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ice drop en · NOUN

Etymology

From ice + drop.

Meanings

1. (Philippines) Frozen fruit juice, flavored sugar water or the like, on a stick, of a size to be one serving; a popsicle.
   • Envorcing regulations regarding approval of applications for license to operate ice drop factories and sale of ice drops 1922 June 27, “Philippine Health Service”, in Official Gazette, volume 20, number 76, page 1327:
   • Papa also “conscripted” a new “army” of ice cream and ice drop ambulant peddlers. 2020, Bartolomea Agatep-Enrico, Under His Wings:
2. (dated, obsolete) The small vesicles, filled with fluid, occurring on the stems and leaves of certain plants of the family Aizoaceae.
   • The cuticle of a plum, and of some other fruits, has a kind of powder upon it; and the cuticle of the ice-plant has on it a number of little clear spots, which look like ice-drops. 1842, Anne Pratt, The Pictorial Catechism of Botany, page 4:
3. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see ice, drop.; a drop of ice.
   • But then, as it were on a ſudden, the face of nature is changed; for though a little before, water thrown up in the air would deſcend in ice drops, and any metal graſped faſt in one's hand would ſtick to the ſkin and make it bliſter, 1752, Awnsham Churchill, A Collection of Voyages and Travels, Some Now First Printed from Original Manuscripts, Others Now First Published in English. In Eight Volumes. With a General Preface, Giving an Account of the Progress of Trade and Navigation, from Its First Beginning, page 241:
   • Every needle of the drooping pine tassels is weighted with an ice drop. 1907 February, Mary C. Dickerson, “The Pageant of Nature”, in Country Life, volume 11, page 554:

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