colloped
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colloped (comparative more colloped, superlative most colloped)
- Having ridges or bunches of flesh, like collops.
- 1855, Robert Browning, Childe Roland to the Dark Tower Came, section XIV:
- Alive? he might be dead for aught I know, / With that red gaunt and colloped neck a-strain, / And shut eyes underneath the rusty mane;
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “colloped”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)