Emily Dickinson Lexicon

drop (-ped, -ping, -t), v. [OE dropian.] (webplay: body, cease, coach, come, companion, dew, diamond, die, ear, earrings, eaves, fall, fashion, God, gold, grave, hanging, heavens, leave, lower, moment, nothing, old, possession, pour, rain, ripe, sail, sea, spherical, stone, suddenly, utter, word).

1. Collapse; faint; pass out; lose consciousness.
2. Spill; tumble; fall spontaneously; (see 1 Samuel 14:26).
3. Suddenly become.
4. Descend; dive; plunge; plummet; sink down; move lower; fall into oblivion; [fig.] hit the bottom.
5. Adjust; ebb; relax; conform; come to be; arrive unexpectedly.
6. Change; transform without warning; [fig.] die; fade; pass away.
7. Beam down; shine towards the earth.
8. Utter slightly, briefly or casually; insert indirectly; (see Job 29:22).
9. Release purposely; allow to fall; (see Deuteronomy 33:28).
10. Quit; let go of; lose; give up; discard; dismiss; lay aside.
11. Move away from; fall away.
12. Lower down; hand down; let drop; [fig.] forget.
13. Descend upon; distill; (see Deuteronomy 32:2; Isaiah 45:8).
14. Place upon; leave with; set down.