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ma). -- Tree serpent (Zoöl.), any species of African serpents belonging to the family Dendrophidæ.

To fall in drops; to pour. [Obs.] Such a rain down from the welkin shadde. Chaucer.

the shot of an enemy in a ship's side. -- Shot tower, a lofty tower for making shot, by dropping from its summit melted lead in slender streams. The lead forms spherical drops which cool in the descent, and are received in water or other liquid. -- Shot window, a window projecting from the wall. Ritson, quoted by Ha…

To drop; to flow; to fall. [Prov. Eng.]

tree (Halesia tetraptera) with white bell-shaped flowers in clusters or racemes; the snowdrop tree. -- Silver bush (Bot.), a shrubby leguminous plant (Anthyllis Barba- Jovis) of Southern Europe, having silvery foliage. -- Silver chub (Zoöl.), the fallfish. -- Silver eel. (Zoöl.) (a) The cutlass fish. (b) A pale var…

ap (Bot.), an American herb (Scetellaria lateriflora) formerly prescribed as a cure for hydrophobia.

clothing; also, such clothing; hence, hasty, slovenly work of any kind. No slopwork ever dropped from his [Carlyle's] pen. Froude.

A machine the operation of which is started by dropping a coin into a slot, for delivering small articles of merchandise, showing one's weight, exhibiting pictures, throwing dice, etc.

An acrid plant of the genus Polygonum (P. Hydropiper), which produces smarting if applied where the skin is tender.

everal bulbous plants of the genus Leucoium (L. vernum, æstivum, etc.) resembling the snowdrop, but having all the perianth leaves of equal size.

quality or state of being spherial; roundness; as, the sphericity of the planets, or of a drop of water.

, when, on being thrown on a surface of highly heated metal, it rolls about in spheroidal drops or masses, at a temperature several degrees below ebullition, and without actual contact with the heated surface, -- a phenomenon due to the repulsive force of heat, the intervention of a cushion of nonconducting vapor, and…

frolic; to wanton. [Fish], sporting with quick glance, Show to the sun their waved coats dropt with gold. Milton.

Water flying in small drops or particles, as by the force of wind, or the dashing of waves, or from a waterfall, and the like.

To scatter in small drops or particles, as water, seed, etc.

A small quantity falling in distinct drops or particles; as, a sprinkling of rain or snow.

With a heavy fall; plump. [Vulgar] The eagle took the tortoise up into the air, and dropped him down, squab, upon a rock. L'Estrange.

A drop measurer; a glass tube tapering to a small orifice at the point, and having a bulb in the middle, used for finding the number of drops in equal quantities of different liquids. See Pipette. Sir D. Brewster.

A deposit more or less resembling an inverted stalactite, formed by calcareous water dropping on the floors of caverns; hence, a similar deposit of other material.

To cause to fall by drops.