Definition of drop

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Drop (n.) 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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Chondropterygii :: Chondropterygii (n. pl.) A group of fishes, characterized by cartilaginous fins and skeleton. It includes both ganoids (sturgeons, etc.) and selachians (sharks), but is now often restricted to the latter..
Drop :: Drop (n.) Any small pendent ornament.
Oleograph :: Oleograph (n.) The form or figure assumed by a drop of oil when placed upon water or some other liquid with which it does not mix.
Duck :: Duck (v. t.) A sudden inclination of the bead or dropping of the person, resembling the motion of a duck in water..
Ganch :: Ganch (n.) To drop from a high place upon sharp stakes or hooks, as the Turks dropped malefactors, by way of punishment..
Drop :: Drop (v. i.) To fall dead, or to fall in death..
Dripping :: Dripping (n.) That which falls in drops, as fat from meat in roasting..
Clubhaul :: Clubhaul (v. t.) To put on the other tack by dropping the lee anchor as soon as the wind is out of the sails (which brings the vessel's head to the wind), and by cutting the cable as soon as she pays off on the other tack. Clubhauling is attempted only in an exigency..
Guttiform :: Guttiform (a.) Drop-shaped, as a spot of color..
Rainbow :: Rainbow (n.) A bow or arch exhibiting, in concentric bands, the several colors of the spectrum, and formed in the part of the hemisphere opposite to the sun by the refraction and reflection of the sun's rays in drops of falling rain..
Sprinted :: Sprinkling (n.) Hence, a moderate number or quantity distributed like drops..
Sprinkle :: Sprinkle (v. i.) To scatter on; to disperse something over in small drops or particles; to besprinkle; as, to sprinkle the earth with water; to sprinkle a floor with sand..
Sundial :: Sundew (n.) Any plant of the genus Drosera, low bog plants whose leaves are beset with pediceled glands which secrete a viscid fluid that glitters like dewdrops and attracts and detains insects. After an insect is caught, the glands curve inward like tentacles and the leaf digests it. Called also lustwort..
Hydrophanous :: Hydrophanous (a.) Made transparent by immersion in water.
Eavedrop :: Eavedrop (n.) A drop from the eaves; eavesdrop.
Mistle :: Mistle (v. i.) To fall in very fine drops, as rain..
Hydrophytology :: Hydrophytology (n.) The branch of botany which treats of water plants.
Trocar :: Trocar (n.) A stylet, usually with a triangular point, used for exploring tissues or for inserting drainage tubes, as in dropsy..
Water Doctor :: Water doctor () A physician who treats diseases with water; an hydropathist.
Drop :: Drop (n.) To send, as a letter; as, please drop me a line, a letter, word..
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