Loop"ing, 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.
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Loop"ing, p. pr. & vb. n.
of Loop.
Looping snail Zool., any species of land snail of the genus Truncatella; -- so called because it creeps like the measuring worms.
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