To fall in small portions or globules, as a liquid.To let drops fall; drip; discharge in drops.To fall; descend; sink to a lower position or level.Specifically, to lie down, as a dog.To die, especially to die suddenly; fall dead, as in battle.To come to an end; be allowed to cease;be neglected and come to nothing.To fall short of a mark.To fall lower in state or condition; sink;be depressed; come into a state of collapse orquiescence.Nautical, to have a certain drop, or depth from top to bottom: said of a sail.To pour or let fall in small portions, globules, or drops, as a liquid: as, to drop a medicine.To sprinkle with or as if with drops; variegate, as if by sprinkling with drops; bedrop:as, a coat dropped with gold.To let fall; allow to sink to a lower position; lower: as, to drop a stone; to drop the muzzle of a gun.Hence To let fall from the womb; give birth to: said of ewes, etc.: as, to drop a lamb.To cause to fall; hence, to kill, especially with a firearm.To let go; dismiss; lay aside; break off from; omit: as, to drop an affair or a controversy; to drop an acquaintance; to drop a letter from a word.To utter as if casually: as, to drop a word in favor of a friend.To write and send (a note) in an offhand manner: as, drop me a line.To set down from a carriage.To write a letter or note.n. A mass of water or other liquid so small that the surface-tension brings it into a spherical shape more or less modified by gravity, adhesion, etc.; a globule: as, a drop of blood; a drop of laudanum.n. Something that resembles such a drop of liquid, as a pendent diamond ornament, an earring, or a glass pendant of a chandelier: specifically applied to varieties of sugar-plums and to medicated candies prepared in a similar form: as, lemon-drops; cough-drops.n. Specifically, in heraldry, the representation of a drop of liquid, usually globular below and tapering to a point above. Drops of different colors are considered as teardrops, drops of blood, etc., and are blazoned accordingly. See gutté.n. Any small quantity of liquid: as, he had not drunk a drop.n. Hence—4. A minute quantity of anything: as, he. has not a drop of honor, or of magnanimity.n. plural Any liquid medicine the dose of which consists of a certain number of drops.n. A piece of gut used by anglers on casting-lines.n. A Scotch unit of weight, the sixteenth part of an ounce, nearly equal to 30 grains English troy weight.n. The act of dropping; drip.n. In mech., a contrivance arranged so as to drop, fall, or hang from a higher position, or to lower objects. n. In architecture, one of the small cylinders or truncated cones depending from the mutule of the Doric cornice and the member upon the architrave immediately under the triglyph of the same order; a trunnel.n. In machinery, the interval between the base of a hanger and the shaft below.n. Nautical, the depth of a sail from head to foot in the middle: applied to courses only, hoist being applied to other square sails.n. In. fortification, the deepest part of a ditch in front of an embrasure or at the sides of a caponiere.n. In entomology, a small circular spot, clear or light, in a semi-transparent sur-face: used principally in describing the wings of Diptera.In archery, to fall short of the mark aimed at: said of an arrow.To show a tendency to lower the shoulders, due to weakness of the muscles: said of a horse.to drop asleep;die peacefully, and as if unobserved;become less regular; fail gradually: as, he began to drop off in his visits.To lose or part with: as, to drop a thousand dollars at poker.n. n. In electricity, a fall of potential.n. A steep slope.n. A disease of lettuce, caused by the fungus, Sclerotinia Libertiana.n. A fall or sudden vertical descent, as from a height or from a general level, either in space, or from some known position or condition, as in prices, values, temperature, etc.: as, an unexpected drop in the rate of discount; a drop in the price of steel.n. The distance through which, or the extent to which, anything drops: as, a drop of twenty feet; a drop of ten points in copper; a drop of twenty degrees in temperature in as many hours.n. In tabular work, a drop-line.n. In baseball, a ball so delivered by the pitcher that it shoots downward.n. In tennis, a ball so struck by the racket as to shoot sharply downward after crossing the net.n. A patent-leather ornament, pear-shaped or of other ornamental form, used on the face-straps and hip-straps of a harness.n. The newly born young of animals: most commonly used in speaking of sheep.