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

Stalagmitic :: Stalagmite (n.) A deposit more or less resembling an inverted stalactite, formed by calcareous water dropping on the floors of caverns; hence, a similar deposit of other material..

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

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

Eavesdropping :: Eavesdropping (n.) The habit of lurking about dwelling houses, and other places where persons meet fro private intercourse, secretly listening to what is said, and then tattling it abroad. The offense is indictable at common law..

Aurora :: Aurora (n.) The Roman personification of the dawn of day; the goddess of the morning. The poets represented her a rising out of the ocean, in a chariot, with rosy fingers dropping gentle dew..

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..

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

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

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

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..

Tossing :: Tossing (n.) A process for refining tin by dropping it through the air while melted.

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

Caducous :: Caducous () Dropping off or disappearing early, as the calyx of a poppy, or the gills of a tadpole..

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.

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-)..

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

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..

Aphetic :: Aphetic (a.) Shortened by dropping a letter or a syllable from the beginning of a word; as, an aphetic word or form..

Rise :: Rise (v.) To be lifted, or to admit of being lifted, from the imposing stone without dropping any of the type; -- said of a form..

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