drop scene

1. Lit. & The at .: A permanent scene or curtain suspended on pulleys, which is let down to conceal the stage between the several pieces played, or the acts of any one piece; called also the Act-drop. 2. Fig .: Anything which acts as a screen. "I wished, if po ible, to take you behind the drop scene of the senses."-Tyndall: Fragments of Science, vii. 129. *drop-serene, s. A literal translation of the Latin gutta serena. [GUTTA.) Otherwise called Amaurosis (q. v.). "So thick a drop- serene hath quenched their orbs." Milton: P. L., iii. 25.