drop

v. i. 1. To fall in drops. [ 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 ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Dropped r Dropt; p. pr. & vb. n. Dropping. ] [ OE. droppen, AS. dropan, v. i. See Drop, n. ] 1. To pour or let fall in drops; to pour in small globules; to distill. “The trees drop balsam.” Creech. [ 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 ]

n. a sheet of material used to cover objects or surfaces while painting a ceiling or wall of a house, so as to protect objects from being marred by drops of paint splashed inadvertantly in the painting process. Originally such drop cloths were made of cloth, but more recently paper or plastic have also commonly been used. [ PJC ]

v. t. to forge with a drop forge; -- of metals. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. a device for making large forgings, in which a heavy hammer drops onto the metalwork to be forged, pressing it into a form or anvil underneath, or between dies.
Syn. -- drop hammer, drop press. [ WordNet 1.5 +PJC ]

n. an act of kicking a football (as for a field goal) in which the football is dropped and kicked as it touches the ground. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. a football kicker who drops the ball and kicks it just as it reaches the ground. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. A little drop; a tear. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]