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Dropping   /drˈɑpɪŋ/   Listen
noun
Dropping  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; often used in the plural.
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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"Dropping" Quotes from Famous Books



... pro-Austrian. "I remarked," wrote Lord Granville to Lord Canning at this time, "that in the Lords, whenever I said anything in favour of the Emperor or the Italians, the House became nearly sea-sick, while they cheered anything the other way, as if pearls were dropping from ...
— Lady John Russell • Desmond MacCarthy and Agatha Russell

... you may be hurt!" cried Mrs. Bunker, as she heard a little sob from Mun Bun. "I must come up and see what it is all about," and, dropping her sewing, ...
— Six Little Bunkers at Grandma Bell's • Laura Lee Hope

... complete surprise, the captain reeled backward, dropping the rifle as he did so in an effort to maintain his balance. Before he could do this, however, he had gone over the edge of the bank, and after him went the bear. Down that steep incline man and beast rapidly ploughed ...
— Rod of the Lone Patrol • H. A. Cody

... Trescott farm, now covered with factories, cottages, and railway tracks, leaving Lynhurst Park off to our left, curving with the turnings of Brushy Creek Valley, through which our engineers had found such easy grades, dropping the straggling suburbs of the city behind us, we flew along the rails in the waning twilight of this grewsome day. On the windward windows and the roof rattled fierce flights of sleet and showers of cinders from the engine. Occasionally ...
— Aladdin & Co. - A Romance of Yankee Magic • Herbert Quick

... did not hurt her, but the laugh with which her misfortune was greeted by Fanny roused a very wicked spirit in her heart, and dropping the pail, which she had picked up, ...
— Proud and Lazy - A Story for Little Folks • Oliver Optic


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