drop, drib, driblet
(noun) a small indefinite quantity (especially of a liquid); “he had a drop too much to drink”; “a drop of each sample was analyzed”; “there is not a drop of pity in that man”; “years afterward, they would pay the blood-money, driblet by driblet”--Kipling
Source: WordNet® 3.1
drib (third-person singular simple present dribs, present participle dribbing, simple past and past participle dribbed)
(transitive) To cut off; chop off.
(transitive) To cut off little by little; cheat by small and reiterated tricks; purloin.
(transitive) To entice step by step.
To appropriate unlawfully; to embezzle.
(transitive, archery) To shoot directly at short range.
(intransitive, archery) To shoot at a mark at short range.
(transitive, archery) To shoot (a shaft) so as to pierce on the descent.
(transitive, now, chiefly, UK dialectal) To beat; thrash; drub.
(transitive, now, chiefly, UK dialectal) To scold.
(transitive, now, chiefly, UK dialectal, marbles) To strike another player's marble when playing from the trigger.
drib (plural dribs)
(obsolete) A drop.
• Bird, bird
Source: Wiktionary
Drib, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Dribbed; p. pr. & vb. n. Dribbing.] Etym: [Cf. Drip.]
Definition: To do by little and little; as: (a) To cut off by a little at a time; to crop. (b) To appropriate unlawfully; to filch; to defalcate. He who drives their bargain dribs a part. Dryden.
(c) To lead along step by step; to entice. With daily lies she dribs thee into cost. Dryden.
Drib, v. t. & i. (Archery)
Definition: To shoot (a shaft) so as to pierce on the descent. [Obs.] Sir P. Sidney.
Drib, n.
Definition: A drop. [Obs.] Swift.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
23 December 2024
(noun) Australian tree having hard white timber and glossy green leaves with white flowers followed by one-seeded glossy blue fruit
The earliest credible evidence of coffee-drinking as the modern beverage appeared in modern-day Yemen. In the middle of the 15th century in Sufi shrines where coffee seeds were first roasted and brewed for drinking. The Yemenis procured the coffee beans from the Ethiopian Highlands.
