a. [ Gr. 'a`kros summit + L. petere to seek. ] (Bot.) Developing from below towards the apex, or from the circumference towards the center; centripetal; -- said of certain inflorescence. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Gr. 'a`kros extreme + &unr_; sound. ] The use of a picture symbol of an object to represent phonetically the initial sound of the name of the object. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ Gr. 'a`kros topmost + poy`s, podo`s, foot. ] (Zool.) The entire upper surface of the foot. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Gr. 'akro`polis; 'a`kros extreme + po`lis city. ] The upper part, or the citadel, of a Grecian city; especially, the citadel of Athens. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Pertaining to an acropolis. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A second crop or harvest in the same year. Mortimer. [ 1913 Webster ]

. Any crop grown between the rows of another crop or intermediate between two crops in ordinary rotation in point of time. -- Catch"-crop`ping, n.

Radishes . . . are often grown as a catch crop with other vegetables. L. H. Bailey. [Webster 1913 Suppl.]

prop. n. A natural family of insects, in some classifications included in family Moraceae.
Syn. -- family Cecropiaceae. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

. A catch crop planted, esp. in orchards. as a protection to the soil in winter, as well as for the benefit of the soil when plowed under in spring. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

n. [ OE. crop, croppe, craw, top of a plant, harvest, AS. crop, cropp, craw, top, bunch, ear of corn; akin to D. krop craw, G. kropf, Icel. kroppr hump or bunch on the body, body; but cf. also W. cropa, croppa, crop or craw of a bird, Ir. & Gael. sgroban. Cf. Croup, Crupper, Croup. ] 1. The pouchlike enlargement of the gullet of birds, serving as a receptacle for food; the craw. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. The top, end, or highest part of anything, especially of a plant or tree. [ Obs. ] “Crop and root.” Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. That which is cropped, cut, or gathered from a single felld, or of a single kind of grain or fruit, or in a single season; especially, the product of what is planted in the earth; fruit; harvest. [ 1913 Webster ]

Lab'ring the soil, and reaping plenteous crop,
Corn, wine, and oil. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. Grain or other product of the field while standing. [ 1913 Webster ]

5. Anything cut off or gathered. [ 1913 Webster ]

Guiltless of steel, and from the razor free,
It falls a plenteous crop reserved for thee. Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

6. Hair cut close or short, or the act or style of so cutting; as, a convict's crop. [ 1913 Webster ]

7. (Arch.) A projecting ornament in carved stone. Specifically, a finial. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

8. (Mining.) (a) Tin ore prepared for smelting. (b) Outcrop of a vein or seam at the surface. Knight. [ 1913 Webster ]

9. A riding whip with a loop instead of a lash. [ 1913 Webster ]

Neck and crop, altogether; roughly and at once. [ Colloq. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Cropped p. pr. & vb. n. Cropping. ] 1. To cut off the tops or tips of; to bite or pull off; to browse; to pluck; to mow; to reap. [ 1913 Webster ]

I will crop off from the top of his young twigs a tender one. Ezek. xvii. 22. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Fig.: To cut off, as if in harvest. [ 1913 Webster ]

Death . . . .crops the growing boys. Creech. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. To cause to bear a crop; as, to crop a field. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. to cut off an unnecessary portion at the edges; -- of photographs and other two-dimensional images; as, to crop her photograph up to the shoulders. [ PJC ]

v. i. To yield harvest. [ 1913 Webster ]

To crop out. (a) (Geol.) To appear above the surface, as a seam or vein, or inclined bed, as of coal. (b) To come to light; to be manifest; to appear; as, the peculiarities of an author crop out. --
To crop up, to sprout; to spring up; to appear suddenly. “Cares crop up in villas.” Beaconsfield. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A person or animal whose ears are cropped. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Having the ears cropped. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Having a full crop or belly; satiated. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

adj. 1. cut very short; as, her cropped hair. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

2. having an unnecessary portion at the edges cut off; -- of photographs and other two-dimensional images. [ PJC ]

n. 1. One that crops. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A variety of pigeon with a large crop; a pouter. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. (Mech.) A machine for cropping, as for shearing off bolts or rod iron, or for facing cloth. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. A fall on one's head when riding at full speed, as in hunting; hence, a sudden failure or collapse. [ Slang. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Sick from excess in eating or drinking. [ Obs. ] “Cropsick drunkards.” Tate. -- Crop"sick`ness, n. [Obs.] Whitlock. [1913 Webster]

a. Having the tail cropped. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. & i. [ imp. & p. p. -cropped p. pr. & vb. n. -cropping. ] (Agric.) To cultivate by planting simultaneous crops in alternate rows; as, to intercrop an orchard. Also, to use for catch crops at seasons when the ground is not covered by crops of the regular rotation. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

n. (Agric.) A crop grown among or between the rows of another crop; a catch crop. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

n. A small microphone worn around the neck on a supporting string or chain. [ PJC ]

a. [ Macro- + petal. ] (Bot.) Having long or large petals. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A large phagocyte. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

a. [ Macro- + Gr. &unr_; a leaf. ] (Bot.) Having long or large leaves. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Macro- + pinacoid. ] (Crystallog.) One of the two planes of an orthorhombic crystal which are parallel to the vertical and longer lateral (macrodiagonal) axes. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Macro- + -pod. ] (Zool.) Any one of a group of maioid crabs remarkable for the length of their legs; -- called also spider crab. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Having long or large feet, or a long stem. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A macropod. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. (Zool.) Having long legs or feet. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Macro- + prism. ] (Crystallog.) A prism of an orthorhombic crystal between the macropinacoid and the unit prism; the corresponding pyramids are called macropyramids. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. pl. [ NL., fr. Gr. &unr_; long + ptero`n feather, wing. ] (Zool.) A division of birds; the Longipennes. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ See Macropteres. ] (Zool.) Having long wings or fins. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ NL. See Macropod. ] (Zool.) A genus of marsupials including the common kangaroo. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Macro- + pyramid. ] (Crystallog.) See Macroprism. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Micro- + pantograph. ] A kind of pantograph which produces copies microscopically minute. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A parasitic microorganism. -- Mi`cro*par`a*sit"ic a. [Webster 1913 Suppl.]

n. [ Micro- + pegmatite. ] (Min.) A rock showing under the microscope the structure of a graphic granite (pegmatite). -- Mi`cro*peg`ma*tit"ic a. [1913 Webster]

n. [ Micro- + Gr. fwnh` sound, voice: cf. F. microphone. ] (Physics) An instrument for converting sounds into electrical signals, for the purpose of recording or amplifying the sounds. It produces its effects in various ways, as for example by the changes of intensity in an electric current, occasioned by the variations in the contact resistance of conducting bodies, especially of imperfect conductors, under the action of acoustic vibrations. Other forms of microphone may use changes in capacitance or other phenomena to transduce the sounds into electrical signals. The electrical signals produced in a microphone may be transmitted to recording or amplifying equipment through a conducting wire, or by transmission as radio waves. The latter method is popular for use in small mobile microphones used by performers in plays and other entertainment events, at public meetings, and by broadcast personnel. [ 1913 Webster +PJC ]

a. Of or pertaining to a microphone; serving to intensify weak sounds. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

n. [ See Microphone. ] The science which treats of the means of increasing the intensity of low or weak sounds, or of the microphone. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Serving to augment the intensity of weak sounds; microcoustic. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Micro- + photograph. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

1. A microscopically small photograph of a picture, writing, printed page, etc. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. An enlarged representation of a microscopic object, produced by throwing upon a sensitive plate the magnified image of an object formed by a microscope or other suitable combination of lenses. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ A picture of this kind is preferably called a photomicrograph. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The art of making microphotographs. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } n. [ Micro- + Gr. 'ofqalmo`s eye. ] An unnatural smallness of the eyes, occurring as the result of disease or of imperfect development. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Micro- + Gr. fy`llon leaf. ] (Bot.) Small-leaved. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. (Bot.) Pertaining to, or of the nature of, microphytes. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Micro- + Gr. &unr_; a plant: cf. F. microphyte. ] (Bot.) A very minute plant, one of certain unicellular algae, such as the germs of various infectious diseases are believed to be. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Micro- + Gr. &unr_; gate, orifice: cf. F. micropyle. ] (Biol.) (a) An opening in the membranes surrounding the ovum, by which nutrition is assisted and the entrance of the spermatozoa permitted. (b) An opening in the outer coat of a seed, through which the fecundating pollen enters the ovule. -- Mi*crop"y*lar a. [1913 Webster]

a. [ See Necrophagous. ] (Zool.) Eating carrion. -- n. (Zool.) Any species of a tribe (Necrophaga) of beetles which, in the larval state, feed on carrion; a burying beetle. [ 1913 Webster ]