pos>n. [ From Loup to leap. ] (Veter.) An enzoötic, often fatal, disease of sheep and other domestic animals, of unknown cause. It is characterized by muscular tremors and spasms, followed by more or less complete paralysis. The principal lesion is an inflammation of the membranes covering the brain and spinal cord. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]
n. [ Cf. D. loopen to run. Cf. Loop a mass of iron, Leap. ] (Metal.) The running together of the matter of an ore into a mass, when the ore is only heated for calcination. [ 1913 Webster ]
p. pr. & vb. n. of Loop. [ 1913 Webster ]
Looping snail (Zool.),