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looping
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The running together of the matter of an ore into a mass, when the ore is only heated for calcination. [1913 Webster]
looping, p. pr. & vb. n.
of Loop. [1913 Webster]
Looping snail (Zoöl.), any species of land snail of the genus Truncatella ; -- so called because it creeps like the measuring worms.
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