Crossword-Solution: DROP
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| Drop | n. | The quantity of fluid which falls in one small spherical mass; a liquid globule; a minim; hence, also, the smallest easily measured portion of a fluid; a small quantity; as, a drop of water. |
| Drop | n. | That which resembles, or that which hangs like, a liquid drop; as a hanging diamond ornament, an earring, a glass pendant on a chandelier, a sugarplum (sometimes medicated), or a kind of shot or slug. |
| Drop | n. | Same as Gutta. |
| Drop | n. | Any small pendent ornament. |
| Drop | n. | Whatever is arranged to drop, hang, or fall from an elevated position; also, a contrivance for lowering something |
| Drop | n. | A door or platform opening downward; a trap door; that part of the gallows on which a culprit stands when he is to be hanged; hence, the gallows itself. |
| Drop | n. | A machine for lowering heavy weights, as packages, coal wagons, etc., to a ship's deck. |
| Drop | n. | A contrivance for temporarily lowering a gas jet. |
| Drop | n. | A curtain which drops or falls in front of the stage of a theater, etc. |
| Drop | n. | A drop press or drop hammer. |
| Drop | n. | The distance of the axis of a shaft below the base of a hanger. |
| Drop | n. | Any medicine the dose of which is measured by drops; as, lavender drops. |
| Drop | n. | The depth of a square sail; -- generally applied to the courses only. |
| Drop | n. | Act of dropping; sudden fall or descent. |
| Drop | n. | To pour or let fall in drops; to pour in small globules; to distill. |
| Drop | n. | To cause to fall in one portion, or by one motion, like a drop; to let fall; as, to drop a line in fishing; to drop a courtesy. |
| Drop | n. | To let go; to dismiss; to set aside; to have done with; to discontinue; to forsake; to give up; to omit. |
| Drop | n. | To bestow or communicate by a suggestion; to let fall in an indirect, cautious, or gentle manner; as, to drop hint, a word of counsel, etc. |
| Drop | n. | To lower, as a curtain, or the muzzle of a gun, etc. |
| Drop | n. | To send, as a letter; as, please drop me a line, a letter, word. |
| Drop | n. | To give birth to; as, to drop a lamb. |
| Drop | n. | To cover with drops; to variegate; to bedrop. |
| Drop | v. i. | To fall in drops. |
| Drop | v. i. | To fall, in general, literally or figuratively; as, ripe fruit drops from a tree; wise words drop from the lips. |
| Drop | v. i. | To let drops fall; to discharge itself in drops. |
| Drop | v. i. | To fall dead, or to fall in death. |
| Drop | v. i. | To come to an end; to cease; to pass out of mind; as, the affair dropped. |
| Drop | v. i. | To come unexpectedly; -- with in or into; as, my old friend dropped in a moment. |
| Drop | v. i. | To fall or be depressed; to lower; as, the point of the spear dropped a little. |
| Drop | v. i. | To fall short of a mark. |
| Drop | v. i. | To be deep in extent; to descend perpendicularly; as, her main topsail drops seventeen yards. |
Anagrams
| Word | Anagrams | |
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| DROP | anagram | DOPR, DORP, PROD |
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An inflammatory disease of the skin, characterized by the
presence of redness and itching, an eruption of small vesicles, and the
discharge of a watery exudation, which often dries up, leaving the skin
covered with crusts; -- called also tetter, milk crust, and salt rheum.
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eruption
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Sentences with DROP (5)
The dream by itself would have been a trifle, but while she was dreaming the window of the nursery blew open, and a boy did drop on the floor.
Full soon Among them he arriv’d; in his right hand Grasping ten thousand Thunders, which he sent Before him, such as in thir Soules infix’d Plagues; they astonisht all resistance lost, All courage; down thir idle weapons drop’d; O’re Shields and Helmes, and helmed heads he rode Of Thrones and mighty Seraphim prostrate, That wish’d the Mountains now might be again Thrown on them as a shelter from his ire.
The larger the number of your family, the greater your cause of sorrow, in seeing them shut up in this prison-house.” Mercury and the Workmen A WORKMAN, felling wood by the side of a river, let his axe drop by accident into a deep pool.
For rice, traditionally the most important export, the drop in world prices has been accompanied by shrinking markets and a smaller volume of sales.
Will you come to the house?” “We could knock in a bit and a drop a good deal freer, Miss, if so be ye’d send it to Warren’s Malthouse,” replied the spokesman.
Quotes with DROP (3)
Real isn't how you are made,' said the Skin Horse. 'It's a thing that happens to you. When a child loves you for a long, long time, not just to play with, but REALLY loves you, then you become Real.''Does it hurt?' asked the Rabbit. 'Sometimes,' said the Skin Horse, for he was always truthful. 'When you are Real you don't mind being hurt.' 'Does it happen all at once, like being wound up,' he asked, 'or bit by bit?' 'It doesn't happen all at once,' said the Skin Horse. 'You b…
For the first twenty years of my life, I rocked myself to sleep. It was a harmless enough hobby, but eventually, I had to give it up. Throughout the next twenty-two years I lay still and discovered that after a few minutes I could drop off with no problem. Follow seven beers with a couple of scotches and a thimble of good marijuana, and it’s funny how sleep just sort of comes on its own. Often I never even made it to the bed. I’d squat down to pet the cat and wake up on the f…
Would you like a cough drop Dolores?
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Appears in: Boston Globe, Chronicle, Crossroads, CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, New Yorker, NY Sun, NYT, Onion, Rock & Roll, S&S, Slate, Universal, USA TODAY, WP, WSJ.
Used 568 times in crossword archives (1951–2025).