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- English Word Droop Definition To proceed downward, or toward a close; to decline.
- English Word Droop Definition To let droop or sink.
- English Word Droop Definition A drooping; as, a droop of the eye.
- English Word Drooped Definition of Droop
- English Word Drooper Definition One who, or that which, droops.
- English Word Drooping Definition of Droop
- English Word Droopingly Definition In a drooping manner.
- English Word Drop Definition 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.
- English Word Drop Definition 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 (sometimes medicated), or a kind of shot or slug.
- English Word Drop Definition Same as Gutta.
- English Word Drop Definition Any small pendent ornament.
- English Word Drop Definition Whatever is arranged to drop, hang, or fall from an elevated position; also, a contrivance for lowering something
- English Word Drop Definition 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.
- English Word Drop Definition A machine for lowering heavy weights, as packages, coal wagons, etc., to a ship's deck.
- English Word Drop Definition A contrivance for temporarily lowering a gas jet.
- English Word Drop Definition A curtain which drops or falls in front of the stage of a theater, etc.
- English Word Drop Definition A drop press or drop hammer.
- English Word Drop Definition The distance of the axis of a shaft below the base of a hanger.
- English Word Drop Definition Any medicine the dose of which is measured by drops; as, lavender drops.
- English Word Drop Definition The depth of a square sail; -- generally applied to the courses only.