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[Eng. drop; -le .] So fine that there are no appreciable drops. "Ye that now cool her fleece with drop le damp." Cole ridge: The Picture. drop-lět, s. [Eng. drop, and dim in. suff. -let.] A little drop. "Thou abhorr'dst in us our human griefs, Scorned our brine's flow, and those our droplets , which From niggard nature fall."- Shakesp .: Timon, v. 4. *drop-ling, s. [Eng. drop , and dim. suff. -ling .] A little drop. "It is a dropling of the Eternal Fount." Sylvester: Quatrains of Pibrac , st. xiii. dropped, dropt, pa . par . or a. [DROP, v.] drop-pēr, s . [Eng. drop ; -er.] I. Ord. Lang.: One who or that which drops. II. Technically : 1. Agric.: One form of a reaping-machine in which the grain falls upon a slatted platform, (1) To fall in drops or small portions, as a liquid, which is dropped occasionally to deposit the gavel (2) To let drops fall, to drip. *(3) To weep. "With an auspicious and a dropping eye." Shakesp.: Hamlet, i. 2. *(4) To discharge itself in drops. "The heavens also dropped at the presence of God." Psalm 1xviii. 8. (5) To fall; to descend to the ground suddenly. (6) To fall from over-ripene . "So mayst thou live, till, like ripe fruit, thou drop Into thy mother's lap."- Milton: P. L., xi. 535, 536. (7) To collapse suddenly, to fall together. "Down dropt the breeze, the sails dropt down." Cole ridge: Ancient Mariner , ii. (8) To be lowered or depre ed; to sink, to fall IMG:content-0566.png:[blocks in formation] "The mother beautiful was brought, Then dropt the child asleep." Long fellow: Two Locks of Hair. (3) To fall away from or desert a cause. (4) To be uttered, to fall gently. "I grieve that, in your presence, from my tongue Too much of frailty hath already dropped." Words worth: Excursion, bk. iii. (5) To cease, to be dismi ed. "While question rose And answer flowed, the fetters of reserve Dropped from our minds." Words worth: Excursion, bk. viii. chin, bench; go, gem; thin, this; upon the ground. (Sieberling's patent.) Simultaneously with the bringing into action of the dropper, a cut-off is brought down to arrest the falling grain till the platform is reinstated. 2. Mining : A divaricating vein, which leaves the main lode; or a lode which a umes a vertical direction.