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   Drop (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Dropped (?) or Dropt; p. pr. & vb. n. Dropping.] [OE. droppen, AS. dropan, v. i. See Drop, n.]
   
   1. To pour or let fall in drops; to pour in small globules; to distill. “The trees drop balsam.”  Creech.
   
   [1913 Webster] The recording angel, as he wrote it down, dropped a tear upon the word and blotted it out forever. Sterne.
   
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   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.”
   
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   3. To let go; to dismiss; to set aside; to have done with; to discontinue; to forsake; to give up; to omit.
   
   [1913 Webster] They suddenly drop't the pursuit. S. Sharp.
   
   [1913 Webster] That astonishing ease with which fine ladies drop you and pick you up again. Thackeray.
   
   [1913 Webster] The connection had been dropped many years.  Sir W. Scott.
   
   [1913 Webster] Dropping the too rough H in Hell and Heaven. Tennyson.
   
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   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.”
   
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   5. To lower, as a curtain, or the muzzle of a gun, etc.
   
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   6. To send, as a letter; as, “please drop me a line, a letter, word”.
   
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   7. To give birth to; as, “to drop a lamb”.
   
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   8. To cover with drops; to variegate; to bedrop.
   
   [1913 Webster] Show to the sun their waved coats dropped with gold. Milton.
   
   [1913 Webster] To drop a vessel (Naut.), to leave it astern in a race or a chase; to outsail it.
   
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   dropped adj. born; -- used of an animal.  Opposite of  unborn.
   
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