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▪ I. dropping, vbl. n.|ˈdrɒpɪŋ|
[f. drop v. + -ing1.]
The action of the vb. drop.
1. a. The action of falling or letting fall in drops.
c1000Ags. Ps. (Th.) lxiv. 11 Þurh dropunge deawes and renes. c1386Chaucer Melib. ⁋120 Thre thynges dryuen a man out of his hous, that is to seyn Smoke, droppyng of Reyn, and wikked wyues. 1530Palsgr. 215/2 Droppyng of lycour, distillation. 1607Topsell Serpents (1658) 789 The watering or dropping of the Eyes. 1611Bible Prov. xxvii. 15 A continual dropping in a very rainy day and a contentious woman are alike. 1860Pusey Min. Proph. 308 Forbidding God's word as a wearisome dropping.
b. See quot.
1823Crabb Technol. Dict., Dropping (Vet.), a name given to that disease in a cow, which is analogous to the puerperal fever in women.
2. The action of falling or descending vertically; also, of letting anything fall.
c1315Shoreham 17 So habbeth..Crystnynge, Her signe, droppynge in the water. 1599H. Buttes Dyet's drie Dinner D iv, Plantes..that are subject..to his leaves-dropping. 1874Johns Brit. Birds 180 It begins to descend..by a series of droppings with intervals of simple hovering.
3. The action of discontinuing or abandoning.
1813Examiner 10 May 300/1 The dropping of such a work..would be a loss to the country. 1859J. Cunningham Ch. Hist. Scot. II. x. 409 A dropping of the method of queries in processes of error.
4. Falling, dropping off, dying.
1768Woman of Honor III. 240 By the unexpected dropping of two elder brothers, he is..come to an estate.
5. concr.
a. That which drops or falls in drops, as rain, melting wax, etc.; the fat that drops from roasting meat, dripping. (In quot. 1398 = rheum.)
1398Trevisa Barth. De P.R. iii. xix. (1495) 66 They that haue droppyng and rewme fallyng to the brest. c1430Pilgr. Lyf Manhode iii. lxi. (1869) 172 This kowuele i haue set vnder for to take the droppinges. 1585T. Washington tr. Nicholay's Voy. ii. vi. 36 The Mastic is the teare or droppings of the Lentiscus. 1663Gerbier Counsel 11 The Rain and Droppings of the Thatch. 1837Whittock Compl. Bk. Trades (1842) 348 Rape oil, which obtains the term ‘droppings’. 1861T. A. Trollope La Beata II. xiv. 124 Collecting the droppings from the great wax candles.
b. pl. The waste material cast off from a machine in certain processes of textile manufacture.
1902W. I. Hannan Textile Fibres of Commerce 115 The primary impurities from each of the two processes of opening and scutching are known as the droppings.
6. Dung of animals. (Now only pl.)
1596Harington Metam. Ajax D iv, Do you not..tell of springing a pheasant and a partridge, and find them out by their dropping? 1846J. Baxter Libr. Pract. Agric. (ed. 4) II. 80 Fresh droppings from the stables. 1890Pall Mall G. 29 Sept. 5/1 The only combustible we had was the droppings of the wild yaks.
†7. The eaves from which water drops. Obs.
1597Gerarde Herbal ii. xlvii. §2. 262, I founde it vnder the dropping of the bishops house at Rochester. c1710C. Fiennes Diary (1888) 181 The meeteing house..being under the Dropings of ye Cathedrall.
8. attrib. and Comb., as (sense 6) dropping(s) board, dropping pit; dropping-bottle (see quot. 1864); dropping field, -point, zone, a place prepared for the dropping of supplies, troops, bombs, etc., from aircraft; † dropping-meal adv. = drop-meal; † dropping-pan = dripping-pan; dropping-tube (see quot.); dropping-well, a well formed by the dropping of water from above.
1916N.Z. Jrnl. Agric. 21 Aug. 100 Those who are not prepared to pay regular attention to cleaning are advised not to have *dropping boards. 1950Ibid. June 531/3 Droppings boards or wired-in droppings pits are coming back into use again [in hen-houses].
1827Faraday Chem. Manip. vi. 185 It is proper to have a smaller *dropping-bottle ready for use. 1864Webster, Dropping-bottle, an instrument used to supply small quantities of a fluid to a test-tube or other vessel. 1889Anthony's Photogr. Bull. II. 427 A combined minim-measure and dropping-bottle.
1942Times Weekly 9 Sept. 2 He had to walk two miles back to the ‘*dropping’ field.
1398Trevisa Barth. De P.R. vii. lv. (1495) 268 Stranguria whan a man pissyth wyth dyffyculte *droppinge mele.
1463Bury Wills (Camden) 23 A *droppyng panne. 1672A. Haig Inventory in J. Russell Haigs (1881) 475 A great fraying pan and a great droping pan.
1947J. Mulgan Report on Experience 80 They ran to a schedule and knew the *dropping-points as intimately as their aerodromes.
1883Syd. Soc. Lex., *Dropping tube, the tubulated stopper of the Dropping-bottle.
1652J. French (title) The Yorkshire Spaw; or a Treatise of four famous Medicinal Wells..the *Dropping, or Petrifying Well. 1850Tennyson In Mem. lxxxiii, Laburnums, dropping-wells of fire.
1945By Air to Battle (H.M.S.O.) 39 It was left to the battalion commander..to share with the pilot the responsibility of choosing the *dropping zone from the air. 1956J. Tickell Moon Squadron viii. 83 In ten minutes, we would be over the DZ or dropping zone. 1968A. J. Jackson Blackburn Aircraft 469 The rear doors were removed for a demonstration over an Army dropping zone at Amesbury, Wilts.
▪ II. dropping, ppl. a.
[f. as prec. + -ing2.]
1. Falling in drops; distilling.
a1400Morte Arth. 4054 Derefulle dredlesse with drowppande teris. 1583Leg. Bp. St. Andrews Pref. 71 in Satir. Poems Reform. xlv, Fra they gat the drapping grise they wanted. 1667Milton P.L. iv. 630 Those Blossoms also, and those dropping Gumms. 1790Burns Elegy Henderson xi, Frae my een the drapping rains Maun ever flow.
b. Having moisture falling off in drops, dripping. Of the weather: rainy, wet.
a1415Lydg. Temple of Glas 394 Oft also, aftir a dropping mone, The weddir clereþ. 1587L. Mascall Govt. Cattle, Oxen (1627) 13 If your cattell haue dropping Nostrils. 1648Gage West Ind. xv. 105 To wipe their dropping brows. 1775Shaw Hist. Moray 151 (Jam.) A misty May, and a dropping June. 1790A. Wilson Morning Poet. Wks. 1846 2 From every bush and every dropping tree.
c. quasi-adv. in dropping wet.
1591Sylvester Du Bartas i. v. 201 Dropping wet..I return to land Laden with spoyls. 1770Wesley Jrnl. 16 Apr., We..got into a Scotch mist, and were dropping wet.
2. Falling vertically, falling to the ground.
1715–20Pope Iliad xiv. 546 The dropping head first tumbled to the plain. 1832Tennyson On a Mourner 9 The swamp, where hums the dropping snipe. 1892Pall Mall G. 25 Mar. 2/1 The ‘warm corner’ is alive with rising and dropping birds.
3. Falling detachedly, desultory, not continuous.
1708Lond. Gaz. No. 4467/3 The Major..and a Captain..were kill'd, the former by a dropping Shot. 1814Scott Wav. xxxvi, A few dropping shots fired about the spot. 1890Century Mag. July 447/2 A dropping fire of musketry.
4. Falling in value, or in any scale.
1894Times 23 Apr. 13/3 Small occupiers..were..benefited by dropping prices. |