The Collaborative International Dictionary
Drop \Drop\, v. i.
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To fall in drops.
The kindly dew drops from the higher tree, And wets the little plants that lowly dwell.
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To fall, in general, literally or figuratively; as, ripe fruit drops from a tree; wise words drop from the lips.
Mutilations of which the meaning has dropped out of memory.
--H. Spencer.When the sound of dropping nuts is heard.
--Bryant. -
To let drops fall; to discharge itself in drops.
The heavens . . . dropped at the presence of God.
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To fall dead, or to fall in death; as, dropping like flies.
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. To come to an end; to cease; to pass out of mind; as, the affair dropped.
--Pope.-
To come unexpectedly; -- with in or into; as, my old friend dropped in a moment.
--Steele.Takes care to drop in when he thinks you are just seated.
--Spectator. To fall or be depressed; to lower; as, the point of the spear dropped a little.
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To fall short of a mark. [R.]
Often it drops or overshoots by the disproportion of distance.
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To be deep in extent; to descend perpendicularly; as, her main topsail drops seventeen yards.
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.]
Usage examples of "to drop down".
George did not disembark at the stone steps, but after waiting there for some time he began to drop down on the tide, keeping close inshore.
The instilment thereof into her mind would probably have caused this aged sister to drop down dead, at once, as by the effect of an intensely poisonous infusion.
Long before then we'll be there, even if we have to drop down outside your hunter/seekers' patrol range and come in on foot.
I directed it to drop down and approach the window of the tower where I stood.
I couldn't delay leaving much longer, or I'd have to drop down into the outer bailey and try to make my way over the outer curtain wall, and while I could do it, the exertions of the evening had already tired me more than they would have ten years before.