drip

6 definitions found

drip - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  Drip \Drip\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Drippedor 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.
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     2. To let fall drops of moisture or liquid; as, a wet garment
        drips.
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              The dark round of the dripping wheel. --Tennyson.
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  Drip \Drip\, v. t.
     To let fall in drops.
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           Which from the thatch drips fast a shower of rain.
                                                    --Swift.
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  Drip \Drip\, n.
     1. A falling or letting fall in drops; a dripping; that which
        drips, or falls in drops.
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              The light drip of the suspended oar.  --Byron.
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     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.
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     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.
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drip - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  drip
      n 1: flowing in drops; the formation and falling of drops of
           liquid; "there's a drip through the roof" [syn: drip,
           trickle, dribble]
      2: the sound of a liquid falling drop by drop; "the constant
         sound of dripping irritated him" [syn: drip, dripping]
      3: (architecture) a projection from a cornice or sill designed
         to protect the area below from rainwater (as over a window or
         doorway) [syn: drip, drip mold, drip mould]
      v 1: fall in drops; "Water is dripping from the faucet"
      2: let or cause to fall in drops; "dribble oil into the mixture"
         [syn: dribble, drip, drop]

drip - V.E.R.A. -- Virtual Entity of Relevant Acronyms (June 2006) :

  DRIP
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drip - Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 :

  77 Moby Thesaurus words for "drip":
     balderdash, baloney, boob, bore, bull, bunk, bushwa, buttonholer,
     chump, clod, condensation, condense, crashing bore, damper,
     distill, distillation, dolt, dope, drag, dribble, dripping,
     drippings, dripple, drivel, drizzle, drop, dryasdust, dullard,
     dusty, exude, filter, flat tire, frightful bore, goon, gurgle,
     gush, headache, humdrum, killjoy, leach, leaching, leak, leak out,
     leakage, leaking, lixiviate, lixiviation, milksop, moron, nuisance,
     ooze, percolate, percolation, pest, pill, pour, proser, seep,
     seepage, seeping, simpleton, sluice, spatter, sprinkle, spurtle,
     stream, sweat, sweating, trickle, tricklet, trill, twaddle,
     twaddler, weed, weep, wet, wet blanket