With minute drops from off the eaves. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

As dear to me as are the ruddy drops
That visit my sad heart. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

That drop of peace divine. Keble. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. That which resembles, or that which hangs like, a liquid drop; as a hanging diamond ornament, an earring, a glass pendant on a chandelier, a sugarplum (sometimes medicated), or a kind of shot or slug. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. (Arch.) (a) Same as Gutta. (b) Any small pendent ornament. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. Whatever is arranged to drop, hang, or fall from an elevated position; also, a contrivance for lowering something; as: (a) A door or platform opening downward; a trap door; that part of the gallows on which a culprit stands when he is to be hanged; hence, the gallows itself. (b) A machine for lowering heavy weights, as packages, coal wagons, etc., to a ship's deck. (c) A contrivance for temporarily lowering a gas jet. (d) A curtain which drops or falls in front of the stage of a theater, etc. (e) A drop press or drop hammer. (f) (Mach.) The distance of the axis of a shaft below the base of a hanger. [ 1913 Webster ]

5. pl. Any medicine the dose of which is measured by drops; as, lavender drops. [ 1913 Webster ]

6. (Naut.) The depth of a square sail; -- generally applied to the courses only. Ham. Nav. Encyc. [ 1913 Webster ]

7. Act of dropping; sudden fall or descent. [ 1913 Webster ]

Ague drop,
Black drop. See under Ague, Black. --
Drop by drop, in small successive quantities; in repeated portions. “Made to taste drop by drop more than the bitterness of death.” Burke. --
Drop curtain. See Drop, n., 4. (d). --
Drop forging. (Mech.) (a) A forging made in dies by a drop hammer. (b) The process of making drop forgings. --
Drop hammer (Mech.), a hammer for forging, striking up metal, etc., the weight being raised by a strap or similar device, and then released to drop on the metal resting on an anvil or die. --
Drop kick (Football), a kick given to the ball as it rebounds after having been dropped from the hands. --
Drop lake, a pigment obtained from Brazil wood. Mollett. --
Drop letter, a letter to be delivered from the same office where posted. --
Drop press (Mech.), a drop hammer; sometimes, a dead-stroke hammer; -- also called drop. --
Drop scene, a drop curtain on which a scene is painted. See Drop, n., 4. (d). --
Drop seed. (Bot.) See the List under Glass. --
Drop serene. (Med.) See Amaurosis. [ 1913 Webster ]

The recording angel, as he wrote it down, dropped a tear upon the word and blotted it out forever. Sterne. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To cause to fall in one portion, or by one motion, like a drop; to let fall; as, to drop a line in fishing; to drop a courtesy. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. To let go; to dismiss; to set aside; to have done with; to discontinue; to forsake; to give up; to omit. [ 1913 Webster ]

They suddenly drop't the pursuit. S. Sharp. [ 1913 Webster ]

That astonishing ease with which fine ladies drop you and pick you up again. Thackeray. [ 1913 Webster ]

The connection had been dropped many years. Sir W. Scott. [ 1913 Webster ]

Dropping the too rough H in Hell and Heaven. Tennyson. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. To bestow or communicate by a suggestion; to let fall in an indirect, cautious, or gentle manner; as, to drop hint, a word of counsel, etc. [ 1913 Webster ]

5. To lower, as a curtain, or the muzzle of a gun, etc. [ 1913 Webster ]

6. To send, as a letter; as, please drop me a line, a letter, word. [ 1913 Webster ]

7. To give birth to; as, to drop a lamb. [ 1913 Webster ]

8. To cover with drops; to variegate; to bedrop. [ 1913 Webster ]

Show to the sun their waved coats dropped with gold. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

To drop a vessel (Naut.), to leave it astern in a race or a chase; to outsail it. [ 1913 Webster ]

The kindly dew drops from the higher tree,
And wets the little plants that lowly dwell. Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To fall, in general, literally or figuratively; as, ripe fruit drops from a tree; wise words drop from the lips. [ 1913 Webster ]

Mutilations of which the meaning has dropped out of memory. H. Spencer. [ 1913 Webster ]

When the sound of dropping nuts is heard. Bryant. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. To let drops fall; to discharge itself in drops. [ 1913 Webster ]

The heavens . . . dropped at the presence of God. Ps. lxviii. 8. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. To fall dead, or to fall in death; as, dropping like flies. [ 1913 Webster ]

Nothing, says Seneca, so soon reconciles us to the thoughts of our own death, as the prospect of one friend after another dropping round us. Digby. [ 1913 Webster ]

5. To come to an end; to cease; to pass out of mind; as, the affair dropped. Pope. [ 1913 Webster ]

6. To come unexpectedly; -- with in or into; as, my old friend dropped in a moment. Steele. [ 1913 Webster ]

Takes care to drop in when he thinks you are just seated. Spectator. [ 1913 Webster ]

7. To fall or be depressed; to lower; as, the point of the spear dropped a little. [ 1913 Webster ]

8. To fall short of a mark. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Often it drops or overshoots by the disproportion of distance. Collier. [ 1913 Webster ]

9. To be deep in extent; to descend perpendicularly; as, her main topsail drops seventeen yards. [ 1913 Webster ]

To drop astern (Naut.), to go astern of another vessel; to be left behind; to slacken the speed of a vessel so as to fall behind and to let another pass a head. --
To drop down (Naut.), to sail, row, or move down a river, or toward the sea. --
To drop off, to fall asleep gently; also, to die. [ Colloq. ] [ 1913 Webster ]