Verb
cultivate, tend, and cut back the growth of; "dress the plants in the garden"

Verb
cut off from a whole; "His head was severed from his body"; "The soul discerped from the body"

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n.
A flea.

v. t.
To cut off as the top or extreme part of anything; to sho/ -- by cutting off the extremities; to cut off, or remove as superfluous parts; as, to lop a tree or its branches.

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

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

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

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

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

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Lop

Lop , n. [AS. loppe.] A flea.[Obs.] Cleveland.

Lop

Lop , v. t. [imp. & p. p. Lopped ; p. pr. & vb. n. Lopping .] [Prov. G. luppen, lubben,to cut, geld, or OD. luppen, D. lubben.] 1. To cut off as the top or extreme part of anything; to sho -- by cutting off the extremities; to cut off, or remove as superfluous parts; as, to lop a tree or its branches. "With branches lopped, in wood or mountain felled." Milton.

Expunge the whole, or lop the excrescent parts.

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

Lop

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

Lop

Lop, v. i. To hang downward; to be pendent; to lean to one side.

Lop

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

Lop

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

A flea.

To cut off as the top or extreme part of anything; to sho -- by cutting off the extremities; to cut off, or remove as superfluous parts; as, to lop a tree or its branches.

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

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

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

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