Word Meanings - DROP - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Any medicine the dose of which is measured by drops; as, lavender drops. (more info) OHG. tropo, G. tropfen, Icel. dropi, Sw. droppe; and Fr. AS. dreópan to drip, drop; akin to OS. driopan, D. druipen, OHG. triofan, G. 1. The quantity of fluid

Additional info about word: DROP

Any medicine the dose of which is measured by drops; as, lavender drops. (more info) OHG. tropo, G. tropfen, Icel. dropi, Sw. droppe; and Fr. AS. dreópan to drip, drop; akin to OS. driopan, D. druipen, OHG. triofan, G. 1. 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. 2. 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 , or a kind of shot or slug. Same as Gutta. Any small pendent ornament. 4. 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. The distance of the axis of a shaft below the base of a hanger. 5. pl.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of DROP)

• Alight
• Perch
• drop
• descend
• dismount
• Desist
• Cease
• stop
• discontinue
• abstain
• forbear
• leave off
• Distil
• Drop
• emanate
• drip
• percolate
• Drain Draw
• strain
• exhaust
• empty
• dry
• Driblet
• dole
• instalment
• scrap
• morsel
• bit
• particle

Related words: (words related to DROP)

• PERCOLATE
  To cause to pass through fine interstices, as a liquor; to filter; to strain. Sir M. Hale.
• STRAINABLE
  1. Capable of being strained. 2. Violent in action. Holinshed.
• DRAINE
  The missel thrush.
• LEAVE-TAKING
  Taking of leave; parting compliments. Shak.
• DISTILLABLE
  Capable of being distilled; especially, capable of being distilled without chemical change or decomposition; as, alcohol is distillable; olive oil is not distillable.
• DISTILLATION
  The separation of the volatile parts of a substance from the more fixed; specifically, the operation of driving off gas or vapor from volatile liquids or solids, by heat in a retort or still, and the condensation of the products as far as possible
• LEAVED
  Bearing, or having, a leaf or leaves; having folds; -- used in combination; as, a four-leaved clover; a two-leaved gate; long- leaved.
• DISCONTINUE
  To interrupt the continuance of; to intermit, as a practice or habit; to put an end to; to cause to cease; to cease using, to stop; to leave off. Set up their conventicles again, which had been discontinued. Bp. Burnet. I have discontinued school
• SCRAPING
  1. The act of scraping; the act or process of making even, or reducing to the proper form, by means of a scraper. 2. Something scraped off; that which is separated from a substance, or is collected by scraping; as, the scraping of the street.
• STRAINING
  from Strain. Straining piece , a short piece of timber in a truss, used to maintain the ends of struts or rafters, and keep them from slipping. See Illust. of Queen-post.
• EXHAUSTION
  An ancient geometrical method in which an exhaustive process was employed. It was nearly equivalent to the modern method of limits. Note: The method of exhaustions was applied to great variety of propositions, pertaining to rectifications
• ABSTAIN
  To hold one's self aloof; to forbear or refrain voluntarily, and especially from an indulgence of the passions or appetites; -- with from. Not a few abstained from voting. Macaulay. Who abstains from meat that is not gaunt Shak. Syn. -- To refrain;
• DESCENDING
  Of or pertaining to descent; moving downwards. Descending constellations or signs , those through which the planets descent toward the south. -- Descending node , that point in a planet's orbit where it intersects the ecliptic in passing
• DESCENDENT
  Descending; falling; proceeding from an ancestor or source. More than mortal grace Speaks thee descendent of ethereal race. Pope.
• PERCHANCE
  By chance; perhaps; peradventure.
• LEAVENING
  1. The act of making light, or causing to ferment, by means of leaven. 2. That which leavens or makes light. Bacon.
• DISTILLATORY
  Belonging to, or used in, distilling; as, distillatory vessels. -- n.
• DESCENDIBILITY
  The quality of being descendible; capability of being transmitted from ancestors; as, the descendibility of an estate.
• EXHAUSTIVE
  Serving or tending to exhaust; exhibiting all the facts or arguments; as, an exhaustive method. Ex*haust"ive*ly, adv.
• EXHAUSTURE
  Exhaustion. Wraxall.
• BELEAVE
  To leave or to be left. May.
• DRIBBLET; DRIBLET
  A small piece or part; a small sum; a small quantity of money in making up a sum; as, the money was paid in dribblets. When made up in dribblets, as they could, their best securities were at an interest of twelve per cent. Burke.
• RESTRAINABLE
  Capable of being restrained; controllable. Sir T. Browne.
• DISTRAINER
  See DISTRAINOR
• HALF-STRAINED
  Half-bred; imperfect. "A half-strained villain." Dryden.
• CLEAVER
  One who cleaves, or that which cleaves; especially, a butcher's instrument for cutting animal bodies into joints or pieces.
• WATER DRAIN
  A drain or channel for draining off water.
• UNREMORSELESS
  Utterly remorseless. "Unremorseless death." Cowley.