crop 
And in the erup of that tre on night 
A litill child. hewn full right, 
Lapped all in clathes clene. 
Holy Rood (E. E. T. S.), p. 69. 
2. Corn and other cultivated plants grown and 
garnered; the produce of the ground; harvest: 
as, the crops are 10 per cent, larger than last 
year; in a more restricted sense, that which is 
cut, gathered, or garnered from a single field, 
or of a particular kind of grain or fruit, or in a 
single season: as, the wheat-crop; the potato- 
orop. 
Croppe of corne yn a yere, annona. 
Prompt. Pare., p. 104. 
For plenty of crop and corne to Ceres. 
Puttenham, Arte of Eng. Poesie, p. 23. 
3. Corn and other cultivated plants while grow- 
ing : as, a standing crop; the crop in the ground ; 
the crops are all backward this year. 
Enriching shortly, with his springing Crop, 
The Uround with green, the Husbandman with hope. 
Sylvester, tr. of Du Bartas's Weeks, i. 3. 
They turned in their stubble to sow another croppe at 
wheate in the same place. Coryat, Crudities, I. 151. 
A full car'd crop and thriving, rank and proud ! 
Prepost'rous man first sow'd, and then he plough'd. 
Quarles, Emblems, i. 2. 
But let the good old crop adorn 
The hills our fathers trod. 
Whittier, The Coni-Song. 
4. The first stomach of a fowl; the craw: thein- 
gluvies : sometimes used humorously of the hu- 
man maw or stomach. 
In birds there is no mastication . . . of the meat; . . . 
but ... it is immediately swallowed into the crop or craw. 
The knave crommeth is crop 
Er the cok crawe. 
Political Songs (ed. Wright), p. 238. 
The Cock was of a larger egg 
Than modern poultry drop, 
Stept forward on a firmer leg, 
And cramm'd a plumper crop. 
Tennyson, Will Waterproof. 
5. In insects, an anterior dilatation of the ali- 
mentary canal, succeeded by the proventricu- 
lus. See cut under lilattidiK. 6. Anything 
gathered when ready or in season : as, the ice- 
crop. 
This bush of yellow beard, this length of hair, . . . 
Guiltless of steel and from the razor free. 
Shall fall a plenteous crop reserved for thee. 
Dryden, Pal. and Arc., iii. 354. 
7. The act of cutting or clipping off, as hair : 
as, he has given you a pretty close crop. 8. 
An ear-mark. 9. The hair of the head when 
thick and short, forming a sort of cap. 
Her hair . . . she wore it in a crop curled in five dis- 
tinct rows. Dickens, Nicholas Nickleby, ix. 
10. A wig of rough, short hair. 11. In min- 
ing, the outcrop of a lode. See outcrop. [Cor- 
dilleran region.] 12. In tunning, an entire un- 
trimmed hide, struck for sole-leather. Also 
called crop-hide. 13. A fixed weight in differ- 
ent localities for sugar, tobacco, and other sta- 
ples. A crop hogshead of tobacco is from 1,000 
to 1,300 pounds net. 14. A kind of whip used 
by horsemen in the hunting-field, consisting of a 
short, stout, and straight staff having a crooked 
handle, and a loop of leather at the end. it is 
useful in opening gates, and differs from the common whip 
in the absence of a lash. Also called hunting-crop. 
Instead of the gold-and-ivory-handled cutting whip 
which he had been led to expect, she carried a light but 
sturdy crop. Harper's Mag., LXXVI. 207. 
Away-going crops. See away-yoiny. Course Of crops. 
See omrsei. Crop and root, the whole of anything. 
Croppe and rote of gentilesse. 
Chaucer, Complaint of Venus, 1. 8 (in some MSS.). 
Granule mercy, ihesu, crop & roote 
Of al frenschip, for thou neuere failis. 
Political Poems, etc. (ed. Furiiivall), p. 202. 
Green crop, a crop that is cut or gathered in its growing 
or unripe state : often used in contradistinction to grain- 
crop, root-crop, or grass-crop, and sometimes including 
turnips, potatoes, etc. Neck and crop, altogether ; at 
once ; bag and baggage ; in a summary way. 
I'd have had you trundled neck and crop out of this ware- 
house long ago if I'd thought you capable of pouching so 
much as a tobacconist's token. Sola, The Ship-Chaudler. 
White crop, a name given by agriculturists to grain-crops, 
as wheat, barley, oats, and rye, which whiten or lose their 
green color as they ripen : in contradistinction to green 
crop, root-crop, etc. Winter crop, a crop which will 
bear the winter, or which may be converted into fodder 
during the winter. 
crop (krop), v. ; pret. and pp. cropped, some- 
times cropt, ppr. rropplna. [< ME. croppnt, 
cut, pluck and eat, as birds do grain (= D. /,T/'- 
pen, cram (birds), = LG. kriippen, cut, crop, = 
G. kropfen, crop, = Icel. kroppa, cut, crop), lit. 
take off the crop (top, head, ear) of a plant ; < 
crop, n., 1. In the third sense, < crop, n., 2, 3.] 
I. trans. 1. To take off the top or head of (a 
1300 
plant); cut off the ends of; eat off; pull off; 
pluck ; mow ; reap : as, to crop flowers, trees, 
or grass ; to crop fruit from the tree. 
Ther [where] it growed croppe a plante of peche. 
Palladius, Husbondrie (E. E. T. S.), p. 76. 
The first leaves are cropped off to feede the silke wormes 
withall. Coryat, Crudities, I. 151. 
A fairer rose did never bloom 
Than now lies cropp'd on Yarrow. 
The Dome Hem of Yarrow (Child's Ballads, III. 68). 
And Gascon lasses, from their jetty braids, 
Crop half, to buy a ribbon for the rest. 
Bryant, Spring in Town. 
While force our youth, like fruits, untimely crops. 
Sir J. Denham, Cato Major of Old Age, iv. 
2. To cut off a part of (the ear of an animal) as 
a mark of identification, or for other reasons. 
3. To cause to bear a crop ; plant or fill with 
crops; raise crops on: as, to crop a field. 
Where in the world besides [in Connaught] could there 
be found a field of not two acres, cropped in precise equal- 
ity with oats and weeds, and a cow, at mid-day, standing 
in the midst? Quarterly Rev., CXXVII. 557. 
II. intrans. 1. To sprout; appear in part, 
and apparently by accident or undesignedly, 
from beneath the surface or otherwise from 
concealment; become partly visible or obvi- 
ous: with out, sometimes up or forth. Specifi- 
cally (a) In mining, to appear at the surface : said of a 
vein or mass of ore when it shows itself distinctly at the 
surface of the ground ; also, but less frequently, in geol- 
ogy, with regard to stratified rocks in general. 
Some of the islets are composed entirely of the sedimen- 
tary, others of the trappean rocks generally, however, 
with the sandstones cropping out on the southern shores. 
Darrnn, Geol. Observations, ii. 425. 
(b) To appear incidentally and undesignedly ; come to light 
or to the surface ; as, his peculiarities crop out in his work ; 
the truth cropped out in spite of him. 
Any wild trait unexpectedly cropping out in any of the 
domestic animals pleased him [Thoreau] immensely. 
J. Burroughs, Essays from The Critic, p. 15. 
All such outrages crop forth 
I' the course of nature. 
Browning, Ring and Book, I. 56. 
2f. To yield harvest. Shale., A. and C., ii. 2. 
crope 1 . An obsolete or dialectal preterit and 
past participle of creep. 
Another witness crope out against the Lord Stafford. 
Roger North, Examen (1740), p. 217. 
crope 2 t (krop), n. [< OF. crope, croupe, the top 
of a hill, also the rump or croup: see crop, 
croup?.] The top of anything ; a finial. 
crop-ear (krop'er), n. 1. A horse with cropped 
ears. 
What horse? a roan, a crop-ear, is it not? 
Shak., 1 Hen. IV., ii. 3. 
I'll lay a thousand pounds upon my crop-ear. 
Beau, and J.7., Scornful Lady, v. 3. 
2. A person whose ears have been cropped, 
crop-eared (krop'erd), . Having the ears 
cropped. 
A crnp-ear'd scrivener this. 
B. Jonson, Masques. 
cropent. Obsolete past participle of creep. 
cropert, ' An obsolete form of crupper. Chau- 
cer. 
crop-fish (krop'fish), . A local English name 
of fishes of the genus Layoceplialus. 
cropful, crop-full (krop'ful), a. Having a full 
crop or belly; satiated. 
Then lies him down the Inhbar fiend, 
And, stretch'd out all the chimney's length, 
Basks at the fire his hairy strength ; 
Ajid crop-full out of doors he flings, 
Ere the first cock his matin rings. 
.1/17(0)!, L' Allegro, 1. 113. 
crop-hide (krop'hld), . Same as crop, 12. 
crop-Ore (krop'or), n. In mining, tin ore of the 
first quality, after it is dressed or cleansed for 
smelting. Pryce. [Cornwall.] 
cropped (kropt), p. a. [Pp. of crop, i>.] Cut 
off snort, as the hair. Specifically () In bookbind- 
ing, having the margins unnecessarily cut down in binding. 
When cut into the print, the book is said to bleed, (b) In 
rope-making, stripped, as hemp, of its short fibers or tow 
by the smaller heckles, to render it suitable for use in fine 
work. Also spelled cropt. 
Cropper 1 (krop'er), n. [< crop, n.,4, 4- -er 1 .] A 
breed of pigeons with a large crop. See pouter. 
There be tame and wild pigeons ; and of tame there be 
croppers, carriers, runts. 1. Walton, Complete Angler. 
cropper 2 (krop'er), . [< crop, v., + -erl.] 1. 
A machine for facing cloth. 2. A powerful 
hand-tool for cutting off bolts or iron rods. 3. 
A plant which furnishes a crop : qualified by 
Urge or xnmll, henry or light, etc. 
Tobacco, N. macrophylla paudurata, ... a heavy crop- 
I" r, :md especially adapted for the manufacture of good 
snulf. Spon, Encyc. Manuf., p. l:i^. r >. 
4. One who raises a crop or crops on shares ; 
one who cultivates laud for its owner in consid- 
eration of part of the crop. 
croquette 
cropper^ (krop'er), it. [Origin uncertain.] A 
fail, as from horseback; especially, a fall in 
which the rider is thrown neck and crop over 
the horse's head : hence, failure in an under- 
taking. [Slang.] 
This is the man that charged up to my assistance when 
I was dismounted among the guns. . . . What a cropper I 
went down, didn't 1? 11. Kingsley, Ravenshoe, Ivii. 
cropping (krop'ing), 11. [Verbal n. of crop, v.~\ 
1 . The act of cutting off. 
It is not a cropping, a pilling, a retarding of the growth 
of the vine that is threatened, but a devouring, though but 
from little foxes. Donne, Sermons, x. 
2. The raising or gathering of crops. 3. In 
geo I. , the rising of rock strata to the surface of 
the ground. See outcrop. 
cropple-crown (krop'l-kroun), n. Same as cop- 
ple-crown, 2. 
croppy (krop'i), n. ; pi. cropjries (-iz). [< crop, 
cut, -f dim. -y 2 .] 1. A person whose ears have 
been cut off, as formerly for treason. [Eng.] 
2. One whose hair is cropped, or cut close to 
the head. Specifically (a) In former use, an Irish 
rebel. [Eng.] 
They sent up the hillside three shouts over the demoli- 
tion of the croppy's dwelling. Baniin. 
Wearing the hair short and without powder was, at this 
time, considered a mark of French principles. Hair so 
worn was called a "crop." Hence Lord Melbourne's 
phrase "crop imitating wig" (Poetry of Antijacobin. p. 
41). This is the origin of croppies as applied to the Irish 
rebels of 1798. Sir G. C. Lewis, Letters, p. 410. 
(6) One who has had his hair cropped in prison. [Slang.] 
(et) A Roundhead. 
crop-sickt (krop'sik), a. Sick or indisposed 
from a surcharged stomach ; sick from a surfeit 
in eating or drinking ; overgorged. 
My merit doth begin to be crop-sick 
For want of other titles. 
Middteton, Game at Chess, iii. 1. 
Strange odds ! when crop-sick drunkards must engage 
A hungry foe, and armed with sober rage. 
Tate, tr. of Juvenal's Satires, xv. 
crop-sicknesst (krop'sik"nes), n. Sicknessfrom 
repletion of the stomach. 
Every visitant is become a physician ; one that scarce 
knew any but crop-sickness cryeth, No such apothecary's 
shop as the sack-shop ! 
Whitlock, Manners of English People (1656), p. 126. 
cropweed (krop'wed), n. The knapweed, Cen- 
taurea nigra. 
croquet (kro-ka'), . [Appar. < F. as if "cro- 
quet, var. of crochet, a hook, turn, bend, dim. of 
croc, a hook, crook (see crotchet, crochet, crook), 
with allusion to the hoops or arches, or to the 
mallets.] 1. A game played on a lawn or a 
prepared piece of ground, with mallets, balls, 
pegs or posts, 
and a number 
of iron hoops 
or arches ar- 
ranged in a cer- 
tain order. The 
order differs, but 
that most com- 
monly employed in 
the United States 
is shown in the il- 
lustration. It can 
be played by two 
or more, and, in 
the case of several 
playing, they may 
either be divided 
into two parties or 
ft 
~y ^ into two parties or 
fj ^ play each for him- 
*' self. The object of 
bje 
the players is, 
starting from one 
end of the field, to 
drive the balls be- 
longing to their 
own side through 
the hoops to the 
peg at the opposite 
end of the field, 
and then back 
Plan of Croquet-ground. again to the first 
peg, or winning- 
peg. The side doing this first wins the game. In playing, 
i-;u-h person in turn strikes his own ball once ; if his ball 
passes through a wicket, or hits the turning-peg, he is 
allowed another stroke; and if he hits one of the other 
balls, he may drive that jnvay by placing his own against 
it and striking his own, after which he has another stroke. 
2. In the game of croquet, the act of a player, 
upon hitting a second ball with his own, of 
driving that one away by a stroke on his own, 
which he holds firmly with his foot, after he 
has placed the two in contact. 
croquet (kro-ka'), r. I. [< eritijiit't. //.] In the 
game of croquet, to drive off by a croquet, as 
an adversary's ball. Sec- cm</i-t, n., 2. 
croquette (k'ro-kef), . [F., < crm/itct, a crisp 
cake, < oroquw, crunch.] A mass of finely 
minced and seasoned meat or lish (or rice, po- 
