dropper (droper)

[ It causes a Westerner to laugh to see small grain being cut with a dropper or a self-raking reaper. Sci . Amer ., N. S., LV. 373. And observe, that if your droppers be larger than, or even as large as, your stretcher, you will not be able to throw a good line. I. Walton, Complete Angler, ii. 5, note. dropping (drop'ing), n. [ A continual dropping in a very rainy day and a conten tious woman are alike. Prov. xxvii. 15. 2. That which drops or is dropped: generally in the plural. Like eager droppings into milk. Shak., Hamlet, i. 5. All the Countrey is overgrowne with trees, whose drop pings continually turneth their gra e to weeds, by reason of the rancknes of the ground, which would soone be amended by good husbandry. Capt. John Smith , True Travels, I. 121. Specifically-3. pl . Dung: especially said of the dung of fowls: as, the droppings of the henroost. -4. In gla - making , one of the lumps or globules formed in the gla by the glazing of the clay cover of the melting-ve el and its combination with the volatilized alkalis. The crude gla thus formed on the cover drops into the molten gla in the ve el, rendering it defective. dropping-bottle (drop'ing-bot"l), An instru dropping supplying small quantities of water to test-tubes, etc.; an edulcorator. dropping-tube (drop'ing-tūb), n. Same as dropper, 1 ( a ).