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Word Meanings - AMPUTATION - Book Publishers vocabulary database
The act amputating; esp. the operation of cutting of a limb or projecting part of the body.
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- STRIPPING
The last milk drawn from a cow at a milking. (more info) 1. The act of one who strips. The mutual bows and courtesies . . . are remants of the original prostrations and strippings of the captive. H. Spencer. Never were cows that required - AMPUTATION
The act amputating; esp. the operation of cutting of a limb or projecting part of the body. - LOPPER
One who lops or cuts off. - STRIPPER
One who, or that which, strips; specifically, a machine for stripping cards. - LOPPARD
A tree, the top of which has been lopped off. - DISMEMBERMENT
The act of dismembering, or the state of being dismembered; cutting in piece; m The Castilians would doubtless have resented the dismemberment of the unwieldy body of which they formed the head. Macaulay. - POLLARD
1. A tree having its top cut off at some height above the ground, that may throw out branches. Pennant. 2. A clipped coin; also, a counterfeit. Camden. A fish, the chub. A stag that has cast its antlers. A hornless animal . - LOPPING
A cutting off, as of branches; that which is cut off; leavings. The loppings made from that stock whilst it stood. Burke. - STRIPPET
A small stream. "A little brook or strippet." Holinshed. - DETRUNCATION
The act of lopping or cutting off, as the head from the body. - LOPPY
Somewhat lop; inclined to lop. - REAMPUTATION
The second of two amputations performed upon the same member. - SLOPPINESS
The quality or state of being sloppy; muddiness. - SLOPPY
Wet, so as to spatter easily; wet, as with something slopped over; muddy; plashy; as, a sloppy place, walk, road. - FLOPPY
Having a tendency to flop or flap; as, a floppy hat brim. G. Eliot.