Show to the sun their waved coats dropped with gold.
Milton.
To drop a vessel (Naut.), to leave it astern in a race or a chase; to outsail it.
Drop, v. i. 1. To fall in drops.
The kindly dew drops from the higher tree,
And wets the little plants that lowly dwell.
Spenser.
2. To fall, in general, literally or figuratively; as, ripe fruit drops from a tree; wise words drop from the lips.
Mutilations of which the meaning has dropped out of memory.
H. Spencer.
When the sound of dropping nuts is heard.
Bryant.