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English Dictionary: dropping by the DICT Development Group
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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
dropping
adj
  1. coming down freely under the influence of gravity; "the eerie whistle of dropping bombs"; "falling rain"
    Synonym(s): dropping, falling
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Drop \Drop\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Dropped}or {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. [bd]The trees drop balsam.[b8] --Creech.
  
                     The recording angel, as he wrote it down, dropped a
                     tear upon the word and blotted it out forever.
                                                                              --Sterne.
  
      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.
  
      3. To let go; to dismiss; to set aside; to have done with; to
            discontinue; to forsake; to give up; to omit.
  
                     They suddenly drop't the pursuit.      --S. Sharp.
  
                     That astonishing ease with which fine ladies drop
                     you and pick you up again.                  --Thackeray.
  
                     The connection had been dropped many years. -- Sir
                                                                              W. Scott.
  
                     Dropping the too rough H in Hell and Heaven.
                                                                              --Tennyson.
  
      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.
  
      5. To lower, as a curtain, or the muzzle of a gun, etc.
  
      6. To send, as a letter; as, please drop me a line, a letter,
            word.
  
      7. To give birth to; as, to drop a lamb.
  
      8. To cover with drops; to variegate; to bedrop.
  
                     Show to the sun their waved coats dropped with gold.
                                                                              --Milton.
  
      {To drop a vessel} (Naut.), to leave it astern in a race or a
            chase; to outsail it.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Dropping \Drop"ping\, n.
      1. The action of causing to drop or of letting drop; falling.
  
      2. pl. That which falls in drops; the excrement or dung of
            animals.
  
      {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.
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