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noun

dropper n.

One who, or that which, drops. Specif.: (Fishing) A fly that drops from the leader above the bob or end fly.

A dropping tube, usually of glass or plastic with a narrow opening at the tip and a rubber bulb at the top which can be squeezed to control intake or outflow of the fluid. The word is used in combinations with obvious significance, as eye dropper, medicine dropper, etc.

Synonyms: eye dropper.

(Mining) A branch vein which drops off from, or leaves, the main lode.

(Zool.) A dog which suddenly drops upon the ground when it sights game, formerly a common, and still an occasional, habit of the setter.

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Etymology of 'Dropper'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Dropper" Quotes from Famous Books

... suspected document at the particular points under examination will dissolve the sizing applied by the forger. If held to the light the thinning will show. The water may be applied with a small brush or a medicine dropper. Water slightly warmed may be used with good ...

— Disputed Handwriting • Jerome B. Lavay

... to which we were reduced. He no sooner heard the story, than he assured us we had been grievously imposed upon by a couple of sharpers, who were associates; and that this polite, honest, friendly, humane person, who had treated us so civilly, was no other than a rascally money-dropper, we made it his business to decoy strangers in that manner to one of his own haunts, where an accomplice or two were always waiting to assist in pillaging the prey he had run down. Here the good man recounted a great many stories of people who has been seduced, cheated, pilfered, beat—nay, ...

— The Adventures of Roderick Random • Tobias Smollett

... dandruff. A method of removing dandruff which is highly recommended is that of rubbing olive oil into the scalp and later of removing this with a cleansing shampoo. The olive oil is placed on the scalp with a medicine dropper and thoroughly rubbed in with the fingers. After three or four hours the hair is washed with soap and water (any good toilet soap will do) and rinsed with pure water. The hair is then dried, the surplus water being removed with a ...

— Physiology and Hygiene for Secondary Schools • Francis M. Walters, A.M.

... the hour I saw the light, And morning has gone, noontide has gone, now soon must draw on the night. I heard the young lads in the office talking about me to-day, I did not mean to play the part of eaves-dropper in their way, They were wondering who in the name of fate, I would find for my heir, Wondering why I never was married, there are some so proud and fair, They knew I could have for the asking, and so they went on with their ...

— Victor Roy, A Masonic Poem • Harriet Annie Wilkins

... from her swoon the White Linen Nurse stared out with hazy perplexity at last from her dimpling white pillows to see the Senior Surgeon standing amazingly at the guest-room bureau with a glass and a medicine-dropper in his hand, and the Little Crippled Girl hanging apparently by her narrow peaked chin across the foot-board of ...

— The White Linen Nurse • Eleanor Hallowell Abbott