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With a quick pace; quick; fast; speedily. His dewy locks did drop with brine apace. Spenser. A visible triumph of the gospel drawapace. I. Taylor.

The dropping of a letter or syllable from the beginning of a word; e. g., cute for acute.

Shortened by dropping a letter or a syllable from the beginning of a word; as, an aphetic word or form. -- A*phet"ic*al*ly, adv. New Eng. Dict.

To cut off or drop; as, to apocopate a word, or the last letter, syllable, or part of a word.

A small fish (Toxotes jaculator), of the East Indies; -- so called from its ejecting drops of water from its mouth at its prey. The name is also applied to Chætodon rostratus.

A collection of serous fluid in the cavity of the abdomen; dropsy of the peritoneum. Dunglison.

Of, pertaining to, or affected by, ascites; dropsical.

- To be astern of the reckoning, to be behind the position given by the reckoning. -- To drop astern, to fall or be left behind. -- To go astern, to go backward, as from the action of currents or winds.

ing. The poets represented her a rising out of the ocean, in a chariot, with rosy fingers dropping gentle dew.

old-colored spangles. It was produced in the first place by the accidental (par aventure) dropping of some brass filings into a pot of melted glass.

effectiveness in movement; ungraceful; as, he was awkward at a trick; an awkward boy. And dropped an awkward courtesy. Dryden.

A drop of sweat or other liquid. "Cold beads of midnight dew." Wordsworth.

haucer. Beard grass (Bot.), a coarse, perennial grass of different species of the genus Andropogon. -- To one's beard, to one's face; in open defiance.

Earlier; sooner than; until then. When the butt is out, we will drink water; not a drop before. Shak.

To adorn with gems, or as with gems. Begemmed with dewdrops. Sir W. Scott. Those lonely realms bright garden isles begem. Shelley.

To set or stud (anything) with ornaments or prominent objects. A robe of azure beset with drops of gold. Spectator. The garden is so beset with all manner of sweet shrubs that it perfumes the air. Evelyn.

prinkle with something brilliant or glittering. The grass . . . is all bespangled with dewdrops. Cowper.

To issue forth, or drop, as blood from an incision. For me the balm shall bleed. Pope.

Something blunt and round; a small drop or lump of something viscid or thick; a drop; a bubble; a blister. Wright.

aled glass which will fly into pieces when its surface is scratched by a hard body, as by dropping into it a fragment of flint; whereas a bullet may be dropped into it without injury.