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Besprinkled with drops, or droplike spots. Bailey.

DROPSICAL
1. Diseased with dropsy; hydropical; tending to dropsy; as, a dropsical patient. 2. Of or pertaining to dropsy.
BAILEY
ballium bailey, OF. bail, baille, a palisade, baillier to inclose, 1. The outer wall of a feudal castle. 2. The space immediately within the outer wall of a castle or fortress. 3. A prison or court of justice; -- used in certain proper names; as,
DROPSICALNESS
State of being dropsical.
BESPRINKLER
One who, or that which, besprinkles.
DROPSIED
Diseased with drops. Shak.
DROPSY
An unnatural collection of serous fluid in any serous cavity of the body, or in the subcutaneous cellular tissue. Dunglison. (more info) idropisie, F. hydropisie, L. hydropisis, fr. Gr. Water, and cf.
BESPRINKLE
To sprinkle over; to scatter over. The bed besprinkles, and bedews the ground. Dryden.
BESPRINKLING
The act of sprinkling anything; a sprinkling over.
KNOCK-OUT DROPS
Drops of some drug put in one's drink to stupefy him for purpose of robbery, etc.
LADIES' EARDROPS
The small-flowered Fuchsia , and other closely related species.
PINEDROPS
A reddish herb of the United States, found parasitic on the roots of pine trees.
SUNDROPS
Any one of the several species of Kneiffia, esp. K. fruticosa , of the Evening-primrose family, having flowers that open by daylight.
HYDROPSY
See DROPSY