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To drivel, or drop saliva; as, the child drools. His mouth drooling with texts. T. Parker.

To clothe or invest; to ornament; to adorn. [Obs.] His diadem was dropped down Dubbed with stones. Morte d'Arthure.

To drop the head or person suddenly; to bow. The learned pate Ducks to the golden fool. Shak.

Sharp; sour; acid. [Obs.] "Like eager droppings into milk." Shak.

The dropping out or suppression from a word of a consonant, with or without a vowel.

ll quantities of sweetened liquid, water, etc., to any mixture, or to test tubes, etc.; a dropping bottle.

uppression of a vowel or syllable, for the sake of meter or euphony; esp., in poetry, the dropping of a final vowel standing before an initial vowel in the following word, when the two words are drawn together.

Having water within; containing fluid drops; -- said of certain crystals.

To animate; to encourage; to cheer. It raiseth the dropping spirit, erecting it to a loving complaisance. Barrow.

To drop or distill. [Obs.] Johnson.

scend, either suddenly or gradually; particularly, to descend by the force of gravity; to drop; to sink; as, the apple falls; the tide falls; the mercury falls in the barometer. I beheld Satan as lightning fall from heaven. Luke x. 18.

Dropped; prostrate; degraded; ruined; decreased; dead. Some ruined temple or fallen monument. Rogers.

That which makes fat or fertile. The clouds drop fatness. Philips.

Indicating, or caused by, fear. Cold fearful drops stand on my trembling flesh. Shak.

tubes with very little water space, kept nearly red hot so that the water as it trickles drop by drop into the tubes is immediately flashed into steam and superheated.

y friction and can turn, by slipping, under excessive strain or in starting. -- Friction drop hammer, one in which the hammer is raised for striking by the friction of revolving rollers which nip the hammer rod. -- Friction gear. See Frictional gearing, under Frictional. -- Friction machine, an electrical machine, g…

Filled with emotions. The heart is so full that a drop overfills it. Lowell.

ies shall not be able to gainsay nor resist. Luke xxi. 15. The just gods gainsay That any drop thou borrow'dst from thy mother, My sacred aunt, should by my mortal sword Be drained. Shak.

To drop from a high place upon sharp stakes or hooks, as the Turks dropped malefactors, by way of punishment. Ganching, which is to let fall from on high upon hooks, and there to hang until they die. Sandys.

To embellish or adorn, as with gems; as, a foliage gemmed with dewdrops. England is . . . gemmed with castles and palaces. W. Irving.