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dropt |
2 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Dropt \Dropt\, imp. & p. p. of {Drop}, v. --G. Eliot. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Drop \Drop\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Dropped}or {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. The recording angel, as he wrote it down dropped a tear upon the word and blotted it out forever. --Sterne. 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. 3. To let go to dismiss; to set aside; to have done with to discontinue; to forsake; to give up to omit. They suddenly drop't the pursuit. --S. Sharp. That astonishing ease with which fine ladies drop you and pick you up again --Thackeray. The connection had been dropped many years. -- Sir W. Scott. Dropping the too rough H in Hell and Heaven. --Tennyson. 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 5. To lower, as a curtain, or the muzzle of a gun, etc 6. To send as a letter; as please drop me a line a letter, word 7. To give birth to as to drop a lamb. 8. To cover with drops; to variegate; to bedrop. Show to the sun their waved coats dropped with gold. --Milton. {To drop a vessel} (Naut.), to leave it astern in a race or a chase; to outsail it
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