Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A drop of water; specifically, a tear.

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Examples

  • “The devil a water-drop he gets here,” said a third.

    The Talisman 2008

  • The track “Lowid” provides swiftly plucked guitar amid water-drop percussion, along with the fuzzy comfort of static dissonance and an occasional vocal utterance.

    Disquiet » Spanish StutterPop MP3 EP 2005

  • Suddenly I remembered that I had not looked at the water-drop for several days.

    The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 01, No. 03, January, 1858 Various

  • Instead of presenting the revolting aspect of the coarser creatures, that live and struggle and die, in the more easily resolvable portions of the water-drop, she was fair and delicate and of surpassing beauty.

    The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 01, No. 03, January, 1858 Various

  • The slide was still there, -- but, great heavens! the water-drop had vanished!

    The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 01, No. 03, January, 1858 Various

  • Yet my credulity was so strengthened by his candor, that I accepted without hesitation the torture of the water-drop when we came to it.

    The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 20, No. 117, July, 1867. Various

  • Doubtless if for an hour we were to take the place of the individual chemical atoms of Oxygen or of Hydrogen, we could have no inkling of the physical properties of the water-drop they together form.

    Married Love: or, Love in Marriage 1918

  • They would not stay to give him an answer, but danced away one over another; till at last, that the sweet child might not be grieved, a water-drop stopped behind a piece of rock.

    Good Stories for Holidays Frances Jenkins Olcott 1917

  • So said the water-drop to the child, but scarcely had she finished her story, when the root of a For-Get-Me-Not caught the drop and sucked her in, that she might become a floweret, and twinkle brightly as a blue star on the green firmament of earth.

    Good Stories for Holidays Frances Jenkins Olcott 1917

  • So said the water-drop to the child, but scarcely had she finished her story, when the root of a

    Good Stories for Great Holidays 1914

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