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Counteracting or preventing hydrophobia. -- n.

Good against dropsy. -- n.

To sprinkle, as with drops. The yellow carp, in scales bedropped with gold. Pope.

One of the Chondropterygii.

c.) and selachians (sharks), but is now often restricted to the latter. [Written also Chondropterygia.]

A drop of dew. Shak.

A pendant for the ear; an earring; as, a pair of eardrops.

A drop from the eaves; eavesdrop. [R.] Tennyson.

what is said within doors; hence, to listen secretly to what is said in private. To eavesdrop in disguises. Milton.

One who stands under the eaves, or near the window or door of a house, to listen; hence, a secret listener.

The habit of lurking about dwelling houses, and other places where persons meet fro private intercourse, secretly listening to what is said, and then tattling it abroad. The offense is indictable at common law. Wharton.

See Eavesdrop.

See Eavesdropper.

A tear. [Poetic] Shak.

That part of a boltrope which is sewed to the upper edge or head of a sail.

A hydropathist.

Of or pertaining to hydropathy.

One who practices hydropathy; a water-cure doctor.

The water cure; a mode of treating diseases by the copious and frequent use of pure water, both internally and externally.

Same as Ascites.