'Dropping' definitions:

Definition of 'dropping'

(from WordNet)
adjective
Coming down freely under the influence of gravity; "the eerie whistle of dropping bombs"; "falling rain" [syn: dropping, falling]

Definition of 'Dropping'

From: GCIDE
  • Drop \Drop\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Droppedor Dropt; p. pr. & vb. n. Dropping.] [OE. droppen, AS. dropan, v. i. See Drop, n.]
  • 1. To pour or let fall in drops; to pour in small globules; to distill. "The trees drop balsam." --Creech. [1913 Webster]
  • The recording angel, as he wrote it down, dropped a tear upon the word and blotted it out forever. --Sterne. [1913 Webster]
  • 2. To cause to fall in one portion, or by one motion, like a drop; to let fall; as, to drop a line in fishing; to drop a courtesy. [1913 Webster]
  • 3. To let go; to dismiss; to set aside; to have done with; to discontinue; to forsake; to give up; to omit. [1913 Webster]
  • They suddenly drop't the pursuit. --S. Sharp. [1913 Webster]
  • That astonishing ease with which fine ladies drop you and pick you up again. --Thackeray. [1913 Webster]
  • The connection had been dropped many years. -- Sir W. Scott. [1913 Webster]
  • Dropping the too rough H in Hell and Heaven. --Tennyson. [1913 Webster]
  • 4. To bestow or communicate by a suggestion; to let fall in an indirect, cautious, or gentle manner; as, to drop hint, a word of counsel, etc. [1913 Webster]
  • 5. To lower, as a curtain, or the muzzle of a gun, etc. [1913 Webster]
  • 6. To send, as a letter; as, please drop me a line, a letter, word. [1913 Webster]
  • 7. To give birth to; as, to drop a lamb. [1913 Webster]
  • 8. To cover with drops; to variegate; to bedrop. [1913 Webster]
  • Show to the sun their waved coats dropped with gold. --Milton. [1913 Webster]
  • To drop a vessel (Naut.), to leave it astern in a race or a chase; to outsail it. [1913 Webster]

Definition of 'Dropping'

From: GCIDE
  • Dropping \Drop"ping\, n.
  • 1. The action of causing to drop or of letting drop; falling. [1913 Webster]
  • 2. pl. That which falls in drops; the excrement or dung of animals; -- often used in the plural. [1913 Webster]
  • Dropping bottle, an instrument used to supply small quantities of a fluid to a test tube or other vessel.
  • Dropping fire, a continued irregular discharge of firearms.
  • Dropping tube, a tube for ejecting any liquid in drops. [1913 Webster]

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