资料来源 : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Drop \Drop\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Dropped}or {Dropt}; p. pr. &
   vb. n. {Dropping}.] [OE. droppen, AS. dropan, v. i. See
   {Drop}, n.]
   1. To pour or let fall in drops; to pour in small globules;
      to distill. ``The trees drop balsam.'' --Creech.

            The recording angel, as he wrote it down, dropped a
            tear upon the word and blotted it out forever.
                                                  --Sterne.

   2. To cause to fall in one portion, or by one motion, like a
      drop; to let fall; as, to drop a line in fishing; to drop
      a courtesy.

   3. To let go; to dismiss; to set aside; to have done with; to
      discontinue; to forsake; to give up; to omit.

            They suddenly drop't the pursuit.     --S. Sharp.

            That astonishing ease with which fine ladies drop
            you and pick you up again.            --Thackeray.

            The connection had been dropped many years. -- Sir
                                                  W. Scott.

            Dropping the too rough H in Hell and Heaven.
                                                  --Tennyson.

   4. To bestow or communicate by a suggestion; to let fall in
      an indirect, cautious, or gentle manner; as, to drop hint,
      a word of counsel, etc.

   5. To lower, as a curtain, or the muzzle of a gun, etc.

   6. To send, as a letter; as, please drop me a line, a letter,
      word.

   7. To give birth to; as, to drop a lamb.

   8. To cover with drops; to variegate; to bedrop.

            Show to the sun their waved coats dropped with gold.
                                                  --Milton.

   {To drop a vessel} (Naut.), to leave it astern in a race or a
      chase; to outsail it.