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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Gutta \Gut"ta\, n.; pl. Guttae. [L.] 1. A drop. [1913 Webster] 2. (Arch.) One of a series of ornaments, in the form of a frustum of a cone, attached to the lower part of the triglyphs, and also to the lower faces of the mutules, in the Doric order; -- called also campana, and drop. [1913 Webster] Gutta serena [L., lit. serene or clear drop] (Med.), amaurosis. Gutt[ae] band (Arch.), the listel or band from which the gutt[ae] hang. [1913 Webster] .
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Drop \Drop\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Droppedor 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] .
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Drop \Drop\ (dr[o^]p), n. [OE. drope, AS. dropa; akin to OS. dropo, D. drop, OHG. tropo, G. tropfen, Icel. dropi, Sw. droppe; and Fr. AS. dre['o]pan to drip, drop; akin to OS. driopan, D. druipen, OHG. triofan, G. triefen, Icel. drj[=u]pa. Cf. Drip, Droop.] 1. The quantity of fluid which falls in one small spherical mass; a liquid globule; a minim; hence, also, the smallest easily measured portion of a fluid; a small quantity; as, a drop of water. [1913 Webster] 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] .
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Drop \Drop\, v. i.
1. To fall in drops.
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The kindly dew drops from the higher tree,
And wets the little plants that lowly dwell.
--Spenser.
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2. To fall, in general, literally or figuratively; as, ripe
fruit drops from a tree; wise words drop from the lips.
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Mutilations of which the meaning has dropped out of
memory. --H. Spencer.
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When the sound of dropping nuts is heard. --Bryant.
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3. To let drops fall; to discharge itself in drops.
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The heavens . . . dropped at the presence of God.
--Ps. lxviii.
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4. To fall dead, or to fall in death; as, dropping like
flies.
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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.
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5. To come to an end; to cease; to pass out of mind; as, the
affair dropped. --Pope.
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6. To come unexpectedly; -- with in or into; as, my old
friend dropped in a moment. --Steele.
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Takes care to drop in when he thinks you are just
seated. --Spectator.
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7. To fall or be depressed; to lower; as, the point of the
spear dropped a little.
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8. To fall short of a mark. [R.]
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Often it drops or overshoots by the disproportion of
distance. --Collier.
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9. To be deep in extent; to descend perpendicularly; as, her
main topsail drops seventeen yards.
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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.]
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