ˈheat-drop
Usually in pl.: a. A few drops of rain ushering in a hot day. Also fig., e.g. of tears. b. Drops of sweat.
| 1651 C. Cartwright Cert. Relig. i. 55 No more considerable in respect of the whole, then so many heat-drops of error, can stand in competition with a cloud of witnesses. 1663 Cowley Cutter Coleman St. iv. i, Nothing at their Command beside their Tears, And we, vain Men, whom such Heat-drops deceive. 1839 Bailey Festus viii. (1848) 92 Weep if you can, and call the tears heat-drops. 1887 Baring-Gould Red Spider xxii. (1888) 166 Her brow was pearled with heat-drops. |