Crossword clues for dropt
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Drop \Drop\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Droppedor Dropt; p. pr. & vb. n. Dropping.] [OE. droppen, AS. dropan, v. i. See Drop, n.]
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To pour or let fall in drops; to pour in small globules; to distill. ``The trees drop balsam.''
--Creech.The recording angel, as he wrote it down, dropped a tear upon the word and blotted it out forever.
--Sterne. 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.
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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. 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.
To lower, as a curtain, or the muzzle of a gun, etc.
To send, as a letter; as, please drop me a line, a letter, word.
To give birth to; as, to drop a lamb.
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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.
Dropt \Dropt\,
imp. & p. p. of Drop, v.
--G. Eliot.
Wiktionary
vb. (en-past of drop nodot=1); (obsolete spelling of dropped lang=en nocap=1)
Wikipedia
The Dropt is a river in Aquitaine, France. It is a right tributary to the Garonne.
Usage examples of "dropt".
Wenman, and William Strachey, and probably composed by Strachey, after speaking of the bountiful capacity of the country, the writer exclaims: "Only let me truly acknowledge there are not one hundred or two of deboisht hands, dropt forth by year after year, with penury and leysure, ill provided for before they come, and worse governed when they are here, men of such distempered bodies and infected minds, whom no examples daily before their eyes, either of goodness or punishment, can deterr from their habituall impieties, or terrifie from a shameful death, that must be the carpenters and workmen in this so glorious a building.