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King James Dictionary
• Drops
• Dropping
• Dropped
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1910 New Catholic Dictionary
• Drop Down Dew, Ye Heavens!
Vines' Expository Dictionary
• Drop
Wilson's Bible Types
• Drop
Webster Dictionary
• Toe Drop
• Rupert's Drop
• Knock-Out Drops
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Encyclopedias
1911 Encyclopedia Britannica
• Black Drop
International Standard Bible Encyclopedia
• Drop, Dropping
McClintock and Strong's Bible Encyclopedia
• Drops, Festival of the
Lexicons
• ܫܶܠܬ݂ܳܐ
• θρόμβος
• אֵגֶל
• דָּלַף , דָּלַף
• דֶּלֶף
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DROPS, G.

1. To pour or let fall in small portions or globules, as a fluid to distill.

The heavens shall drop down dew. Deuteronomy 33 .

2. To let fall as any substance as, to drop the anchor to drop a stone.

3. To let go to dismiss to lay aside to quit to leave to permit to subside as, to drop an affair to drop a controversy to drop a pursuit.

4. To utter slightly, briefly or casually as, to drop a word in favor of a friend.

5. To insert indirectly, incidentally, or by way of digression as, to drop a word of instruction in a letter

6. To lay aside to dismiss from possession as, to drop these frail bodies.

7. To leave as, to drop a letter at the post office.

8. To set down and leave as, the coach dropped a passenger at the inn.

9. To quit to suffer to cease as, to drop an acquaintance.

10. To let go to dismiss from association as, to drop a companion.

11. To suffer to end or come to nothing as, to drop a fashion.

12. To bedrop to speckle to variegate, as if by sprinkling with drops as a coat dropped with gold.

13. To lower as, to drop the muzzle of a gun.