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<chemistry> The running together of the matter of an ore into a mass, when the ore is only heated for calcination.
Origin: Cf. D. Loopen to run. Cf. Loop a mass of iron, Leap.
Of Loop.
<zoology> Looping snail, any species of land snail of the genus Truncatella; so called because it creeps like the measuring worms.
(01 Mar 1998)
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