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Smartweed (Polygonum Hydropiper).

nce: (a) To hide or to disclose an object. (b) To commence or close a performance. -- To drop the curtain, to end the tale, or close the performance.

To drop the bait gently on the surface of the water. To catch a club by dapping with a grasshoper. Walton.

To mark with, or as with, color; to color. Silver drops her vermeil cheeks depaint. Fairfax.

er the natural hue or color of; to change to a different color; to stain; to tinge; as, a drop of wine will discolor water; silver is discolored by sea water.

gate Of Eden stood disconsolate. Moore. The ladies and the knights, no shelter nigh, Were dropping wet, disconsolate and wan. Dryden.

To drop; to fall in drops; to trickle. Soft showers distilled, and suns grew warm in vain. Pope.

The act of falling in drops, or the act of pouring out in drops.

A mass of iron or lead hung from the yardarm, in readiness to be dropped on the deck of an enemy's vessel.

The sudden drop or depression of the strata of rocks on one side of a fault. See Throw, n.

of canvas fastened by lacing to the bonnet of a sail, to give it a greater depth, or more drop.

To become emptied of liquor by flowing or dropping; as, let the vessel stand and drain.

the siege. Nahum iii. 14. I opened the tumor by the point of a lancet without drawing one drop of blood. Wiseman.

A drop. [Obs.] Swift.

To fall in drops or small drops, or in a quick succession of drops; as, water dribbles from the eaves.

plement for making holes for sowing seed, and sometimes so formed as to contain seeds and drop them into the hole made.

To fall in drops; as, water drips from the eaves.

A falling in drops, or the sound so made.

To slaver; to let spittle drop or flow from the mouth, like a child, idiot, or dotard.

To rain slightly in very small drops; to fall, as water from the clouds, slowly and in fine particles; as, it drizzles; drizzling drops or rain. "Drizzling tears." Spenser.