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Fall :: Fall (n.) The act of falling; a dropping or descending be the force of gravity; descent; as, a fall from a horse, or from the yard of ship..

Aventurine :: Aventurine (n.) A kind of glass, containing gold-colored spangles. It was produced in the first place by the accidental (par aventure) dropping of some brass filings into a pot of melted glass..

Apheresis :: Apheresis (n.) The dropping of a letter or syllable from the beginning of a word; e. g., cute for acute..

Kedge :: Kedge (n.) To move (a vessel) by carrying out a kedge in a boat, dropping it overboard, and hauling the vessel up to it..

Sub- :: Sub- () A prefix signifying under, below, beneath, and hence often, in an inferior position or degree, in an imperfect or partial state, as in subscribe, substruct, subserve, subject, subordinate, subacid, subastringent, subgranular, suborn. Sub- in Latin compounds often becomes sum- before m, sur before r, and regularly becomes suc-, suf-, sug-, and sup- before c, f, g, and p respectively. Before c, p, and t it sometimes takes form sus- (by the dropping of b from a collateral form, subs-)..

Dropping :: Dropping (n.) The action of causing to drop or of letting drop; falling.

Ceromancy :: Ceromancy (n.) Divination by dropping melted wax in water.

Monotropa :: Monotropa (n.) A genus of parasitic or saprophytic plants including the Indian pipe and pine sap. The name alludes to the dropping end of the stem.

Machicolation :: Machicolation (n.) An opening between the corbels which support a projecting parapet, or in the floor of a gallery or the roof of a portal, shooting or dropping missiles upen assailants attacking the base of the walls. Also, the construction of such defenses, in general, when of this character. See Illusts. of Battlement and Castle..

Dropper :: Dropper (n.) A dropping tube.

Rupert''s Drop :: Rupert's drop () A kind of glass drop with a long tail, made by dropping melted glass into water. It is remarkable for bursting into fragments when the surface is scratched or the tail broken; -- so called from Prince Rupert, nephew of Charles I., by whom they were first brought to England. Called also Rupert's ball, and glass tear..

Duck :: Duck (v. t.) A sudden inclination of the bead or dropping of the person, resembling the motion of a duck in water..

Ecthlipsis :: Ecthlipsis (n.) The dropping out or suppression from a word of a consonant, with or without a vowel..

Stalagmitic :: Stalagmite (n.) A deposit more or less resembling an inverted stalactite, formed by calcareous water dropping on the floors of caverns; hence, a similar deposit of other material..

Aphetic :: Aphetic (a.) Shortened by dropping a letter or a syllable from the beginning of a word; as, an aphetic word or form..

Tath :: Tath (n.) Dung, or droppings of cattle..

Drop :: Drop (n.) Act of dropping; sudden fall or descent.

Eavesdropping :: Eavesdropping (n.) The habit of lurking about dwelling houses, and other places where persons meet fro private intercourse, secretly listening to what is said, and then tattling it abroad. The offense is indictable at common law..

Clubhaul :: Clubhaul (v. t.) To put on the other tack by dropping the lee anchor as soon as the wind is out of the sails (which brings the vessel's head to the wind), and by cutting the cable as soon as she pays off on the other tack. Clubhauling is attempted only in an exigency..

Nod :: Nod (n.) A dropping or bending forward of the upper oart or top of anything.

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