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To fall drop or move in any way with a sudden splash or slap as on the surface of water...
Plumbism
A diseased condition produced by the absorption of lead common among workers in this metal or in its compounds as among painters typesetters etc It is characterized by various symptoms as lead colic lead line and wrist drop See under Colic Lead and Wrist...
Raindrop
A drop of rain...
VerbarReplum
The framework of some pods as the cress which remains after the valves drop off...
Eaves
Eaves. The edge of a roof, built so as to project over the walls of a house in order that the rain may drop therefrom to the ground instead of running down the wall....
Hire-purchase agreement
Hire-purchase agreement, Hire-purchase agreements are executor contracts under which the goods are let on hire and the hirer has an option to purchase in accordance with the terms of the agreement. These types of agreements were originally entered into between the dealer and the customer and the dealer used to extend credit to the customer. But as hire-purchase scheme gained in popularity and in size, the dealers who were not endowed with liberal amount of working capital found it difficult to extend the scheme to many customers. Then the financiers came into the picture. The finance company would buy the goods from the dealer and let them to the customer under hire-purchase agreement. The dealer would deliver the goods to the customer who would then drop out of the transaction leaving the finance company to collect installments directly from the customer. Under hire-purchase agreement, the hirer is simply paying for the use of the goods and for the option to purchase them. The finance...
Still-birth
Still-birth, means foetal death where a product of conception has attained at least the prescribed period of gestation. [Registration of Births and Deaths Act, 1969 (18 of 1969), s. 2(1)(g)][Latin fr. stilla 'a drop' + cadere 'to fall']...
Oleograph
The form or figure assumed by a drop of oil when placed upon water or some other liquid with which it does not mix...
Discolor
To alter the natural hue or color of to change to a different color to stain to tinge as a drop of wine will discolor water silver is discolored by sea water...
Dewdrop
A drop of dew...
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