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Quotation dates: 1755
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†DROP, n.2 Freemasonry: an uninitiated person.Sc. 1755 Scots Mag. (March) 135:
This is meant of their oath, under which the secrets of the lodge are hid from the drop; that is, from the unentered prentice, or any others not of their society, whom they call drops.
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