2. Verb. (third-person singular of drop#Verb drop) ¹
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Definition of Drops
1. drop [v] - See also: drop
Medical Definition of Drops
1. A popular term for a medicine taken in doses measured by drops's, usually a tincture, or applied by dropping, as an eyewash. (05 Mar 2000)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Drops
Literary usage of Drops
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman (1921)
"TRICKLE drops TRICKLE drops! my blue veins leaving! O drops of me ! trickle, slow
drops, Candid from me falling, drip, bleeding drops, From wounds made to ..."
2. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London by Royal Society (Great Britain) (1879)
"I. " The Influence of Electricity on Colliding Water drops. ... In its normal
state a jet resolves itself into drops, which even before passing the summit, ..."
3. American Journal of Physiology by American Physiological Society (1887- ). (1913)
"2 drops in 2 min. 11 drops in 2 min. 10 drops in 2 min. 9 drops in 2 min. 8 drops
in 2 min. 13 drops in 2 min. 20 drops in 2 min. ..."
4. The Theory of Sound by John William Strutt Rayleigh (1896)
"Under these circumstances there are few or no collisions, as the drops have room to
... At a higher obliquity the drops begin to be scattered out of the ..."
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