| 释义 |
lopped, ppl. a.|lɒpt|
[f. lop v.1 + -ed1.]
In senses of the verb. Bot. and Zool.: Truncate.
1570Levins Manip. 49/27 Lopped, tonsus. 1611Shakes. Cymb. v. v. 454 The lofty Cedar, Royall Cymbeline, Personates thee: And thy lopt Branches point Thy two Sonnes forth. 1645Waller Of the Queen 26 By cutting hope, like a lopt limbe, away. 1721Ramsay Marquis of Bowmont 40 His lop'd-off locks. 1787tr. Linnæus' Fam. Plants I. 3 Headlet flat, with the side declining to the nectary lop'd, perforated. Ibid., Seeds very numerous, oblong, lop'd. 1791Cowper Odyss. x. 533 So tumble his lopp'd head into the dust. 1812Barclay, 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. 1847Hardy in Proc. Berw. Nat. Club II. No. v. 234 Labial palpi filiform, or the last joint but slightly enlarged and lopped. 1867Trollope Chron. Barset II. lxxxii. 365 A hope that the lopped tree may yet become green again. 1872Geo. Eliot Middlem. lxxiii, She needed time to get used to her maimed consciousness, her poor lopped life. 1898A. Balfour To Arms xxi. 241 He might have had the unenviable experience of a lopped-off head.
b. Her. (See quots.)
1828–40Berry Encycl. Her. I, Lopped, or Snagged, differs from couping, which does not show the thickness, whereas, this is cut off to sight. 1884Burke Gen. Armory p. xli, Lopped, or snagged, cut so as to show the thickness. |