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verb

Lope v. i. (past & past part. loped; pres. part. loping)

To leap; to dance. (Prov. Eng.) "He that lopes on the ropes."

To move with a leaping or bounding stride, as a horse. (U.S.)

To run with an easy, bounding stride; of people.

Lope past Of Leap. (Obs.) "And, laughing, lope into a tree. Spenser."

noun

Lope n.

A leap; a long step. (Prov. Eng.)

An easy gait, consisting of long running strides or leaps. (U.S.) "The mustang goes rollicking ahead, with the eternal lope,... a mixture of two or three gaits, as easy as the motions of a cradle."

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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Lope" Quotes from Famous Books

... Let us buy a brush and lope; let us go away or off. To have a brush with a woman; to lie with her. To have a brush with a man; to fight with him. The cove cracked the peter and bought a brush; the fellow broke open the trunk, ...

— 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue • Captain Grose et al.

... swift snap that would have put the big brute out of the fight forever. At last, knowing perhaps from past experience the uselessness of punishing or of disputing with this madman that felt no wounds in his rage, the wolf would lope away to cover, followed by a victorious bugle-cry that rang over the wide barren and echoed back from the mountain side. Then the wolf would circle back stealthily and put his nose down into the stag's hoof-marks for a long, deep sniff, ...

— Northern Trails, Book I. • William J. Long

... of his love adventure, and we demand no further poetical justice. In Corneille's art, tragedy had defined itself, and comedy was free to be purely comic; but it is also literary—light, yet solid in structure; easy, yet exact in style. The Suite du Menteur, founded on a comedy by Lope de Vega, has a curious attraction of its own, half-fantastic as it is, and half-realistic; yet it has shared the fate of all continuations, and could not attain the popularity of its predecessor. It lacks gaiety; the liar has sunk into a rascal, and ...

— A History of French Literature - Short Histories of the Literatures of the World: II. • Edward Dowden

... the History of Peru, during the successive Governments of the Conde de Nieva, Lope Garcia de Castro, and Don Francisco ...

— A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels, Vol. 5 • Robert Kerr

... lope upon a spirited sorrel a horseman came jauntily up the row. The erect carriage, the perfect seat, the ease and grace with which his lithe form swayed with every motion of his steed, all present could see at a glance. Mrs. Stannard rose quickly to her ...

— Marion's Faith. • Charles King

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