Frocked and Lop

verb

• Cut off from a whole.
  • usage: "His head was severed from his body"; "The soul discerped from the body"
  • synonyms: discerp, sever
• Cultivate, tend, and cut back the growth of.
  • usage: "dress the plants in the garden"
  • synonyms: snip, clip, crop, trim, dress, prune, cut back

• (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.
• (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.
• (a.) Hanging down; as, lop ears; -- used also in compound adjectives; as, lopeared; lopsided.
• (v.t.) To cut partly off and bend down; as, to lop bushes in a hedge.
• (v.t.) To let hang down; as, to lop the head.