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   Drop , n. [OE. drope, AS. dropa; akin to OS. dropo, D. drop, OHG. tropo, G. tropfen, Icel. dropi, Sw. droppe; and Fr. AS. dreópan to drip, drop; akin to OS. driopan, D. druipen, OHG. triofan, G. triefen, Icel. drjūpa. Cf. Drip, Droop.]
   The quantity of fluid which falls in one small spherical mass; a liquid globule; a minim; hence, also, the smallest easily measured portion of a fluid; a small quantity; as, a drop of water.
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   With minute drops from off the eaves.
   Milton.
   
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   As dear to me as are the ruddy drops
   That visit my sad heart.
    Shak.
   
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   That drop of peace divine.
   Keble.
   
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   That which resembles, or that which hangs like, a liquid drop; as a hanging diamond ornament, an earring, a glass pendant on a chandelier, a sugarplum (sometimes medicated), or a kind of shot or slug.
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   (Arch.) (a) Same as Gutta. (b) Any small pendent ornament.
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   Whatever is arranged to drop, hang, or fall from an elevated position; also, a contrivance for lowering something; as: (a) A door or platform opening downward; a trap door; that part of the gallows on which a culprit stands when he is to be hanged; hence, the gallows itself. (b) A machine for lowering heavy weights, as packages, coal wagons, etc., to a ship's deck. (c) A contrivance for temporarily lowering a gas jet. (d) A curtain which drops or falls in front of the stage of a theater, etc. (e) A drop press or drop hammer. (f) (Mach.) The distance of the axis of a shaft below the base of a hanger.
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   pl. Any medicine the dose of which is measured by drops; as, lavender drops.
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   (Naut.) The depth of a square sail; -- generally applied to the courses only.
   Ham. Nav. Encyc.
   
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   Act of dropping; sudden fall or descent.
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   Ague drop, Black drop. See under Ague, Black. -- Drop by drop, in small successive quantities; in repeated portions. “Made to taste drop by drop more than the bitterness of death.” Burke. -- Drop curtain. See Drop, n., 4. (d). -- Drop forging. (Mech.) (a) A forging made in dies by a drop hammer. (b) The process of making drop forgings. -- Drop hammer (Mech.), a hammer for forging, striking up metal, etc., the weight being raised by a strap or similar device, and then released to drop on the metal resting on an anvil or die. -- Drop kick (Football), a kick given to the ball as it rebounds after having been dropped from the hands. -- Drop lake, a pigment obtained from Brazil wood. Mollett. -- Drop letter, a letter to be delivered from the same office where posted. -- Drop press (Mech.), a drop hammer; sometimes, a dead-stroke hammer; -- also called drop. -- Drop scene, a drop curtain on which a scene is painted. See Drop, n., 4. (d). -- Drop seed. (Bot.) See the List under Glass. -- Drop serene. (Med.) See Amaurosis.
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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.]
   To pour or let fall in drops; to pour in small globules; to distill. “The trees drop balsam.” 
   Creech.
   
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   The recording angel, as he wrote it down, dropped a tear upon the word and blotted it out forever.
   Sterne.
   
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   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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   To let go; to dismiss; to set aside; to have done with; to discontinue; to forsake; to give up; to omit.
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   They suddenly drop't the pursuit.
   S. Sharp.
   
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   That astonishing ease with which fine ladies drop you and pick you up again.
   Thackeray.
   
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   The connection had been dropped many years.
    Sir W. Scott.
   
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   Dropping the too rough H in Hell and Heaven.
   Tennyson.
   
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   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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   To lower, as a curtain, or the muzzle of a gun, etc.
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   To send, as a letter; as, please drop me a line, a letter, word.
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   To give birth to; as, to drop a lamb.
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   To cover with drops; to variegate; to bedrop.
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   Show to the sun their waved coats dropped with gold.
   Milton.
   
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   To drop a vessel (Naut.), to leave it astern in a race or a chase; to outsail it.
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   Drop, v. i.
   To fall in drops.
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   The kindly dew drops from the higher tree,
   And wets the little plants that lowly dwell.
   Spenser.
   
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   To fall, in general, literally or figuratively; as, ripe fruit drops from a tree; wise words drop from the lips.
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   Mutilations of which the meaning has dropped out of memory.
   H. Spencer.
   
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   When the sound of dropping nuts is heard.
   Bryant.
   
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   To let drops fall; to discharge itself in drops.
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   The heavens . . . dropped at the presence of God.
   Ps. lxviii. 8.
   
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   To fall dead, or to fall in death; as, dropping like flies.
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   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.
   Digby.
   
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   To come to an end; to cease; to pass out of mind; as, the affair dropped.
   Pope.
   
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   To come unexpectedly; -- with in or into; as, my old friend dropped in a moment.
   Steele.
   
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   Takes care to drop in when he thinks you are just seated.
   Spectator.
   
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   To fall or be depressed; to lower; as, the point of the spear dropped a little.
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   To fall short of a mark. [R.]
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   Often it drops or overshoots by the disproportion of distance.
   Collier.
   
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   To be deep in extent; to descend perpendicularly; as, her main topsail drops seventeen yards.
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   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.]
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   ‖Gutta , n.; pl. Guttae . [L.]
   A drop.
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   (Arch.) One of a series of ornaments, in the form of a frustum of a cone, attached to the lower part of the triglyphs, and also to the lower faces of the mutules, in the Doric order; -- called also campana, and drop.
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   Gutta serena [L., lit. serene or clear drop] (Med.), amaurosis. -- Guttæ band (Arch.), the listel or band from which the guttæ hang.
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