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noun

dropper n.

One who, or that which, drops. Specif.: (Fishing) A fly that drops from the leader above the bob or end fly.

A dropping tube, usually of glass or plastic with a narrow opening at the tip and a rubber bulb at the top which can be squeezed to control intake or outflow of the fluid. The word is used in combinations with obvious significance, as eye dropper, medicine dropper, etc.

Synonyms: eye dropper.

(Mining) A branch vein which drops off from, or leaves, the main lode.

(Zool.) A dog which suddenly drops upon the ground when it sights game, formerly a common, and still an occasional, habit of the setter.

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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Dropper" Quotes from Famous Books

... opened, and a murmur of voices told him that Rose and Helene had returned together from an afternoon drive. Through the lightly draped open window their conversation, distinctly heard, forced him into the position of an unintentional eaves-dropper. There seemed at first no reason why he should withdraw, and when the reason became apparent he found it impossible to ...

— An Algonquin Maiden - A Romance of the Early Days of Upper Canada • G. Mercer Adam

... than he assured us we had been grievously imposed upon by a couple of sharpers, who were associates; and that this polite, honest, friendly, humane person, who had treated us so civilly, was no other than a rascally money-dropper, we made it his business to decoy strangers in that manner to one of his own haunts, where an accomplice or two were always waiting to assist in pillaging the prey he had run down. Here the good ...

— The Adventures of Roderick Random • Tobias Smollett

... expression. There are some who fail to recognize a quack advertisement when it meets their eye, from a defect in perception similar to that which incapacitates certain persons from distinguishing a pocket-book dropper, or a bunco steerer, or a billiard sharp, or a ...

— Danger! A True History of a Great City's Wiles and Temptations • William Howe

... institutions in Washington, for Barney knew his New York. In an ex-saloon on Sixth Avenue, which nominally sold only the soft drinks permitted by the wise men of the Capital, Barney leaned at his ease upon the bar and remarked: "Give me some of the real stuff, Tim, and forget that eye-dropper the boss bought you last week." Barney had a drink of the real stuff, and then another drink, in the measuring of neither of which had ...

— Children of the Whirlwind • Leroy Scott

... by dropping saturated solution of boracic acid into each eye with a medicine dropper. Separate pieces of gauze or cotton ...

— The Mother and Her Child • William S. Sadler

Words linked to "Dropper" : drop, pipette, eye dropper, name dropper, pipet