DROP, n. G.
1. A small portion of any fluid in a spherical form, which falls at once from any body, or a globule of any fluid which is pendent, as if about to fall a small portion of water falling in rain as a drop of water a drop of blood a drop of laudanum.
2. A diamond hanging from the ear an earring something hanging in the form of a drop.
3. A very small quantity of liquor as, he had not drank a drop.
4. The part of a gallows which sustains the criminal before he is executed, and which is suddenly dropped.