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ˈmeldrop Sc. and north. dial.
Also 5 myl-, 9 mildrop.
[a. ON. mél-dropi drop or foam from a horse's mouth.]
1. A drop of mucus at the nose; also, the foam which falls from a horse's mouth (see Jamieson).
c1480Henryson Test. Cres. 158 Out of his nois the meldrop [v.r. myldrop] fast can rin. 1829Brockett N.C. Wds., Mell-drop, the least offensive species of mucus from the nose.
2. A dew drop.
1802T. Paine Writ. (Conway) III. 390 Birthday addresses..should not creep along like mildrops down a cabbage leaf, but roll in a torrent of poetical metaphor. |