Lop

(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.

录入:特丽萨

• He saw that pigeon-fanciers and stock-breeders deve lop certain types by preserving those variations that have the desired characteristics. 李贝. 西洋科学史.
• Defeated in that, his enemies resorted to a more devious method; they began to lop away his friends. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• Their desire is for a full and expressive life and they do not relish a lop-sided and lamed humanity. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
• The coachman he not likin' the job, Set off at full gal-lop, But Dick put a couple of balls in his nob, And perwailed on him to stop. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外传.
• The ragged nests, so long deserted by the rooks, were gone; and the trees were lopped and topped out of their remembered shapes. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 大卫·科波菲尔.
• Twenty-two friends of high public mark, twenty-one living and one dead, it had lopped the heads off, in one morning, in as many minutes. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 双城记.
• Yet a few hours, and Front-de-Boeuf is with his fathers--a powerful limb lopped off Prince John's enterprise. 沃尔特·司各特. 艾凡赫.
• She needed time to get used to her maimed consciousness, her poor lopped life, before she could walk steadily to the place allotted her. 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.
• The mere act of cutting and lopping at hazard appears to please him. 威尔基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.

录入:内德