884.  Burke, Gen. Armory, p. xli. Lopped, or snagged, cut so as to show the thickness.