Definition of drop

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Drop (n.) A curtain which drops or falls in front of the stage of a theater, etc..

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Drop :: Drop (n.) A curtain which drops or falls in front of the stage of a theater, etc..
Pasteurism :: Pasteurism (n.) A method of treatment, devised by Pasteur, for preventing certain diseases, as hydrophobia, by successive inoculations with an attenuated virus of gradually increasing strength..
Drop :: Drop (n.) A machine for lowering heavy weights, as packages, coal wagons, etc., to a ship's deck..
Dropping :: Dropping (n.) The action of causing to drop or of letting drop; falling.
Guttated :: Guttated (a.) Besprinkled with drops, or droplike spots..
Stal :: Staktometer (n.) A drop measurer; a glass tube tapering to a small orifice at the point, and having a bulb in the middle, used for finding the number of drops in equal quantities of different liquids. See Pipette..
Misle :: Misle (v. i.) To rain in very fine drops, like a thick mist; to mizzle..
Still :: Still (v. t.) To cause to fall by drops.
Andropetalous :: Andropetalous (a.) Produced by the conversion of the stamens into petals, as double flowers, like the garden ranunculus..
Minim :: Minim (n.) The smallest liquid measure, equal to about one drop; the sixtieth part of a fluid drachm..
Hydropathy :: Hydropathy (n.) The water cure; a mode of treating diseases by the copious and frequent use of pure water, both internally and externally..
Dropsical :: Dropsical (a.) Of or pertaining to dropsy.
Rupert''s Drop :: Rupert's drop () A kind of glass drop with a long tail, made by dropping melted glass into water. It is remarkable for bursting into fragments when the surface is scratched or the tail broken; -- so called from Prince Rupert, nephew of Charles I., by whom they were first brought to England. Called also Rupert's ball, and glass tear..
Misly :: Misly (a.) Raining in very small drops.
Pawl :: Pawl (v. t.) To stop with a pawl; to drop the pawls off.
Hydrophobia :: Hydrophobia (n.) The disease caused by a bite form, or inoculation with the saliva of, a rabid creature, of which the chief symptoms are, a sense of dryness and construction in the throat, causing difficulty in deglutition, and a marked heightening of reflex excitability, producing convulsions whenever the patient attempts to swallow, or is disturbed in any way, as by the sight or sound of water; rabies; canine madness..
Gutta :: Gutta (n.) A drop.
Kedge :: Kedge (n.) To move (a vessel) by carrying out a kedge in a boat, dropping it overboard, and hauling the vessel up to it..
Hydragogue :: Hydragogue (a.) Causing a discharge of water; expelling serum effused into any part of the body, as in dropsy..
Antihydropic :: Antihydropic (n.) A remedy for dropsy.
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