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

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

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

Drop :: Drop (n.) Act of dropping; sudden fall or descent.

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..

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

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

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..

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

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..

Apheresis :: Apheresis (n.) The dropping of a letter or syllable from the beginning of a word; e. g., cute for acute..

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..

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

Elison :: Elison (n.) The cutting off or suppression of a vowel or syllable, for the sake of meter or euphony; esp., in poetry, the dropping of a final vowel standing before an initial vowel in the following word, when the two words are drawn together..

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.

Ceromancy :: Ceromancy (n.) Divination by dropping melted wax in water.

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..

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..

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..

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

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