ˈwater-drop
1. A drop or globule of water. Usually pl.
| 1593 Shakes. Rich. II, iv. i. 262 Oh, that I were a Mockerie, King of Snow, Standing before the Sunne of Bullingbrooke To melt my selfe away in Water-drops. 1606 ― Tr. & Cr. iii. ii. 193 When water drops haue worne the Stones of Troy. 1821 Byron Cain ii. i. 17 There will come An hour, when toss'd upon some water-drops, A man shall say to a man, ‘Believe in me, And walk the waters’. 1825 Scott Talism. xx, The devil a water-drop he gets here... We will teach the light-footed old infidel to be a good Christian, and drink wine of Cyprus. 1866 G. Macdonald Ann. Q. Neighb. iii, The water-wheel, mossy and green with ancient waterdrops. |
| Comb. 1899 tr. R. von Jaksch's Clin. Diagn. vi. (ed. 4) 211 The small shiny water-drop-like bodies. |
2. A tear, tear-drop.
| 1605 Shakes. Lear ii. iv. 280 Let not womens weapons, water drops, Staine my mans cheekes. 1818 Byron Ch. Har. iv. cxvi, Egeria!.. The mosses of thy fountain still are sprinkled With thine Elysian water-drops. 1825 Neal Bro. Jonathan II. 149 The large water-drop stood upon his lashes. |
3. Sc. = eavesdrip,
stillicide 2.
| 1818 Scott Hrt. Midl. xxvii, This is a' about a servitude of water-drap. Ibid., We are obligated to receive the natural water-drap of the superior tenement. |