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tic or saprophytic plants including the Indian pipe and pine sap. The name alludes to the dropping end of the stem.

An enlargement or protrusion of the mucous membrane of the lachrymal passages, or dropsy of the lachrymal sac, dependent upon catarrhal inflammation of the latter. Dunglison.

A dropping or bending forward of the upper oart or top of anything. Like a drunken sailor on a mast, Ready with every nod to tumble down. Shak.

To decline or fail to prosecute; to allow to be dropped (said of a suit); to enter judgment against (a plaintiff who fails to prosecute); as, the plaintiff was non-prossed.

To determine, adjudge, or record (a plaintiff) as having dropped his suit, upon his withdrawal or failure to follow it up. "When two are joined in a writ, and one is nonsuited." Z. Swift.

The arrangement of the red blood corpuscles in rouleaux, like piles of coins, as when a drop of human blood is examined under the microscope.

rom effusion of watery fluid in the cellular tissue beneath the skin or mucous membrance; dropsy of the subcutaneous cellular tissue. [Written also edema.]

The form or figure assumed by a drop of oil when placed upon water or some other liquid with which it does not mix.

To let go; to leave unmentioned; not to insert or name; to drop. These personal comparisons I omit. Bacon.

The eye, as luminous and spherical. [Poetic] A drop serene hath quenched their orbs. Milton.

-- Packing sheet. (a) A large cloth for packing goods. (b) A sheet prepared for packing hydropathic patients.

Designating certain morbid conditions, as hemorrhage or dropsy, characterized by relaxation of the vessels and tissues, with deficient vitality and lack of reaction in the affected tissues. Passive congestion (Med.), congestion due to obstruction to the return of the blood from the affected part. -- Passive iron (Chem…

A method of treatment, devised by Pasteur, for preventing certain diseases, as hydrophobia, by successive inoculations with an attenuated virus of gradually increasing strength.

To stop with a pawl; to drop the pawls off. To pawl the capstan. See under Capstan.

One who peeps; a prying person; a spy. Who's there peepers, . . . eavesdroppers J. Webster.

hanging appendage, especially one of an ornamental character; as to a chandelier or an eardrop; also, an appendix or addition, as to a book. Some hang upon the pendants of her ear. Pope. Many . . . have been pleased with this work and its pendant, the Tales and Popular Fictions. Keightley.

The cavity of a hydrophyllium.

t of the genus Alisma, having acrid leaves, and formerly regarded as a specific against hydrophobia. Loudon.

A piece of money, usually silver money. [Obs.] "Realms and islands were as plates dropp'd from his pocket." Shak.

To fall, drop, or move in any way, with a sudden splash or slap, as on the surface of water.