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im; hence, also, the smallest easily measured portion of a fluid; a small quantity; as, a drop of water. With minute drops from off the eaves. Milton. As dear to me as are the ruddy drops That visit my sad heart. Shak. That drop of peace divine. Keble.

A little drop; a tear. Shak.

An apparatus for bringing artificial light down from a chandelier nearer to a table or desk; a pendant.

By drops or small portions. [Obs.] Distilling dropmeal, a little at once. Holland.

One who, or that which, drops. Specif.: (Fishing) A fly that drops from the leaden above the bob or end fly.

The action of causing to drop or of letting drop; falling.

In drops.

Diseased with dropsy; hydropical; tending to dropsy; as, a dropsical patient.

State of being dropsical.

Diseased with drops. Shak.

An unnatural collection of serous fluid in any serous cavity of the body, or in the subcutaneous cellular tissue. Dunglison.

imp. & p. p. of Drop, v. G. Eliot.

After the manner of a drop; in the form of drops. Trickling dropwise from the cleft. Tennyson.

The larva of any geometrid moth, which drops from trees by means of a thread of silk, as the cankerworm.

An Old World species of Spiræa (S. filipendula), with finely cut leaves.

Produced by the conversion of the stamens into petals, as double flowers, like the garden ranunculus. Brande.

Cannibals; man-eaters; anthropophagi. [R.]

Anthropophagous.

A support or column on which stamens are raised. Gray.

A very large and important genus of grasses, found in nearly all parts of the world. It includes the lemon grass of Ceylon and the beard grass, or broom sedge, of the United States. The principal subgenus is Sorghum, including A. sorghum and A. halepensis, from which have been derived the Chinese sugar cane, the Johns…