ppl. a. [UN-1 8.]
1. Of flowers, etc.: Not cut or plucked; not eaten by cattle. Also fig.
1601. Shaks., All’s Well, V. iii. 328. If thou beest yet a fresh vncropped flower, Choose thou thy husband, and Ile pay thy dower.
1610. Fletcher, Faithf. Sheph., I. i. If I keep My Virgin Flower uncropt, pure, chaste, and fair.
1667. Milton, P. L., IV. 731. Where thy abundance wants Partakers, and uncropt falls to the ground.
1825. J. Neal, Bro. Jonathan, III. 396. A bright circle of uncropped herbage was about the root.
1835. E. Jesse, Glean. Nat. Hist., Ser. III. 228. Nature has given them a distaste for several flowers which are … left uncropped.
2. Not cropped or cut; left uncut.
1802. Coleman, Br. Grins, Knt. & Friar (1819), 101. Uncropp’d his ears, undock’d his flowing tail.
1895. Westm. Gaz., 7 June, 3. Nineteen black-and-tans with uncropped ears. Ibid. The first prize … was won by … an uncropped dog.
3. Of land: Not used for cropping.
1857. Miller, Elem. Chem., Org., xiii. § 1. 733. Allowing the land to lie uncropped for a year.
