Word Meanings - DRIP - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. To fall in drops; as, water drips from the eaves. 2. To let fall drops of moisture or liquid; as, a wet garment drips. The dark round of the dripping wheel. Tennyson.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of DRIP)

• Distil
• Drop
• emanate
• drip
• percolate
• Drain Draw
• strain
• drop
• exhaust
• empty
• dry
• Exudation
• Ooze
• percolation
• Trickle
• Drip
• dribble
• ooze
• distil

Related words: (words related to DRIP)

• PERCOLATE
  To cause to pass through fine interstices, as a liquor; to filter; to strain. Sir M. Hale.
• STRAINABLE
  1. Capable of being strained. 2. Violent in action. Holinshed.
• 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.
• DRAINE
  The missel thrush.
• 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
• STRAINING
  from Strain. Straining piece , a short piece of timber in a truss, used to maintain the ends of struts or rafters, and keep them from slipping. See Illust. of Queen-post.
• PERCOLATION
  The act or process of percolating, or filtering; filtration; straining. Specifically , the process of exhausting the virtues of a powdered drug by letting a liquid filter slowly through it.
• EXHAUSTION
  An ancient geometrical method in which an exhaustive process was employed. It was nearly equivalent to the modern method of limits. Note: The method of exhaustions was applied to great variety of propositions, pertaining to rectifications
• DISTILLATORY
  Belonging to, or used in, distilling; as, distillatory vessels. -- n.
• EXHAUSTIVE
  Serving or tending to exhaust; exhibiting all the facts or arguments; as, an exhaustive method. Ex*haust"ive*ly, adv.
• EXHAUSTURE
  Exhaustion. Wraxall.
• EMPTYING
  The lees of beer, cider, etc.; yeast. (more info) 1. The act of making empty. Shak. 2. pl.
• STRAINED
  1. Subjected to great or excessive tension; wrenched; weakened; as, strained relations between old friends. 2. Done or produced with straining or excessive effort; as, his wit was strained.
• EXHAUSTLESS
  Not be exhausted; inexhaustible; as, an exhaustless fund or store.
• DISTIL
  See DISTILL
• STRAINT
  Overexertion; excessive tension; strain. Spenser.
• EMANATE
  prob. for madnare, and akin to madere to be wet, drip, madidus wet, 1. To issue forth from a source; to flow out from more or less constantly; as, fragrance emanates from flowers. 2. To proceed from, as a source or fountain; to take origin; to
• EXHAUSTIBILITY
  Capability of being exhausted. I was seriously tormented by the thought of the exhaustibility of musical combinations. J. S. Mill.
• DISTILLMENT
  Distillation; the substance obtained by distillation. Shak.
• RESTRAINABLE
  Capable of being restrained; controllable. Sir T. Browne.
• DISTRAINER
  See DISTRAINOR
• HALF-STRAINED
  Half-bred; imperfect. "A half-strained villain." Dryden.
• WATER DRAIN
  A drain or channel for draining off water.
• 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.
• UNEXHAUSTIBLE
  Inexhaustible.
• INEXHAUSTED
  Not exhausted; not emptied; not spent; not having lost all strength or resources; unexhausted. Dryden.
• CONSTRAINTIVE
  Constraining; compulsory. "Any constraintive vow." R. Carew.
• TOP-DRAINING
  The act or practice of drining the surface of land.
• RESTRAINEDLY
  With restraint. Hammond.