drops

DROPS, verb transitive [G.] 1. To pour or let fall in small portions or globules, as a fluid; to distill. The heavens shall drop down dew. Deuteronomy 33:1. 2. To let fall as any substance; as, to drop the anchor; to drop a stone. 3. To let go; to dismiss; to lay aside; to quit; to leave; to permit to subside; as, to drop an affair; to drop a controversy; to drop a pursuit. 4. To utter slightly, briefly or casually; as, to drop a word in favor of a friend. 5. To insert indirectly, incidentally, or by way of digression; as, to drop a word of instruction in a letter 6. To lay aside; to dismiss from possession; as, to drop these frail bodies. 7. To leave; as, to drop a letter at the post office. 8. To set down and leave; as, the coach dropped a passenger at the inn. 9. To quit; to suffer to cease; as, to drop an acquaintance. 10. To let go; to dismiss from association; as, to drop a companion. 11. To suffer to end or come to nothing; as, to drop a fashion. 12. To bedrop; to speckle; to variegate, as if by sprinkling with drops; as a coat dropped with gold. 13. To lower; as, to drop the muzzle of a gun. DROP, verb intransitive 1. To distill; to fall in small portions, globules or drops as a liquid. Water drops from the clouds or from the eaves. 2. To let drops fall; to discharge itself in drops The heavens dropped at the presence of God. Psalms 68:1. 3. To fall; to descend suddenly or abruptly. 4. To fall spontaneously; as, ripe fruit drops from a tree. 5. To die, or to die suddenly. We see one friend after another dropping round us. They drop into the grave. 6. To come to an end; to cease; to be neglected and come to nothing; as, the affair dropped. 7. To come unexpectedly; with in or into; as, my old friend dropped in, a moment. 8. To fall short of a mark. [Not usual.] Often it drops or overshoots. 9. To fall lower; as, the point of the spear dropped a little. 10. To be deep in extent. Her main top-sail drops seventeen yards. To drop astern, in seamens language, is to pass or move towards the stern; to move back; or to slacken the velocity of a vessel to let another pass beyond her. To drop down, in seamens language, is to sail, row or move down a river, or toward the sea.