Definition of drop

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Drop (n.) A machine for lowering heavy weights, as packages, coal wagons, etc., to a ship's deck..

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Stilling :: Stilliform (a.) Having the form of a drop.
Stitch :: Stitch (v. i.) A single turn of the thread round a needle in knitting; a link, or loop, of yarn; as, to let down, or drop, a stitch; to take up a stitch..
Trocar :: Trocar (n.) A stylet, usually with a triangular point, used for exploring tissues or for inserting drainage tubes, as in dropsy..
Spray :: Spray (v. t.) Water flying in small drops or particles, as by the force of wind, or the dashing of waves, or from a waterfall, and the like..
Strangury :: Strangury (n.) A painful discharge of urine, drop by drop, produced by spasmodic muscular contraction..
Droplight :: Droplight (n.) An apparatus for bringing artificial light down from a chandelier nearer to a table or desk; a pendant.
Enhydrous :: Enhydrous (a.) Having water within; containing fluid drops; -- said of certain crystals.
Hydrophyte :: Hydrophyte (n.) An aquatic plant; an alga.
Plump :: Plump (a.) To drop or fall suddenly or heavily, all at once..
Eavedrop :: Eavedrop (n.) A drop from the eaves; eavesdrop.
Hydrocephalic :: Hydrocephalic (a.) Relating to, or connected with, hydrocephalus, or dropsy of the brain..
Sub- :: Sub- () A prefix signifying under, below, beneath, and hence often, in an inferior position or degree, in an imperfect or partial state, as in subscribe, substruct, subserve, subject, subordinate, subacid, subastringent, subgranular, suborn. Sub- in Latin compounds often becomes sum- before m, sur before r, and regularly becomes suc-, suf-, sug-, and sup- before c, f, g, and p respectively. Before c, p, and t it sometimes takes form sus- (by the dropping of b from a collateral form, subs-)..
Drop :: Drop (n.) To let go; to dismiss; to set aside; to have done with; to discontinue; to forsake; to give up; to omit.
Pack :: Pack (n.) An envelope, or wrapping, of sheets used in hydropathic practice, called dry pack, wet pack, cold pack, etc., according to the method of treatment..
Ecthlipsis :: Ecthlipsis (n.) The dropping out or suppression from a word of a consonant, with or without a vowel..
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..
Dripping :: Dripping (n.) That which falls in drops, as fat from meat in roasting..
Vetiver :: Vetiver (n.) An East Indian grass (Andropogon muricatus); also, its fragrant roots which are much used for making mats and screens. Also called kuskus, and khuskhus..
Shed :: Shed (v. i.) To fall in drops; to pour.
Water Cure :: Water cure () Hydropathy.
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