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Having a dropsical habit of body, with a white bloated skin.

rience. -- Lip work. (a) Talk. (b) Kissing. [Humorous] B. Jonson. -- Lip make a lip, to drop the under lip in sullenness or contempt. Shak. -- To shoot out the lip (Script.), to show contempt by protruding the lip.

A yellow coloring matter, soluble in ether, contained in the small round fat drops in the retinal epithelium cells. It is best obtained from the eyes of frogs.

Hydrophobia.

t a projecting parapet, or in the floor of a gallery or the roof of a portal, shooting or dropping missiles upen assailants attacking the base of the walls. Also, the construction of such defenses, in general, when of this character. See Illusts. of Battlement and Castle.

th rage, terror, or disease; -- said of the lower animals; as, a mad bull; esp., having hydrophobia; rabid; as, a mad dog.

Falling in small drops; mistling; mizzing. [Obs.] Arbuthnot.

the cure or alleviation of bodily disorders; as, medicinal tinctures, plants, or springs. Drop tears as fast as the Arabian trees Their medicinal gum. Shak.

An alley where there are stables; a narrow passage; a confined place. [Eng.] Mr. Turveydrop's great room... was built out into a mews at the back. Dickens.

The smallest liquid measure, equal to about one drop; the sixtieth part of a fluid drachm.

Very small; little; tiny; fine; slight; slender; inconsiderable. "Minute drops." Milton.

To rain in very fine drops, like a thick mist; to mizzle.

Raining in very small drops.

To rain in very fine drops; as, it mists.

To fall in very fine drops, as rain.

liquid medicine containing very active substances, and which can only be administered by drops. Dunglison.

n; an alexipharmic; -- so called from King Mithridates, its reputed inventor. [Love is] a drop of the true elixir; no mithridate so effectual against the infection of vice. Southey.

To rain in very fine drops. Spenser.

igh, falls on the head of the pile, and drives it into the earth; the falling weight of a drop hammer used in forging.

es but one parent, as in reproduction by fission or in the formation of buds, etc., which drop off and form new individuals; asexual reproduction. Haeckel.