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Drops of some drug put in one's drink to stupefy him for purpose of robbery, etc. [Slang, U. S.]

The small-flowered Fuchsia (F. coccinea), and other closely related species.

A reddish herb (Pterospora andromedea) of the United States, found parasitic on the roots of pine trees.

A drop of rain.

A lozenge having a rose flavor.

A kind of glass drop with a long tail, made by dropping melted glass into water. It is remarkable for bursting into fragments when the surface is scratched or the tail broken; -- so called from Prince Rupert, nephew of Charles I., by whom they were first brought to England. Called also Rupert's ball, and glass tear.…

n appear while the snow is on the ground. It is cultivated in gardens for its beauty. Snowdrop tree. See Silver-bell tree, under Silver, a.

Any one of the several species of Kneiffia, esp. K. fruticosa (syn. Onothera fruticosa), of the Evening-primrose family, having flowers that open by daylight.

A morbid condition of the foot in which the toe is depressed and the heel elevated.

A European poisonous umbelliferous plant (Enanthe fistulosa) with large hollow stems and finely divided leaves.

To adorn. [Obs.] Congealed little drops which do the morn adore. Spenser.

To tend to by affinity or disposition. The drops of every fluid affect a round figure. Newton.

ns of terror or horror. Aghast he waked; and, starting from his bed, Cold sweat in clammy drops his limbs o'erspread. Dryden. The commissioners read and stood aghast. Macaulay.

as with cold. Dryden. Ague cake, an enlargement of the spleen produced by ague. -- Ague drop, a solution of the arsenite of potassa used for ague. -- Ague fit, a fit of the ague. Shak. -- Ague spell, a spell or charm against ague. Gay. -- Ague tree, the sassafras, -- sometimes so called from the use of its root fo…

One of the cultivated forms of Andropogon Halepensis (syn. Sorghum Halepense). See Andropogon, below.

ve, without any perceptible external change in the eye; -- called also gutta serena, the "drop serene" of Milton.

Dropsy of the subcutaneous cellular tissue; an effusion of serum into the cellular substance, occasioning a soft, pale, inelastic swelling of the skin.

Belonging, or affected by, anasarca, or dropsy; dropsical. Wiseman.

le fastened to the crown of the latter to prevent its coming home. -- To cast anchor, to drop or let go an anchor to keep a ship at rest. -- To cat the anchor, to hoist the anchor to the cathead and pass the ring-stopper. -- To fish the anchor, to hoist the flukes to their resting place (called the bill-boards), and…

Antihydrophobic.