Drops
Drops [1]
DROPS, 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 .
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.
