dropping

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

• noun Something dropped.
• noun The excrement of animals.

from The Century Dictionary.

• noun The act of falling in drops; a falling.
• noun That which drops or is dropped: generally in the plural.
• noun Specifically
• noun plural Dung: especially said of the dung of fowls: as, the droppings of the henroost.
• noun In glass-making, one of the lumps or glob-ules formed in the glass by the glazing of the clay cover of the melting-vessel and its com-bination with the volatilized alkalis.
• noun plural The waste material which drops under a machine, as in the process of scutching cotton.
• noun A disease of cattle commonly known as milk fever, somewhat analogous to puerperal fever in women: so called because the cow drops to the ground when sick.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

• noun The action of causing to drop or of letting drop; falling.
• noun That which falls in drops; the excrement or dung of animals; -- often used in the plural.
• noun an instrument used to supply small quantities of a fluid to a test tube or other vessel.
• noun a continued irregular discharge of firearms.
• noun a tube for ejecting any liquid in drops.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

• verb Present participle of drop.
• noun The act of something that drops or falls.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

• adjective coming down freely under the influence of gravity