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| From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
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Hop \Hop\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Hopped}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Hopping}.] [OE. hoppen to hop, leap, dance, AS. hoppian; akin to Icel. & Sw. hoppa, Dan. hoppe, D. huppelen, G. h[81]pfen.] 1. To move by successive leaps, as toads do; to spring or jump on one foot; to skip, as birds do. [Birds] hopping from spray to spray. --Dryden. 2. To walk lame; to limp; to halt. --Dryden. 3. To dance. --Smollett. | |
| From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
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Hopping \Hop"ping\, n. [See 3rd {Hop}.] A gathering of hops. | |
| From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
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Hopping \Hop"ping\, n. The act of one who, or that which, hops; a jumping, frisking, or dancing. {Hopping Dick} (Zo[94]l.), a thrush of Jamaica ({Merula leucogenys}), resembling the English blackbird in its familiar manners, agreeable song, and dark plumage. | |
