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Edulcorator :: Edulcorator (n.) A contrivance used to supply small quantities of sweetened liquid, water, etc., to any mixture, or to test tubes, etc.; a dropping bottle..

Courtesy :: Courtesy (n.) An act of civility, respect, or reverence, made by women, consisting of a slight depression or dropping of the body, with bending of the knees..

Irrigate :: Irrigate (v. t.) To water; to wet; to moisten with running or dropping water; to bedew.

Duck :: Duck (v. t.) A sudden inclination of the bead or dropping of the person, resembling the motion of a duck in water..

Nod :: Nod (n.) A dropping or bending forward of the upper oart or top of anything.

Fall :: Fall (n.) The act of dropping or tumbling from an erect posture; as, he was walking on ice, and had a fall..

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-)..

Dropping :: Dropping (n.) The action of causing to drop or of letting drop; falling.

Lammergeier :: Lammergeier (n.) A very large vulture (Gypaetus barbatus), which inhabits the mountains of Southern Europe, Asia, and Northern Africa. When full-grown it is nine or ten feet in extent of wings. It is brownish black above, with the under parts and neck rusty yellow; the forehead and crown white; the sides of the head and beard black. It feeds partly on carrion and partly on small animals, which it kills. It has the habit of carrying tortoises and marrow bones to a great height, and dropping them

Monotropa :: Monotropa (n.) A genus of parasitic or saprophytic plants including the Indian pipe and pine sap. The name alludes to the dropping end of the stem.

Dropping :: Dropping (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Dro.

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..

Ecthlipsis :: Ecthlipsis (n.) The dropping out or suppression from a word of a consonant, with or without a vowel..

Machicolation :: Machicolation (n.) An opening between the corbels which support a projecting parapet, or in the floor of a gallery or the roof of a portal, shooting or dropping missiles upen assailants attacking the base of the walls. Also, the construction of such defenses, in general, when of this character. See Illusts. of Battlement and Castle..

Tath :: Tath (n.) Dung, or droppings of cattle..

Drain :: Drain (v. i.) To become emptied of liquor by flowing or dropping; as, let the vessel stand and drain..

Aventurine :: Aventurine (n.) A kind of glass, containing gold-colored spangles. It was produced in the first place by the accidental (par aventure) dropping of some brass filings into a pot of melted glass..

Tath :: Tath (n.) The luxuriant grass growing about the droppings of cattle in a pasture.

Dropping :: Dropping (n.) That which falls in drops; the excrement or dung of animals.

Fall :: Fall (n.) The act of falling; a dropping or descending be the force of gravity; descent; as, a fall from a horse, or from the yard of ship..

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