DROP

In English practice. When the members of a court are equally divided on the argument showing cause against a rule nisi, no order is made, i. e., the rule is nei- ther discharged nor made absolute, and the rule is said to drop. In practice, there be- ing a right to appeal, it has been usual to The general name of substances used in medicine; any substance, vegetable, animal, or mineral, used in the composition E or preparation of medicines. The term is F also applied to materials used in dyeing and in chemistry. See 79 N. C. 281; 53 Vt. 426.

When the members of a court in England are equally divided on the argument showing cause against a rule nisi, no order is made, i. e. the rule is neither discharged nor made absolute, and the rule is said to drop. In practice, there being a right to appeal, it has been usual to make an order in one way, the junior judge withdrawing his judgment. DROP-FEED, (defined). 110 Mass. 70, 86. DROP-LETTER.-A letter addressed for delivery in the same city or district in which it is posted. drunk when he did it should be taken into account by the jury in deciding whether he had that intention. Steph. Cr. Dig. 17. See DELIRIUM TREMENS. 3. Habitual drunkards.--Under the English Habitual Drunkards Act, 1879, and under the statutes of several of the States as well, asylums for the reception of habitual drunkards are established, and any habitual drunkard may, on his own application or on that of his friends, and on complying with certain formalities, be admitted into an asylum for a time mentioned in the application. DRUNKENNESS, (defined). 123 Mass. 436, 437. (how proved). 4 Wend. (N. Υ.) 113, (avoids a bond when). 2 Wheel. Am. 123. DROVE, CONDUCTED AND MANAGED, (in a declaration). 1 Carr. & P. 251. DROVE-ROAD.-A road or way for C. L. 384. driving cattle. (as affecting contracts). 1 Gr. (N. J.) 233; Sax. (N. J.) 320, 346; 3 Cow. (N. Y.) DROVER, (defined). 11 East 274, 279. 445; 2 Paige (N. Y.) 31, 422; 3 Hayw. (N. C.) (in a statute, who is a). Willes 588. 80, 82; 3 Wheel. Am. C. L. 413; 18 Ves. 12, 16. DRU.-A thicket or wood.-Domesd. DRUGGIST, (defined). 28 La. Ann. 765, 767; 120 Mass. 41, 42. DRUGS AND MEDICINES, (in a policy of insurance). 79 N. C. 279.

In English practice. When the members of a court are equally divided on the argument showing cause against a rule mist, no order is made, ¢. ¢€., the rule is nelther discharged nor made absolute, and the rule is said to drop. In practice, there being a right to appeal, it has been usual to make an order in one way, the junior judge withdrawing his judgment. Wharton.

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. 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. 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. Same as Gutta. Any small pendent ornament. Whatever is arranged to drop, hang, or fall from an elevated position; also, a contrivance for lowering something; as: 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. A machine for lowering heavy weights, as packages, coal wagons, etc., to a ship's deck. A contrivance for temporarily lowering a gas jet. A curtain which drops or falls in front of the stage of a theater, etc. A drop press or drop hammer. Any medicine the dose of which is measured by drops; as, lavender drops. The depth of a square sail; -- generally applied to the courses only. Ham. Nav. Encyc. Act of dropping; sudden fall or descent. Ague drop, Black drop. See under Ague, Black. -- Drop by drop, in small successive quantities; in repeated portions. "Made to taste drop by drop more than the bitterness of death." Burke. -- Drop curtain. See Drop, n.,

To pour or let fall in drops; to pour in small globules; to distill. "The trees drop balsam." Creech. The recording angel, as he wrote it down, dropped a tear upon the word and blotted it out forever. Sterne. 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. To let go; to dismiss; to set aside; to have done with; to discontinue; to forsake; to give up; to omit. They suddenly drop't the pursuit. S. Sharp. That astonishing ease with which fine ladies drop you and pick you up again. Thackeray. The connection had been dropped many years. Sir W. Scott. Dropping the too rough H in Hell and Heaven. Tennyson. 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. To lower, as a curtain, or the muzzle of a gun, etc. To send, as a letter; as, please drop me a line, a letter, word. To give birth to; as, to drop a lamb. To cover with drops; to variegate; to bedrop. Show to the sun their waved coats dropped with gold. Milton. To drop a vessel (Naut.), to leave it astern in a race or a chase; to outsail it.

To fall in drops. The kindly dew drops from the higher tree, And wets the little plants that lowly dwell. Spenser. To fall, in general, literally or figuratively; as, ripe fruit drops from a tree; wise words drop from the lips. Mutilations of which the meaning has dropped out of memory. H. Spencer. When the sound of dropping nuts is heard. Bryant. To let drops fall; to discharge itself in drops. The heavens . . . dropped at the presence of God. Ps. lxviii. 8. To fall dead, or to fall in death. Nothing, says Seneca, so soon reconciles us to the thoughts of our own death, as the prospect of one friend after another dropping round us. Digby. To come to an end; to cease; to pass out of mind; as, the affair dropped. Pope. To come unexpectedly; -- with in or into; as, my old friend dropped in a moment. Steele. Takes care to drop in when he thinks you are just seated. Spectator. To fall or be depressed; to lower; as, the point of the spear dropped a little. To fall short of a mark. [R.] Often it drops or overshoots by the disproportion of distance. Collier. To be deep in extent; to descend perpendicularly; as, her main topsail drops seventeen yards. To drop astern (Naut.), to go astern of another vessel; to be left behind; to slacken the speed of a vessel so as to fall behind and to let another pass a head. -- To drop down (Naut.), to sail, row, or move down a river, or toward the sea. -- To drop off, to fall asleep gently; also, to die. [Colloq.]

Of a liquid: to fall in drops or droplets. | To fall (straight down) under the influence of gravity, like a drop of liquid. | To fall (straight down) under the influence of gravity, like a drop of liquid. | Of an item: To appear for the player to pick up, usually after an enemy has been defeated. | To fall or sink quickly or suddenly to the ground. | To collapse in exhaustion or injury; also, to fall dead, or to fall in death. | To fall into a particular condition or state. | To come to an end (by not being kept up); to lapse, to stop. | To decrease, diminish, or lessen in condition, degree, value, etc. | To decrease, diminish, or lessen in condition, degree, value, etc. | Of a song or sound: to lower in key, pitch, tempo, or other quality. | To decrease, diminish, or lessen in condition, degree, value, etc. | Of a voice: to lower in timbre, often due to puberty. | To fall behind or to the rear of a group of people, etc., as a result of not keeping up with those at the front. | Usually followed by by, in, or into: of a person: to visit someone or somewhere informally or without a prior appointment. | Of a programme, software, a music album or song, etc.: to enter public distribution. | To drop out of the betting. | Of the testicles: to hang further away from the body and begin producing sperm due to puberty. | To let drops fall; to discharge itself in drops. | To drip (a liquid) in drops or small amounts. | To let (something) fall; to allow (something) to fall (either by releasing hold of, or losing one's grip on). | To let (something) fall; to allow (something) to fall (either by releasing hold of, or losing one's grip on). | Of a defeated enemy or container: To leave behind an item that the player can collect. | To move to a lower position; to allow to hang downwards; to lower. | To move to a lower position; to allow to hang downwards; to lower. | To quickly lower or take down (one's trousers), especially in public. | To move to a lower position; to allow to hang downwards; to lower. | To cook (food, especially fast food), particularly by lowering into hot oil to deep-fry, or by grilling. | To reduce; to make smaller. | Of an animal (usually a sheep): to give birth to (young); of a bird: to lay (an egg). | To mention (something) casually or incidentally, usually in conversation. | To let (a letter, etc.) fall into a postbox; hence, to send (a letter, email, or other message) in an offhand manner. | To make (someone or something) fall to the ground from a blow, gunshot, etc.; to bring down, to shoot down; to kill. | To set down (someone or something) from a vehicle; to stop and deliver or deposit (someone or something); to drop off. | To lower (a sound, a voice, etc.) in pitch or volume. | To lower (a sound, a voice, etc.) in pitch or volume. | To tune (a guitar string, etc.) to a lower note. | To cease concerning oneself over (someone or something); to have nothing more to do with (a discussion, subject, etc.). | To dispose or get rid of (something); to lose, to remove. | To cease to include (something), as if on a list; to dismiss, to eject, to expel. | To cancel or cease to participate in (a scheduled course, event, or project). | To lose, spend, or otherwise part with (money). | To pass or use (counterfeit cheques, money, etc.). | To impart (something). | Especially in drop acid: to swallow (a drug, particularly LSD). | To release (a programme, software, a music album or song, etc.) to the public. | To fail to write, or (especially) to pronounce (a syllable, letter, etc.). | To play (a portion of music) in the manner of a disc jockey. | To perform (rap music). | To (unexpectedly) lose (a competition, game, etc.). | Of a fielder: to fail to dismiss (a batsman) by accidentally dropping a batted ball that had initially been caught. | To score (a goal) by means of a drop kick. | To cover (something) with or as if with drops, especially of a different colour; to bedrop, to variegate. | To enter a more basic interface. | To present (the user) with a more basic interface. | To make someone, or be made to do push-ups or some other form of exercise on the ground as punishment.

A small quantity of liquid, just large enough to hold its own rounded shape through surface tension, especially one that falls from a source of liquid. | A small quantity of liquid, just large enough to hold its own rounded shape through surface tension, especially one that falls from a source of liquid. | A dose of liquid medicine in the form of a drop (sense 1). | A small quantity of liquid, just large enough to hold its own rounded shape through surface tension, especially one that falls from a source of liquid. | A liquid medicine that is intended to be administered in drops (sense 1). | A very small quantity of liquid, or (by extension) of anything. | A very small quantity of liquid, or (by extension) of anything. | A small amount of an alcoholic beverage. | A very small quantity of liquid, or (by extension) of anything. | Usually preceded by the: alcoholic spirits in general. | A very small quantity of liquid, or (by extension) of anything. | A single measure of whisky. | That which hangs or resembles a liquid globule, such as a hanging diamond earring or ornament, a glass pendant on a chandelier, etc. | Often preceded by a defining word: a small, round piece of hard candy, such as a lemon drop; a lozenge. | That which hangs or resembles a liquid globule, such as a hanging diamond earring or ornament, a glass pendant on a chandelier, etc. | An ornament resembling a pendant; a gutta. | A thing which drops or hangs down. | The cover mounted on a swivel over a keyhole that rests over the keyhole when not in use to keep out debris, but is swiveled out of the way before inserting the key. | A thing which drops or hangs down. | A fruit which has fallen off a tree, etc., or has been knocked off accidentally, rather than picked. | A thing which drops or hangs down. | A dropped pass. | A thing which drops or hangs down. | A trapdoor (“hinged platform”) on a gallows; a gallows itself. | A thing which drops or hangs down. | An item made available for the player to pick up from the remains of a defeated enemy. | A thing which drops or hangs down. | A mechanism for lowering something, such as a machine for lowering heavy weights on to a ship's deck, or a device for temporarily lowering a gas jet, etc. | A thing which drops or hangs down. | An overhead electrical line running from a utility pole to a customer's building or other premises. | A thing which drops or hangs down. | Ellipsis of drop hammer or drop press. | A thing which drops or hangs down. | A curtain which falls in front of a theatrical stage; also, a section of (cloth) scenery lowered on to the stage like a curtain. | An act or instance of dropping (in all senses). | An act of moving downwards under the force of gravity; a descent, a fall. | An act or instance of dropping (in all senses). | An instance of making a delivery of people, supplies, or things, especially by parachute out of an aircraft (an airdrop), but also by truck, etc. | An act or instance of dropping (in all senses). | A release (of music, a video game, etc). | An act or instance of dropping (in all senses). | The amount of money that a gambler exchanges for chips in a casino. | An act or instance of dropping (in all senses). | Preceded by the: execution by hanging. | An act or instance of dropping (in all senses). | Usually preceded by the: relegation from one division to a lower one. | An act or instance of dropping (in all senses). | Ellipsis of drop-back. | An act or instance of dropping (in all senses). | Ellipsis of drop target. | An act or instance of dropping (in all senses). | Ellipsis of drop kick. | An act or instance of dropping (in all senses). | Ellipsis of drop shot. | An act or instance of dropping (in all senses). | A near vertical decent down the face of a breaking wave. | An act or instance of dropping (in all senses). | An unsolicited credit card issue. | A decline in degree, quality, quantity, or rate. | A decline in degree, quality, quantity, or rate. | Of men's clothes: the difference between the chest circumference and waist circumference. | A decline in degree, quality, quantity, or rate. | Of women's clothes: the difference between the bust circumference and hip circumference. | The distance through which something drops, or falls below a certain level. | The distance below a cliff or other high position through which someone or something could fall; hence, a steep slope. | The distance through which something drops, or falls below a certain level. | The vertical length of a hanging curtain. | The distance through which something drops, or falls below a certain level. | The distance of the axis of a shaft below the base of a hanger. | The distance through which something drops, or falls below a certain level. | The distance that a person drops when being executed by hanging. | The distance through which something drops, or falls below a certain level. | The depth of a (square) sail (generally applied to the courses only); the vertical dimension of a sail. | A place where items or supplies may be left for others to collect, whether openly (as with a mail drop), or secretly or illegally (as in crime or espionage); a drop-off point. | Only used in get the drop on, have the drop on: an advantage. | A point in a song, usually electronic music such as dubstep, house, trance, or trap, where there is a very noticeable and pleasing change in bass, tempo, and/or overall tone; a climax, a highlight. | Licorice in confectionery form. | An automobile with a drop-top roof, a convertible. | A place (specified by an ordinal) in the batting order after the openers.