See also:CROP (a word See also:common. in various forms, such as Germ. Kropf, to many See also:Teutonic See also:languages for a swelling, excrescence, See also:round See also:head or See also:top of anything; it appears also in Romanic languages derived from Teutonic, in Fr. as troupe, whence the See also:English " crupper "
; and in Ital. groppo, whence See also:English " See also:group "), the ingluvies, or pouched expansion of a See also:bird's See also:oesophagus, in which the See also:food remains to undergo a preparatory See also:process of digestion before being passed into the true See also:stomach
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From the meaning of " See also:top " or " See also:head," as applied to a plant, See also:herb or See also:flower, comes the See also:common use of the word for the
more particular expressions are the " See also:- WHITE
- WHITE, ANDREW DICKSON (1832– )
- WHITE, GILBERT (1720–1793)
- WHITE, HENRY KIRKE (1785-1806)
- WHITE, HUGH LAWSON (1773-1840)
- WHITE, JOSEPH BLANCO (1775-1841)
- WHITE, RICHARD GRANT (1822-1885)
- WHITE, ROBERT (1645-1704)
- WHITE, SIR GEORGE STUART (1835– )
- WHITE, SIR THOMAS (1492-1567)
- WHITE, SIR WILLIAM ARTHUR (1824--1891)
- WHITE, SIR WILLIAM HENRY (1845– )
- WHITE, THOMAS (1628-1698)
- WHITE, THOMAS (c. 1550-1624)
white-See also:crop," for such See also:grain crops as See also:barley or See also:wheat, which whiten as they grow ripe; and " See also:green-crop " for such as roots or potatoes which do not, and also for those which are cut in a green See also:state, like See also:clover (see See also:AGRICULTURE)
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Other uses, more or less technical, of the word are, in See also:leather-dressing, for the whole untrimmed hide; in See also:mining and See also:geology, for the " outcrop " or See also:appearance at the See also:surface of a vein or stratum and, particularly in See also:tin mining, of the best See also:part of the ore produced after dressing
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A " See also:hunting-crop " is•a See also:short thick stock for a See also:whip, with a small leather See also:loop at one end, to which a thong. may be attached
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From the verb " to crop," i.e. to take off the top of anything, comes " crop" meaning a closely cut head of See also:hair, found in the name " croppy " given to the Roundheads at the See also:- TIME (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the root also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
- TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
- TIME, STANDARD
time of the See also:Great See also:Rebellion, to the Catholics in See also:Ireland in 1688 by the See also:Orangemen, probably with reference to the priests' tonsures, and to the Irish rebels of 1798, who cut their hair short in See also:imitation of the See also:French revolutionaries
.
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