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noun

Drip n.

A falling or letting fall in drops; a dripping; that which drips, or falls in drops. "The light drip of the suspended oar."

(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.

verb

Drip v. t. To let fall in drops. "Which from the thatch drips fast a shower of rain."

Drip v. i. (past & past part. dripped or dript; pres. part. dripping)

To fall in drops; as, water drips from the eaves.

To let fall drops of moisture or liquid; as, a wet garment drips. "The dark round of the dripping wheel."

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Etymology of 'Drip'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Drip" Quotes from Famous Books

... the clammy gloom. Nothing save patches of sky, seen between the black beams, greeted his eyes. There was no sound save that of the water—splash, splash, drip, drip. For an instant the fear of death conquered him, and ...

— Adventures in Many Lands • Various

... gesticulated his keen sense of a clincher, which the tinker acknowledged; and having, so to speak, sealed up the subject by saying the best thing that could be said, the two smoked for some time in silence to the drip and patter of ...

— The Shaving of Shagpat • George Meredith

... in the moonlight to be smooth walls of ice were really furrowed and wrinkled like an old man's face by the streams of melted water which were continually running down them. The whole huge mass was brittle and honeycombed and rotten. Already they could hear all round them the ominous drip, drip, and the splash and tinkle of the little rivulets as ...

— The Refugees • Arthur Conan Doyle

... right to avoid the drip of a limpid stream,—that falls over the entrance like a perpetual libation to Pluto,—a few minutes' walk places us many hundred feet vertically beneath the surface, and in the "Rotunda," an enlargement of the cave, which looks about as large as the interior of Trinity Church, but is in reality ...

— The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 20, No. 122, December, 1867 • Various

... the whole course of her life before; but whether she wept for Mac, or Dan, or for herself, she could not have said. She heard the sounds die out of the alley one by one, the clanging cars at the end of the street became less frequent; only the drip, drip, drip from a broken gutter outside her window, and the rats in the wall kept her company. All day Sunday she stayed in-doors, and came to the office on Monday ...

— Calvary Alley • Alice Hegan Rice

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