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verb Drop v. t. (past & past part. dropped or dropt; pres. part. dropping) 1.To pour or let fall in drops; to pour in small globules; to distill. "The trees drop balsam." "The recording angel, as he wrote it down, dropped a tear upon the word and blotted it out forever." 2.To cause to fall in one portion, or by one motion, like a drop; to let fall; as, to drop a line in fishing; to drop a courtesy. 3.To let go; to dismiss; to set aside; to have done with; to discontinue; to forsake; to give up; to omit. "They suddenly drop't the pursuit." "That astonishing ease with which fine ladies drop you and pick you up again." "The connection had been dropped many years." "Dropping the too rough H in Hell and Heaven." 4.To bestow or communicate by a suggestion; to let fall in an indirect, cautious, or gentle manner; as, to drop hint, a word of counsel, etc. 5.To lower, as a curtain, or the muzzle of a gun, etc. 6.To send, as a letter; as, please drop me a line, a letter, word. 7.To give birth to; as, to drop a lamb. 8.To cover with drops; to variegate; to bedrop. "Show to the sun their waved coats dropped with gold." To drop a vessel (Naut.), to leave it astern in a race or a chase; to outsail it.
Drop v. i. 1.To fall in drops. "The kindly dew drops from the higher tree, And wets the little plants that lowly dwell." 2.To fall, in general, literally or figuratively; as, ripe fruit drops from a tree; wise words drop from the lips. "Mutilations of which the meaning has dropped out of memory." "When the sound of dropping nuts is heard." 3.To let drops fall; to discharge itself in drops. "The heavens... dropped at the presence of God." 4.To fall dead, or to fall in death; as, dropping like flies. "Nothing, says Seneca, so soon reconciles us to the thoughts of our own death, as the prospect of one friend after another dropping round us." 5.To come to an end; to cease; to pass out of mind; as, the affair dropped. 6.To come unexpectedly; with in or into; as, my old friend dropped in a moment. "Takes care to drop in when he thinks you are just seated." 7.To fall or be depressed; to lower; as, the point of the spear dropped a little. 8.To fall short of a mark. (R.) "Often it drops or overshoots by the disproportion of distance." 9.To be deep in extent; to descend perpendicularly; as, her main topsail drops seventeen yards. To drop astern (Naut.), to go astern of another vessel; to be left behind; to slacken the speed of a vessel so as to fall behind and to let another pass a head. To drop down (Naut.), to sail, row, or move down a river, or toward the sea. To drop off, to fall asleep gently; also, to die. (Colloq.)
noun Dropping n. 1.The action of causing to drop or of letting drop; falling. 2.pl. That which falls in drops; the excrement or dung of animals; often used in the plural. Dropping bottle, an instrument used to supply small quantities of a fluid to a test tube or other vessel. Dropping fire, a continued irregular discharge of firearms. Dropping tube, a tube for ejecting any liquid in drops.
Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48
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