Word Meanings - DRIBBLE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Etym: 1. To fall in drops or small drops, or in a quick succession of drops; as, water dribbles from the eaves. 2. To slaver, as a child or an idiot; to drivel. 3. To fall weakly and slowly. "The dribbling dart of love." Shak. .

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of DRIBBLE)

• Fritter
• Dribble
• waste
• idle
• dissipate
• Trickle
• Drip
• drop
• dribble
• ooze
• percolate
• distil

Related words: (words related to DRIBBLE)

• PERCOLATE
  To cause to pass through fine interstices, as a liquor; to filter; to strain. Sir M. Hale.
• DRIBBLET; DRIBLET
  A small piece or part; a small sum; a small quantity of money in making up a sum; as, the money was paid in dribblets. When made up in dribblets, as they could, their best securities were at an interest of twelve per cent. Burke.
• WASTEL
  A kind of white and fine bread or cake; -- called also wastel bread, and wastel cake. Roasted flesh or milk and wasted bread. Chaucer. The simnel bread and wastel cakes, which were only used at the tables of the highest nobility. Sir W. Scott.
• WASTETHRIFT
  A spendthrift.
• DISTILLABLE
  Capable of being distilled; especially, capable of being distilled without chemical change or decomposition; as, alcohol is distillable; olive oil is not distillable.
• DISTILLATION
  The separation of the volatile parts of a substance from the more fixed; specifically, the operation of driving off gas or vapor from volatile liquids or solids, by heat in a retort or still, and the condensation of the products as far as possible
• WASTEBOARD
  See 3
• DISTILLATORY
  Belonging to, or used in, distilling; as, distillatory vessels. -- n.
• WASTE
  the kindred German word; cf. OHG. wuosti, G. wüst, OS. w, D. woest, 1. Desolate; devastated; stripped; bare; hence, dreary; dismal; gloomy; cheerless. The dismal situation waste and wild. Milton. His heart became appalled as he gazed forward into
• DISSIPATED
  1. Squandered; scattered. "Dissipated wealth." Johnson. 2. Wasteful of health, money, etc., in the pursuit of pleasure; dissolute; intemperate. A life irregular and dissipated. Johnson.
• WASTEFUL
  1. Full of waste; destructive to property; ruinous; as; wasteful practices or negligence; wasteful expenses. 2. Expending, or tending to expend, property, or that which is valuable, in a needless or useless manner; lavish; prodigal; as, a wasteful
• WASTER
  1. One who, or that which, wastes; one who squanders; one who consumes or expends extravagantly; a spendthrift; a prodigal. He also that is slothful in his work is brother to him that is a great waster. Prov. xviii. 9. Sconces are great wasters
• DISTIL
  See DISTILL
• WASTEWEIR
  An overfall, or weir, for the escape, or overflow, of superfluous water from a canal, reservoir, pond, or the like.
• DISTILLMENT
  Distillation; the substance obtained by distillation. Shak.
• DISSIPATE
  1. To scatter completely; to disperse and cause to disappear; -- used esp. of the dispersion of things that can never again be collected or restored. Dissipated those foggy mists of error. Selden. I soon dissipated his fears. Cook. The extreme
• WASTEBOOK
  A book in which rough entries of transactions are made, previous to their being carried into the journal.
• DISTILLERY
  1. The building and works where distilling, esp. of alcoholic liquors, is carried on. 2. The act of distilling spirits. Todd.
• DRIBBLER
  One who dribbles.
• TRICKLE
  To flow in a small, gentle stream; to run in drops. His salt tears trickled down as rain. Chaucer. Fast beside there trickled softly down A gentle stream. Spenser.
• ALKALI WASTE
  Waste material from the manufacture of alkali; specif., soda waste.
• OVERWASTED
  Wasted or worn out; Drayton.
• STRICKLE
  An instrument used for smoothing the surface of a core. (more info) 1. An instrument to strike grain to a level with the measure; a strike. 2. An instrument for whetting scythes; a rifle.
• FOREWASTE
  See GASCOIGNE
• BEDRIBBLE
  To dribble upon.
• FORWASTE
  To desolate or lay waste utterly. Spenser.