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/drˈɪpɪŋ/ Listen

noun

Dripping n.

A falling in drops, or the sound so made.

That which falls in drops, as fat from meat in roasting.

Dripping pan, a pan for receiving the fat which drips from meat in roasting.

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 'Dripping'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Dripping" Quotes from Famous Books

... pot lid in place accurately and gave her left hand a deft turn to save the dough from dripping. She glanced from it to Robert, expecting to see him open the door and disappear. Instead he stood looking at her intently. Suddenly he said: "Kate, will ...

— A Daughter of the Land • Gene Stratton-Porter

... white face of Minion arose from the dripping flanks of the journal as he caught sight of Peter in the arched entrance. A pale ...

— Peter the Brazen - A Mystery Story of Modern China • George F. Worts

... Monfaron, was the bully of the Ottawa raftsmen. He was about six feet six inches high, and proportionally broad and deep; and I remember how people would turn round to look after him, as he came pounding along Notre Dame street, in Montreal, in his red shirt and tan-colored shupac boots, all dripping wet, after mooring an acre or two of raft, and now bent for his ashore haunts in the Ste. Marie suburb, to indemnify himself with bacchanalian and other consolations for long- endured hardship. Among other feats of strength attributed to him, I remember the following, which has ...

— Picturesque Quebec • James MacPherson Le Moine

... how she could in those few minutes have rescued the cabin from the desolation in which the storm had plunged it. Out of the window he could see the stricken grasses dripping cold moisture, and the sky still angrily plunging forward like a disturbed sea. Not a tree or a house broke the view. The desolation of it swept over him as it never had before. But within the little ones were ...

— A Mountain Woman and Others • (AKA Elia Wilkinson) Elia W. Peattie

... all dripping wet and tried again. This time he stepped into the middle of the boat. He got safely in, but it was still very tippy, so he put sand in the bottom of it and made it ...

— The Cave Twins • Lucy Fitch Perkins

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