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membrancer of the xchequer during the reign of queen 
Elizabeth, founded and liberally endowed a free-fchool 
herein 1567. This town had a market on Thursdays; 
but, owing to its vicinity to Chederfield and Sheffield, 
the eft'eCl of it is totally done away. It has one annual 
fair, on the 25th of April. 
DRO'NISH, adj. Idle; fluggilh ; dreaming; lazy; in¬ 
dolent; unaftive : 
The dronijli monks, the fcorn and ffiame of manhood, 
Roufe and prepare once more to take poffeflion, 
To nedle in their ancient hives again. Rowe. 
DRO'NISHLY, adv. Slothfullv. 
DRO'NISHNESS,/. Slothfulnefs. 
DRONNE, a river of France, which rifes about fix 
miles from Thiviers, in the department of the Dordogne, 
and joins the I lie, near Coutras, in the department of 
the Gironde. 
DRONT'HEIM, a town of Norway, formerly the ca¬ 
pital, and the ufual refider.ee of the kings, fituated on a 
gulf of the North Sea, to which it gives name, at the 
mouth of the Nidder; nearly furrounded by the fea and 
lofty mountains, with a well-frequented feaport, but not 
capable of receiving large velfels, on account of rocks at 
the entrance of the harbour: it has neither ditches nor 
fortifications, but is enclofed by a wall, and defended by 
a caftle, by no means (Irong. It was taken by the Swedes, 
in 1658, after a fiege of a few days, but retaken by the 
Danes the fame year. It was ereCted into an archbifhopric 
by pope Eugenius III. Near it are mines of copper and 
diver. The principal exports are malls, fir-timber, cop¬ 
per, iron, pitch, tar, ftock-filh, (kins, potafh, Sec. In 
exchange, they receive and import fpices, wine, fait, 
brandy, corn, tobacco, cloth. See. The territory, or pro¬ 
vince, extends nearly 500 miles in length along the coaft 
of the North Sea ; the whole was ceded to Sweden in 
1658, but by the peace of Copenhagen was confirmed to 
Denmark. Lat. 63. 26. N. Ion. 10. 38. E. Greemvich. 
DROOG,/ [Indian.] A term in Ilindoodan for a fort 
eredled upon the fummit of a hill. They form the prin¬ 
cipal mode of defence on the borders of the different pro¬ 
vinces in India. 
To DROOP, v. n. [ droef. | Dut. forrow.] To languilh 
with forrow : 
I droop with ftruggling fpent; 
My thoughts are on my forrows bent. Sandys. 
To faint; to grow weak; to be difpirited.—I faw him 
ten days before he died, and obferved he began very 
much to droop and languilh. Swift. 
When fadlious rage to cruel exile drove 
The queen of beauty and the court of love, 
The mufes droop'd with their forfaken arts. Dryden. 
I’ll animate the foldiers drooping courage 
With love of freedom and contempt of life. Addifon. 
To fink; to lean downwards; commonly by weaknefs 
or grief: 
On her heav.’d bofom hung her drooping head, 
Which with a figh Ihe rais’d, and this Ihe faid. Pope. 
DROOP'INGLY, adv. Faintly; languifhingly. 
DROP,/, [bjtoppa, Sax.] A globule of moidure ; as 
much liquor as falls at once when there is not a continual 
dream: 
Meet we the med’eine of our country’s weal, 
And with him pour we, in our country’s purge, 
Each drop of us. Shahefpeare. 
Diamond hanging in the ear: 
The drops to thee, Brillante, we confign ; 
And, Momentilla, let the watch be thine. Pope. 
To DROP, v. a. [bpoppan, Sax.] To pour in drops or 
fingle globules.—His heavens lhall drop down dew. Deut. 
jtxxiii. 28,—-To let fall from a higher place ; 
D R O 
Others o’er chimney tops and turrets row, 
And drop their anchors on the meads below. D yd n. 
To let go ; to difmifs from the hand, or the pofleflion : 
Though I could 
With barefac’d power fweep him from my fight. 
And bid my will avouch it ; yet I mud not, 
For certain friends that are both his and mine, 
Whofe loves I may not drop. Shakcfpeare. 
To utter (lightly or cafually.— Drop not thy word againft 
the houfe of Ifaac. Amos. —To infert indire&ly, or by 
way of digreflion.—St. Paul’s epiftles contain nothing but 
points of Chriftian indruCtion, amongft which he feldom 
fails to drop in the great and diftinguifiiing doctrines of 
our holy religion. Locke. —To intermit; to ceafe.—Where 
the aift is unmanly or immoral, we ought to drop our 
hopes, or rather never entertain them. Collier. —To quit 
a mailer.—I have beat the hoof till I have worn out 
thefe (hoes in your fervice, and not one penny left me to 
buy more ; fo that you mud even excufe me if I drop you 
here. L’E/lrange. —To let go a dependant, or companion, 
without farther affociation.—She drilled him on to five- 
and-fifty, and will drop him in his old age, if die can find 
her account in another. Addifon .—To fuffer to vanifii, or 
come to nothing.—Opinions, like fafhions, always defeend 
from thofe of quality to the middle fort, and thence to 
the vulgar, where they are dropped and vanilh. Swift. — 
To bedrop ; to fpeckle; to variegate with fpots, Variis 
Jlellatus corpora guttis : 
Or fporting, with quick glance, 
Shew to the fun their wav’d coats, dropp'd with gold. 
Milton. 
To DROP, v. n. To fall in drops, or fingle globules: 
The quality of mercy is not drain’d ; 
It droppeth as the gentle rain from heaven 
Upon the place beneath. Shakcfpeare. 
To let drops fall; to difeharge itfelf in- drops.—The 
heavens dropped at the prefence of God. PJ'alm lxvii. 8. 
While cumber’d with my dropping cloaths I lay, 
The cruel nation, covetous of prey, 
Stain’d with my blood th’ unhofpitable coad. Dryden. 
To fall; to come from a higher place.—In every revolu¬ 
tion, approaching nearer and nearer to the fun, this comet 
mud at lad drop into the fun’s body. Ckeyne .— To fall 
fpontaneoufly: 
So may’d thou live, till, like ripe fruit, thou drop 
Into thy mother’s lap ; or be with eafe 
Gather’d, not hardily pluck’d. Milton. 
To fall in death ; to die fuddenly : 
It was your prefurmife, 
That in the dole of blows your fon might drop. Shakefp. 
To die.—Nothing, fays Seneca, fo foon reconciles us to 
the thoughts of our own death, as the profpect of one 
friend after another dropping round us. Digby .— Tq fink 
intofilence; to vanifii ; to come to nothing: a familiar 
phrafe.—I heard of threats occafioned by my verfes: I 
lent to acquaint them where I was to be found, and fo it 
dropped. Pope. —To come unexpectedly : 
Either you come not here, or, as you grace 
Some old acquaintance, drop into the place, 
Carelefs and qualmifii, with a yawning face. Dryden. 
To fall fliort of a mark.—Often it drops or overdioots by 
the difpreportions of didance or application. Collier. 
“ Many Drops make a fiiower.” The Germans fay, 
Nale pfennige machen einen thaler: Many pennies make a 
dollar. The Scots fay, Many a little makes a mickle. 
Intimating, that if by care and economy our Cavings are 
ever fo final 1 and trivial, they will in the end amount to 
fuch a fum as will amply reward our frugality. 
DROP SERENE,/ [gutta ferena, Lat.] A difeafe of 
the eye, proceeding from an infpiffation of the humours 
So 
