ppl. a. Obs. exc. Sc. and north. dial. Forms: 3 lop(e)red, 4 lopird, 5 lopyr(r)de, 6 lopp(e)rit, 6–7 lopperd, 7–8 lappered, 8 lopered, 9 lapoured, lappert, loppert, lappered. loppered. [f. LOPPER v. + -ED1.] Clotted, coagulated, curdled. Chiefly of milk and blood. Also fig.

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a. 1300.  E. E. Psalter cxviii. 70. Lopred als milk es hert of þa.

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1483.  Cath. Angl., 220/2. Lopyrde (A. Lopyrryde). As mylke; concretus. Lopyrde mylke, ivnctata.

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1513.  Douglas, Æneis, III. ix. 64. Thir wretchit mennis flesche, that is his fude, And drinkis worsum, and thair lopperit blude.

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1597.  Lowe, Chirurg. (1634), 381. There remaineth lappered bloud.

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1724.  Ramsay, Tea-t. Misc. (1733), I. 91. And there will be lapper’d milk kebbucks.

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1806.  A. Hunter, Culina (ed. 3), 243. The preparation will become what, in this country, is called lapoured.

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1826.  G. Beattie, John o’ Arnha, 35. The … stains Of lappert blood and human brains.

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c. 1856.  Denham, Tracts (1895), II. 327. When cows … give bloody or lappered or stringy milk.

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