Drop

Definition of Drop

Pronunciation: drǒp

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.

With minute drops from off the eaves.

- Milton.

As dear to me as are the ruddy drops
That visit my sad heart.

- Shak.

That drop of peace divine.

- Keble.

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.

(Arch.) Same as Gutta.

(Mach.) Whatever is arranged to drop, hang, or fall from an elevated position; also, a contrivance for lowering something

Any medicine the dose of which is measured by drops; as, lavender drops.

(Naut.) The depth of a square sail; - generally applied to the courses only.

Act of dropping; sudden fall or descent.

Ague drop
See under Ague, Black.

Drop by drop
in small successive quantities; in repeated portions.

Drop curtain
d -	See Drop, n., 4. (d). - Burke.

Drop forging
a -	(Mech.) 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.

Drop letter
a letter to be delivered from the same office where posted. - Mollett.

Drop press
(Mech.) a drop hammer; sometimes, a dead-stroke hammer; - also called drop.

Drop scene
d -	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.

v. t.

To pour or let fall in drops; to pour in small globules; to distill.

[imp. & p. p. Dropped or Dropt; p. pr. & vb. n. Dropping.]

The recording angel, as he wrote it down, dropped a tear upon the word and blotted it out forever.

- Sterne.

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.

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.

- S. Sharp.

That astonishing ease with which fine ladies drop you and pick you up again.

- Thackeray.

The connection had been dropped many years.

- Sir W. Scott.

Dropping the too rough H in Hell and Heaven.

- Tennyson.

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.

To lower, as a curtain, or the muzzle of a gun, etc.

To send, as a letter; as, please drop me a line, a letter, word.

To give birth to; as, to drop a lamb.

To cover with drops; to variegate; to bedrop.

Show to the sun their waved coats dropped with gold.

- Milton.

To drop a vessel
(Naut.) to leave it astern in a race or a chase; to outsail it.

v. i.

To fall in drops.

The kindly dew drops from the higher tree,
And wets the little plants that lowly dwell.

- Spenser.

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.

- H. Spencer.

When the sound of dropping nuts is heard.

- Bryant.

To let drops fall; to discharge itself in drops.

The heavens . . . dropped at the presence of God.

- Ps. lxviii. 8.

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.

- Digby.

To come to an end; to cease; to pass out of mind; as, the affair dropped.

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.

- Spectator.

To fall or be depressed; to lower; as, the point of the spear dropped a little.

To fall short of a mark.

Often it drops or overshoots by the disproportion of distance.

- Collier.

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.

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