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Any plant of the American genus Hydrophyllum, herbs having white or pale blue bell-shaped flowers. Gray.

2 Cor. x. 4. They, astonished, all resistance lost, All courage; down their idle weapons dropped. Milton.

To flow in drops; to run in drops. The blood weeps from my heart. Shak.

Discharging water, or other liquid, in drops or very slowly; surcharged with water. "Weeping grounds." Mortimer.

out. Also used figuratively. "To wipe out our ingratitude." Shak. Some natural tears they dropped, but wiped them soon. Milton.

bject of exertion; the thing occupying one; business; duty; as, to take up one's work; to drop one's work. Come on, Nerissa; I have work in hand That you yet know not of. Shak. In every work that he began . . . he did it with all his heart, and prospered. 2 Chron. xxxi. 21.

iognomy was wreathed. Sir W. Scott. From his slack hand the garland wreathed for Eve Down dropped. Milton.

me cases of nervous disease by suddenly bending the hand back upon the forearm. -- Wrist drop (Med.), paralysis of the extensor muscles of the hand, affecting the hand so that when an attempt is made to hold it out in line with the forearm with the palm down, the hand drops. It is chiefly due to plumbism. Called also…

rom morn To noon he fell, from noon to dewy eve, A summer's day; and with the setting sun Dropped from the zenith, like a falling star. Milton.