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driblet/ˈdrɪblɪt; `drɪblɪt/ nsmall amount 少量; 点滴; 零星 in driblets, ie a little at a time 一点点地.
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dribblet
driblet, dribblet, n. (ˈdrɪblɪt) [f. drib v. + -let: association with dribble seems later.] 1. a. ‘A small sum, odd money in a sum’ (J.).1632 Quarles Div. Fancies iii. xxv. (1660) 107 We crave, and crave a longer Day, Then pay in Driblets, or else never pay. 1633 T. Adams Exp. 2 Peter ii. 14 The hig...
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dribbet
dribbet obs. var. or misprint for driblet.1659 Gauden Tears of Ch. ii. xix. 243 Pittances..slowly payd by dribbets and with infinite delayes.
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drib
▪ I. † drib, v. Obs. [app. an onomatopœic formation arising out of drip or drop, the modified consonant expressing a modification of the notion.] 1. intr. To fall in drops; fig., to go on little by little.1523 St. Papers Hen. VIII, VI. 160 Suche drybbing warre, as hit hitherto hathe ben made by the ...
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dripplekie
† ˈdripplekie Obs. nonce-wd. A very small drop, a driblet.1668 Culpepper & Cole Barthol. Anat. iii. iii. 135 If you squeeze the substance thereof, many little Dripplekies of blood do sweat out.
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spatter
▪ I. † ˈspatter, n.1 Obs. [Alteration of spatour spature.] A spatule.1569 R. Androse tr. Alexis' Secr. iv. ii. 40 Worke it with a spatter, vntill it be come vnto the heigth of waxe. Ibid. iii. 25 Laboring them with the spatter. Ibid. 45 Working it alwayes with a spatter. 1590 P. Barrough Meth. Physi...
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blowing
▪ I. blowing, vbl. n.1 (ˈbləʊɪŋ) [f. blow v.1 + -ing1.] 1. a. gen. The action expressed by the vb. to blow.c 1000 ælfric Judges vii. 16 (Bosw.) Heora byman him to ðære blawunge. 1398 Trevisa Barth. De P.R. xvii. clvii. (1495) 708 Wyth blowynge of wynde. a 1422 Le Venery de Twety in Rel. Ant. I. 153 ...
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