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Webster 1913 Edition


Drip

Drip

,
Verb.
I.
[
imp. & p. p.
Dripped
or
Dript
;
p. pr. & vb. n.
Dripping
.]
[Akin to LG.
drippen
, Dan.
dryppe
, from a noun. See
Drop
.]
1.
To fall in drops;
as, water
drips
from the eaves
.
2.
To let fall drops of moisture or liquid;
as, a wet garment
drips
.
The dark round of the
dripping
wheel.
Tennyson.

Drip

,
Verb.
T.
To let fall in drops.
Which from the thatch
drips
fast a shower of rain.
Swift.

Drip

,
Noun.
1.
A falling or letting fall in drops; a dripping; that which drips, or falls in drops.
The light
drip
of the suspended oar.
Byron.
2.
(Arch.)
That part of a cornice, sill course, or other horizontal member, which projects beyond the rest, and is of such section as to throw off the rain water.
Right of drip
(Law)
,
an easement or servitude by which a man has the right to have the water flowing from his house fall on the land of his neighbor.

Webster 1828 Edition


Drip

DRIP

,
Verb.
I.
[G.]
1.
To fall in drops; as, water drips from eaves.
2 To have any liquid falling from it in drops; as, a wet garment drips.

DRIP

,
Verb.
T.
To let fall in drops.
The thatch drips fast a shower of rain.
So we say, roasting flesh drips fat.

DRIP

,
Noun.
1.
A falling in drops, or that which falls in drops.
In building, avoid the drip of your neighbors house.
2.
The edge of a roof; the eaves; a large flat member of the cornice.

Definition 2024


drip

drip

English

Water falling one drop at a time

Verb

drip (third-person singular simple present drips, present participle dripping, simple past and past participle dripped)

  1. (intransitive) To fall one drop at a time.
    Listening to the tap next door drip all night drove me mad!
  2. (intransitive) To leak slowly.
    Does the sink drip, or have I just spilt water over the floor?
  3. (transitive) To let fall in drops.
    After putting oil on the side of the salad, the chef should drip a little vinegar in the oil.
    My broken pen dripped ink onto the table.
    • Jonathan Swift
      Which from the thatch drips fast a shower of rain.
    • 1913, Joseph C. Lincoln, chapter 8, in Mr. Pratt's Patients:
      Philander went into the next room [] and came back with a salt mackerel that dripped brine like a rainstorm. Then he put the coffee pot on the stove and rummaged out a loaf of dry bread and some hardtack.
  4. (intransitive, usually with with) To have a superabundance of valuable things.
    The Old Hall simply drips with masterpieces of the Flemish painters.
    The duchess was dripping with jewels.
  5. (intransitive, of the weather) To rain lightly.
    The weather isn't so bad. I mean, it's dripping, but you're not going to get so wet.
  6. (intransitive) To be wet, to be soaked.

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Noun

Water dripping off of the end of a faucet.

drip (plural drips)

  1. A drop of a liquid.
    I put a drip of vanilla extract in my hot cocoa.
  2. (medicine) An apparatus that slowly releases a liquid, especially one that releases drugs into a patient's bloodstream (an intravenous drip).
    He's not doing so well. The doctors have put him on a drip.
  3. (colloquial) A limp, ineffectual, boring or otherwise uninteresting person.
    He couldn't even summon up the courage to ask her name... what a drip!
  4. A falling or letting fall in drops; act of dripping.
    • Byron
      the light drip of the suspended oar
  5. (architecture) That part of a cornice, sill course, or other horizontal member, which projects beyond the rest, and has a section designed to throw off rainwater.

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Acronym

drip

  1. (finance) Dividend reinvestment program; a type of financial investing

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