droppingn.

Brit.

/ˈdrɒpɪŋ/, U.S.

/ˈdrɑpɪŋ/

Etymology: < drop v. + -ing suffix¹.

The action of drop v.

a. The action of falling or letting fall in drops.

ΘΚΠ

the world > matter > liquid > liquid flow > action or process of dripping or falling in drops > [noun]

droppingc1000

drippingc1440

stilling1530

trickling1629

dropa1637

drip1675

drip feed1899

c1000 Ags. Ps. (1835) lxiv. 11 Þurh dropunge deawes and renes.

c1386 G. Chaucer Melibeus ⁋120 Thre thynges dryuen a man out of his hous, that is to seyn Smoke, droppyng of Reyn, and wikked wyues.

1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 215/2 Droppyng of lycour, distillation.

1608 E. Topsell Hist. Serpents 275 The watering or dropping of the eyes.

1611 Bible (King James) Prov. xxvii. 15 A continual dropping in a very rainy day and a contentious woman are alike.

1860 E. B. Pusey Minor Prophets 308 Forbidding God's word as a wearisome dropping.

b. See quot. 1823.

ΚΠ

1823 G. Crabb Universal 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.

ΘΚΠ

the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > downward motion > falling > [noun] > dropping or falling vertically

droppingc1315

c1315 [implied in: Shoreham 17 So habbeth..Crystnynge, Her signe, droppynge in the water. (at drop v. 13a)].

1599 H. Buttes Dyets Dry Dinner sig. D4 Plantes..that are subject..to his leaves-dropping.

1874 C. A. Johns Brit. Birds 180 It begins to descend..by a series of droppings with intervals of simple hovering.

3. The action of discontinuing or abandoning.

ΘΚΠ

the world > action or operation > completing > non-completion > [noun] > giving up an enterprise

sinking1705

dropping1813

the mind > possession > relinquishing > casting or laying aside > [noun]

everting1568

deposition1577

discarding1600

excussion1607

dispatch1608

reposition1617

absolution1655

depositing1667

discardment1713

discardurea1762

cashiering1826

dropping1859

discard1906

junking1911

shedding1945

load-shedding1947

1813 Examiner 10 May 300/1 The dropping of such a work..would be a loss to the country.

1859 J. Cunningham Church Hist. Scotl. II. x. 409 A dropping of the method of queries in processes of error.

4. Falling, dropping off, dying.

ΘΚΠ

the world > life > death > [noun]

hensithOE

qualmOE

bale-sithea1000

endingc1000

fallOE

forthsitheOE

soulingOE

life's endOE

deathOE

hethensithc1200

last end?c1225

forthfarec1275

dying1297

finec1300

partingc1300

endc1305

deceasec1330

departc1330

starving1340

passingc1350

latter enda1382

obita1382

perishingc1384

carrion1387

departing1388

finishmentc1400

trespassement14..

passing forthc1410

sesse1417

cess1419

fininga1425

resolutiona1425

departisona1450

passagea1450

departmentc1450

consummation?a1475

dormition1483

debt to (also of) naturea1513

dissolutionc1522

expirationa1530

funeral?a1534

change1543

departure1558

last change1574

transmigration1576

dissolving1577

shaking of the sheets?1577

departance1579

deceasure1580

mortality1582

deceasing1591

waftage1592

launching1599

quietus1603

doom1609

expire1612

expiring1612

period1613

defunctiona1616

Lethea1616

fail1623

dismissiona1631

set1635

passa1645

disanimation1646

suffering1651

abition1656

Passovera1662

latter (last) end1670

finis1682

exitus1706

perch1722

demission1735

demise1753

translation1760

transit1764

dropping1768

expiry1790

departal1823

finish1826

homegoing1866

the last (also final, great) round-up1879

snuffing1922

fade-out1924

thirty1929

appointment in Samarra1934

dirt nap1981

big chill1987

1768 Woman of Honor III. 240 By the unexpected dropping of two elder brothers, he is..come to an estate.

5. concrete.

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.)

ΘΚΠ

the world > life > the body > secretory organs > secretion > mucus > [noun]

phlegmc1250

rheuma1398

dropping1398

gleimc1440

horeness1495

flobbage1535

mucus1597

pituita1598

the world > matter > liquid > liquid flow > action or process of dripping or falling in drops > [noun] > liquid which

dropping1398

water dropa1475

drippinga1635

drip1704

the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > downward motion > falling > [noun] > dropping or falling vertically > that which drops

dropping1398

1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomew de Glanville De Proprietatibus Rerum (1495) iii. xix. 66 They that haue droppyng and rewme fallyng to the brest.

c1430 Pilgr. Lyf Manhode (1869) iii. lxi. 172 This kowuele i haue set vnder for to take the droppinges.

1585 T. Washington tr. N. de Nicolay Nauigations Turkie ii. vi. 36 The Mastic is the teare or droppings of the Lentiscus.

1663 B. Gerbier Counsel to Builders 12 The Rain and Droppings of the Thatch.

1837 N. Whittock et al. Compl. Bk. Trades (1842) 348 Rape oil, which obtains the term ‘droppings’.

1861 T. A. Trollope La Beata II. xiv. 124 Collecting the droppings from the great wax candles.

b. plural. The waste material cast off from a machine in certain processes of textile manufacture.

ΚΠ

1902 W. I. Hannan Textile Fibres 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 plural.)

ΘΚΠ

the world > animals > animal body > general parts > substance or secretion and excretion > [noun] > dung

sharnc825

thostc1000

dungOE

dirta1300

croteysa1425

lessesa1425

grotesc1450

pillc1450

fumishing1527

trattles1547

fiants1575

dunging1582

dropping1596

soil1607

soiling1610

stercoration1694

pellet1884

mire1922

pat1937

scat1950

society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > parts of building > roof > [noun] > eaves

eavesa1000

eavesing?c1225

easinga1400

eaving1579

dropping1596

French eaves1634

eave1823

lop-eaves1880

1596 J. Harington New Disc. Aiax sig. D4 Do you not..tell of springing a pheasant & a partridge, & find them out by their dropping?

1830 J. Baxter Libr. Agric. & Hort. Knowl. 355 Fresh horse droppings..from the stables.

1890 Pall Mall Gaz. 29 Sept. 5/1 The only combustible we had was the droppings of the wild yaks.

†7. The eaves from which water drops. Obsolete.

ΚΠ

1597 J. Gerard Herball ii. 262 I founde it vnder the dropping of the bishops house at Rochester.

c1710 C. Fiennes Diary (1888) 181 The meeteing house..being under the Dropings of ye Cathedrall.

Compounds

C1. General attributive. (In sense 6.)

dropping board n. (also droppings board)

ΚΠ

1916 Jrnl. Agric. (N.Z.) 21 Aug. 100 Those who are not prepared to pay regular attention to cleaning are advised not to have dropping boards.

1950 N.Z. Jrnl. Agric. June 531/3 Droppings boards or wired-in droppings pits are coming back into use again [in hen-houses].

dropping pit n.

C2.

dropping-bottle n. (see quot. 1864).

ΚΠ

1827 M. Faraday Chem. Manip. vi. 185 It is proper to have a smaller dropping-bottle ready for use.

1864 Webster's Amer. Dict. Eng. Lang. Dropping-bottle, an instrument used to supply small quantities of a fluid to a test-tube or other vessel.

1889 Internat. Ann. Anthonys Photogr. Bull. 427 A combined minim-measure and dropping-bottle.

dropping field n. a place prepared for the dropping of supplies, troops, bombs, etc., from aircraft.

ΚΠ

1942 Times Weekly 9 Sept. 2 He had to walk two miles back to the ‘dropping’ field.

† dropping-meal adv. Obsolete = drop-meal adv.

ΘΚΠ

the world > relative properties > wholeness > incompleteness > part of whole > [adverb] > in separated pieces > by pieces or piecemeal > drop by drop

drop-mealc1000

dropping-meal1398

droppinglyc1400

stillatim1668

dropwise1673

guttatim1694

1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomew de Glanville De Proprietatibus Rerum (1495) vii. lv. 268 Stranguria whan a man pissyth wyth dyffyculte droppinge mele.

† dropping-pan n. Obsolete = dripping-pan n.

ΘΚΠ

the world > food and drink > food > food manufacture and preparation > equipment for food preparation > cooking vessel or pot > [noun] > dripping-pan

dripping-pan1463

dropping-pan1672

1463 in S. Tymms Wills & Inventories Bury St. Edmunds (1850) 23 A droppyng panne.

1672 A. Haig Inventory in J. Russell Haigs of Bemersyde (1881) 475 A great fraying pan and a great droping pan.

dropping-point n. = dropping field n.

ΚΠ

1947 J. Mulgan Report on Experience 80 They ran to a schedule and knew the dropping-points as intimately as their aerodromes.

dropping-tube n. (see quot.).

ΚΠ

1883 New Sydenham Soc. Lexicon Dropping tube, the tubulated stopper of the Dropping-bottle.

dropping-well n. a well formed by the dropping of water from above.

ΚΠ

1652 J. French (title) The Yorkshire Spaw; or a Treatise of four famous Medicinal Wells..the Dropping, or Petrifying Well.

1850 Ld. Tennyson In Memoriam lxxxi. 113 Laburnums, dropping-wells of fire.

dropping zone n. = dropping field n.

ΚΠ

1945 By 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.

1956 J. Tickell Moon Squadron viii. 83 In ten minutes, we would be over the DZ or dropping zone.

1968 A. J. Jackson Blackburn Aircraft 469 The rear doors were removed for a demonstration over an Army dropping zone at Amesbury, Wilts.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1897; most recently modified version published online June 2022).

droppingadj.

Etymology: < drop v. + -ing suffix².

a. Falling in drops; distilling.

ΘΚΠ

the world > matter > liquid > liquid flow > action or process of dripping or falling in drops > [adjective]

dropping?a1400

distillingc1485

stillinga1542

distillantc1550

drivelling1570

stillant1610

dribbling1627

drilling1634

stillatitious1656

?a1400 Morte Arth. 4054 Derefulle dredlesse with drowppande teris.

?a1600 ( R. Sempill Legend Bischop St. Androis in J. Cranstoun Satirical Poems Reformation (1891) I. xlv. Pref. 349 Fra they gat the drapping grise they wanted.

1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost iv. 630 Those Blossoms also, and those dropping Gumms.

1793 R. Burns Poems (ed. 2) II. 172 Frae my een the drapping rains Maun ever flow.

b. Having moisture falling off in drops, dripping. Of the weather: rainy, wet.

ΘΚΠ

the world > matter > liquid > condition of being or making wet > [adjective] > dripping

droppinga1415

dropping wet1605

the world > matter > liquid > liquid flow > action or process of dripping or falling in drops > [adjective] > having liquid falling off in drops

droppinga1415

dripping1783

adrip1830

crystal-dropping1933

dribbly1951

the world > the earth > weather and the atmosphere > weather > wet weather > [adjective] > wet (of weather, place, or time) > rainy

rainyOE

rainingc1400

droppinga1415

pluvious?1440

rainful1484

weeping1600

droppy1635

slattering1648

dripping1699

drippy1818

softish1855

feechie1975

a1415 J. Lydgate Temple Glas 394 Oft also, aftir a dropping mone, The weddir clereþ.

1587 L. Mascall Bk. Cattell: Oxen (1627) 13 If your cattell haue dropping Nostrils.

1648 T. Gage Eng.-Amer. xv. 105 To wipe their dropping brows.

1775 L. Shaw Hist. Moray 151 A misty May and a dropping June.

1790 A. Wilson Poems 11 From ev'ry bush and ev'ry dropping tree.

c. quasi-adv. in dropping wet.

ΘΚΠ

the world > matter > liquid > condition of being or making wet > [adjective] > dripping

droppinga1415

dropping wet1605

the world > matter > liquid > condition of being or making wet > condition of being or making very wet > [adjective] > enough to be wrung out

wringing wet1570

dropping wet1605

dripping wet1835

1605 J. Sylvester tr. G. de S. Du Bartas Deuine Weekes & Wks. i. v. 146 Dropping wet..I returne to land Laden with spoiles.

1770 J. Wesley Jrnl. 16 Apr. We..got into a Scotch mist, and were dropping wet.

2. Falling vertically, falling to the ground.

ΘΚΠ

the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > downward motion > falling > [adjective] > dropping or falling vertically

dropping1718

1718 A. Pope tr. Homer Iliad IV. xiv. 546 The dropping Head first tumbled to the Plain.

1832 Ld. Tennyson On a Mourner 9 The swamp, where hums the dropping snipe.

1892 Pall Mall Gaz. 25 Mar. 2/1 The ‘warm corner’ is alive with rising and dropping birds.

3. Falling detachedly, desultory, not continuous.

ΚΠ

1708 London Gaz. No. 4467/3 The Major..and a Captain..were kill'd, the former by a dropping Shot.

1814 W. Scott Waverley II. xiii. 206 A few dropping shots fired about the spot.

1890 Cent. Mag. July 447/2 A dropping fire of musketry.

4. Falling in value, or in any scale.

ΘΚΠ

the world > relative properties > quantity > decrease or reduction in quantity, amount, or degree > [adjective]

shrinking?a1400

welkinga1400

moderativec1487

thinning1551

wanzing1571

decreasing1591

restricting1606

lessening1611

waning1632

assuaging1651

limiting1656

mitigating1749

diminishing1793

decrescent1811

shrivelling1849

dropping1894

scanting1916

society > trade and finance > monetary value > [adjective] > falling in value

depreciating1777

dropping1894

1894 Times 23 Apr. 13/3 Small occupiers..were..benefited by dropping prices.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1897; most recently modified version published online June 2019).

单词	dropping
释义	droppingn. Brit. /ˈdrɒpɪŋ/, U.S. /ˈdrɑpɪŋ/ Etymology: < drop v. + -ing suffix¹. The action of drop v. 1. a. The action of falling or letting fall in drops. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > liquid > liquid flow > action or process of dripping or falling in drops > [noun] droppingc1000 drippingc1440 stilling1530 trickling1629 dropa1637 drip1675 drip feed1899 c1000 Ags. Ps. (1835) lxiv. 11 Þurh dropunge deawes and renes. c1386 G. Chaucer Melibeus ⁋120 Thre thynges dryuen a man out of his hous, that is to seyn Smoke, droppyng of Reyn, and wikked wyues. 1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 215/2 Droppyng of lycour, distillation. 1608 E. Topsell Hist. Serpents 275 The watering or dropping of the eyes. 1611 Bible (King James) Prov. xxvii. 15 A continual dropping in a very rainy day and a contentious woman are alike. View more context for this quotation 1860 E. B. Pusey Minor Prophets 308 Forbidding God's word as a wearisome dropping. b. See quot. 1823. ΚΠ 1823 G. Crabb Universal 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. ΘΚΠ the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > downward motion > falling > [noun] > dropping or falling vertically droppingc1315 c1315 [implied in: Shoreham 17 So habbeth..Crystnynge, Her signe, droppynge in the water. (at drop v. 13a)]. 1599 H. Buttes Dyets Dry Dinner sig. D4 Plantes..that are subject..to his leaves-dropping. 1874 C. A. Johns Brit. Birds 180 It begins to descend..by a series of droppings with intervals of simple hovering. 3. The action of discontinuing or abandoning. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > completing > non-completion > [noun] > giving up an enterprise sinking1705 dropping1813 the mind > possession > relinquishing > casting or laying aside > [noun] everting1568 deposition1577 discarding1600 excussion1607 dispatch1608 reposition1617 absolution1655 depositing1667 discardment1713 discardurea1762 cashiering1826 dropping1859 discard1906 junking1911 shedding1945 load-shedding1947 1813 Examiner 10 May 300/1 The dropping of such a work..would be a loss to the country. 1859 J. Cunningham Church Hist. Scotl. II. x. 409 A dropping of the method of queries in processes of error. 4. Falling, dropping off, dying. ΘΚΠ the world > life > death > [noun] hensithOE qualmOE bale-sithea1000 endingc1000 fallOE forthsitheOE soulingOE life's endOE deathOE hethensithc1200 last end?c1225 forthfarec1275 dying1297 finec1300 partingc1300 endc1305 deceasec1330 departc1330 starving1340 passingc1350 latter enda1382 obita1382 perishingc1384 carrion1387 departing1388 finishmentc1400 trespassement14.. passing forthc1410 sesse1417 cess1419 fininga1425 resolutiona1425 departisona1450 passagea1450 departmentc1450 consummation?a1475 dormition1483 debt to (also of) naturea1513 dissolutionc1522 expirationa1530 funeral?a1534 change1543 departure1558 last change1574 transmigration1576 dissolving1577 shaking of the sheets?1577 departance1579 deceasure1580 mortality1582 deceasing1591 waftage1592 launching1599 quietus1603 doom1609 expire1612 expiring1612 period1613 defunctiona1616 Lethea1616 fail1623 dismissiona1631 set1635 passa1645 disanimation1646 suffering1651 abition1656 Passovera1662 latter (last) end1670 finis1682 exitus1706 perch1722 demission1735 demise1753 translation1760 transit1764 dropping1768 expiry1790 departal1823 finish1826 homegoing1866 the last (also final, great) round-up1879 snuffing1922 fade-out1924 thirty1929 appointment in Samarra1934 dirt nap1981 big chill1987 1768 Woman of Honor III. 240 By the unexpected dropping of two elder brothers, he is..come to an estate. 5. concrete. 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.) ΘΚΠ the world > life > the body > secretory organs > secretion > mucus > [noun] phlegmc1250 rheuma1398 dropping1398 gleimc1440 horeness1495 flobbage1535 mucus1597 pituita1598 the world > matter > liquid > liquid flow > action or process of dripping or falling in drops > [noun] > liquid which dropping1398 water dropa1475 drippinga1635 drip1704 the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > downward motion > falling > [noun] > dropping or falling vertically > that which drops dropping1398 1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomew de Glanville De Proprietatibus Rerum (1495) iii. xix. 66 They that haue droppyng and rewme fallyng to the brest. c1430 Pilgr. Lyf Manhode (1869) iii. lxi. 172 This kowuele i haue set vnder for to take the droppinges. 1585 T. Washington tr. N. de Nicolay Nauigations Turkie ii. vi. 36 The Mastic is the teare or droppings of the Lentiscus. 1663 B. Gerbier Counsel to Builders 12 The Rain and Droppings of the Thatch. 1837 N. Whittock et al. Compl. Bk. Trades (1842) 348 Rape oil, which obtains the term ‘droppings’. 1861 T. A. Trollope La Beata II. xiv. 124 Collecting the droppings from the great wax candles. b. plural. The waste material cast off from a machine in certain processes of textile manufacture. ΚΠ 1902 W. I. Hannan Textile Fibres 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 plural.) ΘΚΠ the world > animals > animal body > general parts > substance or secretion and excretion > [noun] > dung sharnc825 thostc1000 dungOE dirta1300 croteysa1425 lessesa1425 grotesc1450 pillc1450 fumishing1527 trattles1547 fiants1575 dunging1582 dropping1596 soil1607 soiling1610 stercoration1694 pellet1884 mire1922 pat1937 scat1950 society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > parts of building > roof > [noun] > eaves eavesa1000 eavesing?c1225 easinga1400 eaving1579 dropping1596 French eaves1634 eave1823 lop-eaves1880 1596 J. Harington New Disc. Aiax sig. D4 Do you not..tell of springing a pheasant & a partridge, & find them out by their dropping? 1830 J. Baxter Libr. Agric. & Hort. Knowl. 355 Fresh horse droppings..from the stables. 1890 Pall Mall Gaz. 29 Sept. 5/1 The only combustible we had was the droppings of the wild yaks. †7. The eaves from which water drops. Obsolete. ΚΠ 1597 J. Gerard Herball ii. 262 I founde it vnder the dropping of the bishops house at Rochester. c1710 C. Fiennes Diary (1888) 181 The meeteing house..being under the Dropings of ye Cathedrall. Compounds C1. General attributive. (In sense 6.) dropping board n. (also droppings board) ΚΠ 1916 Jrnl. Agric. (N.Z.) 21 Aug. 100 Those who are not prepared to pay regular attention to cleaning are advised not to have dropping boards. 1950 N.Z. Jrnl. Agric. June 531/3 Droppings boards or wired-in droppings pits are coming back into use again [in hen-houses]. dropping pit n. C2. dropping-bottle n. (see quot. 1864). ΚΠ 1827 M. Faraday Chem. Manip. vi. 185 It is proper to have a smaller dropping-bottle ready for use. 1864 Webster's Amer. Dict. Eng. Lang. Dropping-bottle, an instrument used to supply small quantities of a fluid to a test-tube or other vessel. 1889 Internat. Ann. Anthonys Photogr. Bull. 427 A combined minim-measure and dropping-bottle. dropping field n. a place prepared for the dropping of supplies, troops, bombs, etc., from aircraft. ΚΠ 1942 Times Weekly 9 Sept. 2 He had to walk two miles back to the ‘dropping’ field. † dropping-meal adv. Obsolete = drop-meal adv. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > wholeness > incompleteness > part of whole > [adverb] > in separated pieces > by pieces or piecemeal > drop by drop drop-mealc1000 dropping-meal1398 droppinglyc1400 stillatim1668 dropwise1673 guttatim1694 1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomew de Glanville De Proprietatibus Rerum (1495) vii. lv. 268 Stranguria whan a man pissyth wyth dyffyculte droppinge mele. † dropping-pan n. Obsolete = dripping-pan n. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > food manufacture and preparation > equipment for food preparation > cooking vessel or pot > [noun] > dripping-pan dripping-pan1463 dropping-pan1672 1463 in S. Tymms Wills & Inventories Bury St. Edmunds (1850) 23 A droppyng panne. 1672 A. Haig Inventory in J. Russell Haigs of Bemersyde (1881) 475 A great fraying pan and a great droping pan. dropping-point n. = dropping field n. ΚΠ 1947 J. Mulgan Report on Experience 80 They ran to a schedule and knew the dropping-points as intimately as their aerodromes. dropping-tube n. (see quot.). ΚΠ 1883 New Sydenham Soc. Lexicon Dropping tube, the tubulated stopper of the Dropping-bottle. dropping-well n. a well formed by the dropping of water from above. ΚΠ 1652 J. French (title) The Yorkshire Spaw; or a Treatise of four famous Medicinal Wells..the Dropping, or Petrifying Well. 1850 Ld. Tennyson In Memoriam lxxxi. 113 Laburnums, dropping-wells of fire. View more context for this quotation dropping zone n. = dropping field n. ΚΠ 1945 By 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. 1956 J. Tickell Moon Squadron viii. 83 In ten minutes, we would be over the DZ or dropping zone. 1968 A. J. Jackson Blackburn Aircraft 469 The rear doors were removed for a demonstration over an Army dropping zone at Amesbury, Wilts. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1897; most recently modified version published online June 2022). droppingadj. Etymology: < drop v. + -ing suffix². 1. a. Falling in drops; distilling. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > liquid > liquid flow > action or process of dripping or falling in drops > [adjective] dropping?a1400 distillingc1485 stillinga1542 distillantc1550 drivelling1570 stillant1610 dribbling1627 drilling1634 stillatitious1656 ?a1400 Morte Arth. 4054 Derefulle dredlesse with drowppande teris. ?a1600 ( R. Sempill Legend Bischop St. Androis in J. Cranstoun Satirical Poems Reformation (1891) I. xlv. Pref. 349 Fra they gat the drapping grise they wanted. 1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost iv. 630 Those Blossoms also, and those dropping Gumms. View more context for this quotation 1793 R. Burns Poems (ed. 2) II. 172 Frae my een the drapping rains Maun ever flow. b. Having moisture falling off in drops, dripping. Of the weather: rainy, wet. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > liquid > condition of being or making wet > [adjective] > dripping droppinga1415 dropping wet1605 the world > matter > liquid > liquid flow > action or process of dripping or falling in drops > [adjective] > having liquid falling off in drops droppinga1415 dripping1783 adrip1830 crystal-dropping1933 dribbly1951 the world > the earth > weather and the atmosphere > weather > wet weather > [adjective] > wet (of weather, place, or time) > rainy rainyOE rainyOE rainingc1400 droppinga1415 pluvious?1440 rainful1484 weeping1600 droppy1635 slattering1648 dripping1699 drippy1818 softish1855 feechie1975 a1415 J. Lydgate Temple Glas 394 Oft also, aftir a dropping mone, The weddir clereþ. 1587 L. Mascall Bk. Cattell: Oxen (1627) 13 If your cattell haue dropping Nostrils. 1648 T. Gage Eng.-Amer. xv. 105 To wipe their dropping brows. 1775 L. Shaw Hist. Moray 151 A misty May and a dropping June. 1790 A. Wilson Poems 11 From ev'ry bush and ev'ry dropping tree. c. quasi-adv. in dropping wet. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > liquid > condition of being or making wet > [adjective] > dripping droppinga1415 dropping wet1605 the world > matter > liquid > condition of being or making wet > condition of being or making very wet > [adjective] > enough to be wrung out wringing wet1570 dropping wet1605 dripping wet1835 1605 J. Sylvester tr. G. de S. Du Bartas Deuine Weekes & Wks. i. v. 146 Dropping wet..I returne to land Laden with spoiles. 1770 J. Wesley Jrnl. 16 Apr. We..got into a Scotch mist, and were dropping wet. 2. Falling vertically, falling to the ground. ΘΚΠ the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > downward motion > falling > [adjective] > dropping or falling vertically dropping1718 1718 A. Pope tr. Homer Iliad IV. xiv. 546 The dropping Head first tumbled to the Plain. 1832 Ld. Tennyson On a Mourner 9 The swamp, where hums the dropping snipe. 1892 Pall Mall Gaz. 25 Mar. 2/1 The ‘warm corner’ is alive with rising and dropping birds. 3. Falling detachedly, desultory, not continuous. ΚΠ 1708 London Gaz. No. 4467/3 The Major..and a Captain..were kill'd, the former by a dropping Shot. 1814 W. Scott Waverley II. xiii. 206 A few dropping shots fired about the spot. View more context for this quotation 1890 Cent. Mag. July 447/2 A dropping fire of musketry. 4. Falling in value, or in any scale. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > quantity > decrease or reduction in quantity, amount, or degree > [adjective] shrinking?a1400 welkinga1400 moderativec1487 thinning1551 wanzing1571 decreasing1591 restricting1606 lessening1611 waning1632 assuaging1651 limiting1656 mitigating1749 diminishing1793 decrescent1811 shrivelling1849 dropping1894 scanting1916 society > trade and finance > monetary value > [adjective] > falling in value depreciating1777 dropping1894 1894 Times 23 Apr. 13/3 Small occupiers..were..benefited by dropping prices. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1897; most recently modified version published online June 2019). < n.c1000adj.?a1400
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