cropplecrown (kroplkroun)

Same as cop ple - crown, 2. croppy (krop'i), n.; pl. croppies (-iz). [ They sent up the hillside three shouts over the demolition of the croppy's dwelling. Banim . 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. (b) One who has had his hair cropped in prison. [Slang.] (ct) A Round head. crop-sickt (krop's ik), 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. Middle ton, Game at Che , 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-sickne t (krop's ik"nes), n. Sickne from repletion of the stomach. Every visitant is become a physician; one that scarce knew any but crop - sickne 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.