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dropa

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Wright's OE grammar
§106; §256; §401;
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  • In ꝥ ilce scip nán regnes dropa ne gefeóll

    in navem eamdem una pluviae gutta non cecidit,

      Gr. D. 196, 6.
  • Ꝥ nǽfre in þǽm londum regnes dropa ne cwóme nunquam in his locis pluuiam adire, Nar. 28, 5.

    Gutta,

    ꝥ ys hunigswéte dropa,
      Angl. viii. 299, 48.
  • Mid dropum

    imbribus,

      An. Ox. 646.
  • Geondgoten mid swátes dropum,

      Hml. S. 23 b, 233.
humour, choler
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  • Cwyld tógeneálǽhð oð ðæne dropan

    pestilentia adpropinquabit usque ad coleram;

    surfeiting turneth to choler (Ecclus.
      37, 30), Scint. 170, 2.
  • Genihtsumnysse blódes and dropena and manega seócnyssa metta of rúmgyfulnysse wé þoliað

    abundantiam sanguinis et colerarum (cf. colera, umores, Corp. Gl. H. 34, 619) et plurimas egritudines escarum largitate patimur,

      56, 4.
gout. (? v.
N. E. D. drop 11.) See passages under
in Dict.
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v. ge-, mǽl-dropa.
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