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  1. noun The smallest quantity of liquid heavy enough to fall in a spherical mass. See Table at measurement.
  2. noun A small quantity of a substance.
  3. noun Liquid medicine administered in drops.
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  • All the colonization, both animal and plant, had been from the science realm, crossing over. —  Phaze Doubt
  • The last five hundred meters of a drop were the most interesting. —  Genellan- Planetfall
  • Instead, they say that much of the drop was artificially induced. —  CNN Transcript Dec 10, 2009
  • He smiled as he looked up. —  Prince of Chaos
  • Alas, what a drop is there! —  Through the Magic Door
 

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Etymologies (3)

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  1. Middle English droppe, from Old English dropa; see dhreu- in Indo-European roots.

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  1. Early modern English also droppe; from Middle English droppen, from Anglo-Saxon droppan, also dropian and drop-petian, droppetan = Dutch droppen = German tropfen = Swedish droppa, drop; secondary forms of the orig. strong verb, Anglo-Saxon*dreópan (preterit* dreáp, plural* drupon, past participle * dropen; occurring, if at all, only in doubtful passages), Middle English drepen (= Old Saxon driopan = OFries. driapa = Dutch druipen = Old High German triufan, Middle High German G. triefen = Icelandic drjūpa = Norwegian drjupa), drop, whence also ult. drop, n., drip, v., dribble, etc., and (through Icelandic) droop, v.
  2. Early modern English also droppe; from Middle English drope, from Anglo-Saxon dropa (= Old Saxon dropo = Dutch drop = Middle Low German drope, drape, Low German druppen, drapen = Old High German tropfo, troffo, Middle High German tropfe, German tropfen = Icelandic dropi = Swedish droppe = Danish draabc), a drop, from Anglo-Saxon, etc., * dreópen, past participle *dropen, drop: see drop, v.
 

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