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名詞

lifedrop (plural lifedrops)

1. (poetic, archaic) A drop of blood, seen as sustaining vitality.
   • 1823, Richard Alfred Davenport, New Elegant Extracts (page 221)

     Oh! had ye known how souls to souls impart / Their fire, or mix the lifedrops of the heart!

   • 1869, Felicia Hemans, The Poetical Works of Felicia Hemans (page 415)

     But where was I when thou didst fall beneath the fatal sword? / […] / And thou wert lying low the while, the lifedrops from thy heart / Fast gushing, like a mountain spring!