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{ Drogman (?), Drogoman (?) }, n. See .
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Drogue (drōg), n. 1. (Naut.) See , n., 6, and Drag sail, under , n.
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2. a small parachute dragged behind a vehicle as a means of stabilizing it, or deployed first so as to assist opening of a larger parachute.
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3. a funnel-shaped attachment at the end of a hose suspended from a tanker airplane in flight, to which the probe of another airplane may connect, so as to complete a connecting hose line through which fuel may be transferred from the tanker to the following airplane. It is used for in-flight refueling.
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Droh (?), imp. of . [Obs.] Chaucer.
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Droil (droil), v. i. [D. druilen to mope.] To work sluggishly or slowly; to plod. [Obs.]
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Droil, n. [D. druil sluggard. Cf. .] 1. A drudge. [Obs.] Beau. & Fl.
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2. Mean labor; toil.[Obs.]
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Droit (droit), n. [F. See .] A right; law in its aspect of the foundation of rights; also, in old law, the writ of right. Abbott.
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Coloq. Droit d'aubaine . See under . -- Coloq. Droits of the Admiralty (Eng. Law), rights or perquisites of the Admiralty, arising from seizure of an enemy's ships in port on the breaking out of war, or those coming into port in ignorance of hostilities existing, or from such ships as are taken by noncommissioned captors; also, the proceeds of wrecks, and derelict property at sea. The droits of admiralty are now paid into the Exchequer for the public benefit.
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Droitural (?), a. (O. Eng. Law) relating to the mere right of property, as distinguished from the right of possession; as, droitural actions. [Obs.] Burrill.
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Droitzschka (?), n. See .
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Droll (drōl), a. [Compar. Droller (?); superl. Drollest (?).] [F. drôle; cf. G. & D. drollig, LG. drullig, D. drol a thick and short person, a droll, Sw. troll a magical appearance, demon, trolla to use magic arts, enchant, Dan. trold elf, imp, Icel. tröll giant, magician, evil spirit, monster. If this is the origin, cf. .] Queer, and fitted to provoke laughter; ludicrous from oddity; amusing and strange.

Syn. -- Comic; comical; farcical; diverting; humorous; ridiculous; queer; odd; waggish; facetious; merry; laughable; ludicrous. -- , , . Laughable is the generic term, denoting anything exciting laughter or worthy of laughter; comical denotes something of the kind exhibited in comedies, something humorous of the kind exhibited in comedies, something, as it were, dramatically humorous; droll stands lower on the scale, having reference to persons or things which excite laughter by their buffoonery or oddity. A laughable incident; a comical adventure; a droll story.
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Droll, n. 1. One whose practice it is to raise mirth by odd tricks; a jester; a buffoon; a merry-andrew. Prior.
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2. Something exhibited to raise mirth or sport, as a puppet, a farce, and the like.
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Droll, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Drolled (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Drolling.] To jest; to play the buffoon. [R.]
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Droll, v. t. 1. To lead or influence by jest or trick; to banter or jest; to cajole.
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Men that will not be reasoned into their senses, may yet be laughed or drolled into them. L'Estrange.
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2. To make a jest of; to set in a comical light. [R.]
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This drolling everything is rather fatiguing. W. D. Howells.
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Droller, n. A jester; a droll. [Obs.] Glanvill.
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Drollery (?), n.; pl. Drolleries (#). [F. drôlerie. See .] 1. The quality of being droll; sportive tricks; buffoonery; droll stories; comical gestures or manners.
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The rich drollery of “She Stoops to Conquer.” Macaulay.
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2. Something which serves to raise mirth; as: (a) A puppet show; also, a puppet. [Obs.] Shak. (b) A lively or comic picture. [Obs.]
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I bought an excellent drollery, which I afterward parted with to my brother George of Wotton. Evelyn.
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Drollingly, adv. In a jesting manner.
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Drollish, a. Somewhat droll. Sterne.
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Drollist, n. A droll. [R.] Glanvill.
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Dromæognathous (?), a. [NL. dromaius emu + Gr. gnaqos jaw.] (Zoöl.) Having the structure of the palate like that of the ostrich and emu.
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Dromatherium (?), n. [NL., fr. Gr. dromas running + qhrion beast. See .] (Paleon.) A small extinct triassic mammal from North Carolina, the earliest yet found in America.
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Drome (drōm), n. [F., fr. Gr. dromas running. See .] (Zoöl.) The crab plover (Dromas ardeola), a peculiar North African bird, allied to the oyster catcher.
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Drome (drōm), n. Short for . [Slang]

Dromedary (drŭm�d�r�), n.; pl. Dromedaries (-rĭz). [F. dromadaire, LL. dromedarius, fr. L. dromas (sc. camelus), fr. Gr. dromas running, from dramei^n, used as aor. of trechein to run; cf. Skr. dram to run.] (Zoöl.) The Arabian camel (Camelus dromedarius), having one hump or protuberance on the back, in distinction from the Bactrian camel, which has two humps.
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☞ In Arabia and Egypt the name is restricted to the better breeds of this species of camel. See .

{ Dromond (?), or Dromon (?) }. [OF. dromont, L. dromo, fr. Gr. dromwn light vessel, prob. fr. dramei^n to run. See .] In the Middle Ages, a large, fast-sailing galley, or cutter; a large, swift war vessel. [Hist. or Archaic] Fuller.
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The great dromond swinging from the quay. W. Morris.
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Drone (?), n. [OE. drane a dronebee, AS. drān; akin to OS. drān, OHG. treno, G. drohne, Dan. drone, cf. Gr. � a kind of wasp, dial. Gr. � drone. Prob. named fr. the droning sound. See , v. i.] 1. (Zoöl.) The male of bees, esp. of the honeybee. It gathers no honey. See .
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All with united force combine to drive
The lazy drones from the laborious hive. Dryden.
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2. One who lives on the labors of others; a lazy, idle fellow; a sluggard.
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By living as a drone,to be an unprofitable and unworthy member of so noble and learned a society. Burton.
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3. That which gives out a grave or monotonous tone or dull sound; as: (a) A drum. [Obs.] Halliwell. (b) The part of the bagpipe containing the two lowest tubes, which always sound the key note and the fifth.
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4. A humming or deep murmuring sound.
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The monotonous drone of the wheel. Longfellow.
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5. (Mus.) A monotonous bass, as in a pastoral composition.
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Drone (drōn), v. i. [imp. & p. p. Droned (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Droning.] [Cf. (for sense 1) D. dreunen, G. dröhnen, Icel. drynja to roar, drynr a roaring, Sw. dröna to bellow, drone, Dan. dröne, Goth. drunjus sound, Gr. � dirge, � to cry aloud, Skr. dhran to sound. Cf. , n.] 1. To utter or make a low, dull, monotonous, humming or murmuring sound.
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Where the beetle wheels his droning flight. T. Gray.
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2. To love in idleness; to do nothing. “Race of droning kings.” Dryden.
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Drone bee (?). (Zoöl.) The male of the honeybee; a drone.
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Drone fly (?). (Zoöl.) A dipterous insect (Eristalis tenax), resembling the drone bee. See .
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Dronepipe, n. One of the low-toned tubes of a bagpipe.
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Drongo (?), n.; pl. Drongos (�). (Zoöl.) A passerine bird of the family Dicruridæ. They are usually black with a deeply forked tail. They are natives of Asia, Africa, and Australia; -- called also drongo shrikes.
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Dronish (?), a. Like a drone; indolent; slow. Burke. -- Dronishly, adv. -- Dronishness, n.
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Dronkelewe (?), a. [See .] Given to drink; drunken. [Obs.] Chaucer.
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Dronte (?), n. [F.] (Zoöl.) The dodo.
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Drony (?), a. Like a drone; sluggish; lazy.
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Drool (?), v. i. [imp. & p. p. Drooled (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Drooling.] [Contr. fr. drivel.] To drivel, or drop saliva; as, the child drools.
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His mouth drooling with texts. T. Parker.
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Droop (dr�p), v. i. [imp. & p. p. Drooped (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Drooping.] [Icel. drūpa; akin to E. drop. See .] 1. To hang bending downward; to sink or hang down, as an animal, plant, etc., from physical inability or exhaustion, want of nourishment, or the like. “The purple flowers droop.” “Above her drooped a lamp.” Tennyson.
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I saw him ten days before he died, and observed he began very much to droop and languish. Swift.
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2. To grow weak or faint with disappointment, grief, or like causes; to be dispirited or depressed; to languish; as, her spirits drooped.
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I'll animate the soldier's drooping courage. Addison.
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3. To proceed downward, or toward a close; to decline. “Then day drooped.” Tennyson.
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Droop, v. t. To let droop or sink. [R.] M. Arnold.
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Like to a withered vine
That droops his sapless branches to the ground. Shak.
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Droop, n. A drooping; as, a droop of the eye.
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Drooper (?), n. One who, or that which, droops.
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Droopingly, adv. In a drooping manner.
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droopy adj. bending downward due to lack of tautness; -- of lines.
Syn. -- drooping, sagging, slack.
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Drop (drŏp), n. [OE. drope, AS. dropa; akin to OS. dropo, D. drop, OHG. tropo, G. tropfen, Icel. dropi, Sw. droppe; and Fr. AS. dreópan to drip, drop; akin to OS. driopan, D. druipen, OHG. triofan, G. triefen, Icel. drjūpa. Cf. , .] 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.
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With minute drops from off the eaves. Milton.
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As dear to me as are the ruddy drops
That visit my sad heart. Shak.
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That drop of peace divine. Keble.
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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.
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3. (Arch.) (a) Same as . (b) Any small pendent ornament.
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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.
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5. pl. Any medicine the dose of which is measured by drops; as, lavender drops.
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6. (Naut.) The depth of a square sail; -- generally applied to the courses only. Ham. Nav. Encyc.
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7. Act of dropping; sudden fall or descent.
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Coloq. Ague drop , Coloq. Black drop . See under , . -- Coloq. Drop by drop , in small successive quantities; in repeated portions. “Made to taste drop by drop more than the bitterness of death.” Burke. -- Coloq. Drop curtain . See , n., 4. (d). -- Coloq. Drop forging . (Mech.) (a) A forging made in dies by a drop hammer. (b) The process of making drop forgings. -- Coloq. 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. -- Coloq. Drop kick (Football), a kick given to the ball as it rebounds after having been dropped from the hands. -- Coloq. Drop lake , a pigment obtained from Brazil wood. Mollett. -- Coloq. Drop letter , a letter to be delivered from the same office where posted. -- Coloq. Drop press (Mech.), a drop hammer; sometimes, a dead-stroke hammer; -- also called drop. -- Coloq. Drop scene , a drop curtain on which a scene is painted. See , n., 4. (d). -- Coloq. Drop seed . (Bot.) See the List under . -- Coloq. Drop serene . (Med.) See .
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Drop (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Dropped (?) or Dropt; p. pr. & vb. n. Dropping.] [OE. droppen, AS. dropan, v. i. See , n.] 1. To pour or let fall in drops; to pour in small globules; to distill. “The trees drop balsam.” Creech.
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The recording angel, as he wrote it down, dropped a tear upon the word and blotted it out forever. Sterne.
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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.
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3. To let go; to dismiss; to set aside; to have done with; to discontinue; to forsake; to give up; to omit.
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They suddenly drop't the pursuit. S. Sharp.
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That astonishing ease with which fine ladies drop you and pick you up again. Thackeray.
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The connection had been dropped many years. Sir W. Scott.
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Dropping the too rough H in Hell and Heaven. Tennyson.
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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.
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5. To lower, as a curtain, or the muzzle of a gun, etc.
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6. To send, as a letter; as, please drop me a line, a letter, word.
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7. To give birth to; as, to drop a lamb.
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8. To cover with drops; to variegate; to bedrop.
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Show to the sun their waved coats dropped with gold. Milton.
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Coloq. To drop a vessel (Naut.), to leave it astern in a race or a chase; to outsail it.
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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. 8.
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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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Coloq. 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. -- Coloq. To drop down (Naut.), to sail, row, or move down a river, or toward the sea. -- Coloq. To drop off , to fall asleep gently; also, to die. [Colloq.]
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drop cloth n. a sheet of material used to cover objects or surfaces while painting a ceiling or wall of a house, so as to protect objects from being marred by drops of paint splashed inadvertantly in the painting process. Originally such drop cloths were made of cloth, but more recently paper or plastic have also commonly been used.
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drop forge n. a device for making large forgings, in which a heavy hammer drops onto the metalwork to be forged, pressing it into a form or anvil underneath, or between dies.
Syn. -- drop hammer, drop press. [WordNet 1.5 +PJC]

dropforge v. t. to forge with a drop forge; -- of metals.
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dropkick n. an act of kicking a football (as for a field goal) in which the football is dropped and kicked as it touches the ground.
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dropkicker n. a football kicker who drops the ball and kicks it just as it reaches the ground.
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droplet (?), n. A little drop; a tear. Shak.
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droplight (?), n. An electric or gas light suspended from the ceiling by a flexible cord or tube, allowing artificial light to be brought down from a chandelier nearer to a table or desk; a pendant; also, an electric light bulb in a small holder, which can be held in the hand or hung from a hook, and attached to a long electric cord, allowing light to be brought close to work in dark areas of a room.

{ Dropmeal, Dropmele } (?), adv. [AS. drop-mǣlum; dropa drop + mǣl portion. Cf. .] By drops or small portions. [Obs.]
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Distilling dropmeal, a little at once. Holland.
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drop-off n. 1. a noticeable decline in performance; as, a drop-off in attendance. [wns=1]
Syn. -- slump, falloff, falling off.
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2. a steep high face of rock.
Syn. -- cliff. [wns=2]
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3. a change downward; as, there was a sharp drop-off in sales. [wns=3]
Syn. -- decrease, lessening.
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dropped adj. born; -- used of an animal. Opposite of unborn.
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dropper (?), n. 1. One who, or that which, drops. Specif.: (Fishing) A fly that drops from the leader above the bob or end fly.
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2. A dropping tube, usually of glass or plastic with a narrow opening at the tip and a rubber bulb at the top which can be squeezed to control intake or outflow of the fluid. The word is used in combinations with obvious significance, as eye dropper, medicine dropper, etc.
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3. (Mining) A branch vein which drops off from, or leaves, the main lode.
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4. (Zoöl.) A dog which suddenly drops upon the ground when it sights game, -- formerly a common, and still an occasional, habit of the setter.
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Dropping (?), n. 1. The action of causing to drop or of letting drop; falling.
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2. pl. That which falls in drops; the excrement or dung of animals; -- often used in the plural.
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Coloq. Dropping bottle , an instrument used to supply small quantities of a fluid to a test tube or other vessel. -- Coloq. Dropping fire , a continued irregular discharge of firearms. -- Coloq. Dropping tube , a tube for ejecting any liquid in drops.
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droppings n. pl. fecal matter of animals; plural of .
Syn. -- dung, muck.
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Droppingly, adv. In drops.
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Dropsical (?), a. [From .] 1. Diseased with dropsy; hydropical; tending to dropsy; as, a dropsical patient.
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2. Of or pertaining to dropsy.
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Dropsicalness, n. State of being dropsical.
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Dropsied (?), a. Diseased with drops. Shak.
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Dropsy (?), n.; pl. Dropsies (#). [OE. dropsie, dropesie, OF. idropisie, F. hydropisie, L. hydropisis, fr. Gr. � dropsy, fr. � water. See , and cf. .] (Med.) An unnatural collection of serous fluid in any serous cavity of the body, or in the subcutaneous cellular tissue. Dunglison.
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Dropt (?), imp. & p. p. of , v. G. Eliot.
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Dropwise (?), adv. After the manner of a drop; in the form of drops.
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Trickling dropwise from the cleft. Tennyson.
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