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drip
  1. A drop of a liquid.
  2. (medicine) An apparatus that slowly releases a liquid, especially one that releases drugs into a patient's bloodstream (an intravenous drip).
  3. (colloquial) A limp, ineffectual, boring or otherwise uninteresting person.
  4. A falling or letting fall in drops; act of dripping.
  5. (architecture) That part of a cornice, sill course, or other horizontal member, which projects beyond the rest, and has a section designed to throw off rainwater.
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  7. Examples:
    1. “I think the worst ad, voted just that in 2001, was the Codral ad that had a large drip of snot coming from someone's nose like a bungy rope.”
      “That dame thinks she has great cunning, but she's a boring drip.”
      “They told him he was just a little drip, and when he protested, they upped him to a squirt.”
dripper
  1. Agent noun of drip; one who drips.
  2. A dripping cake.
  3. An outlet in the microtubing used in drip irrigation.
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  5. Examples:
    1. “A giant buck had stopped there and was looking down towards Dan's scrape dripper and scent rag.”
      “It's easy to incorporate scents using a temperature-regulated dripper, wicks, or even a light misting on nearby brush.”
      “Deer begin making scrapes in early fall, so you can make your scrape in late summer and activate it with a scent dripper just prior to your hunting window.”
dripstone
  1. (architecture) A protective moulding over a door or window that allows rain to drip away from the structure
  2. (geology) stalactites and stalagmites collectively
  3. Examples:
    1. “An inspection of this end shows it to be pierced by three plain lancet windows with no dripstone.”
      “The upper stage is relieved by a pointed window, of two lights, on each side, the dripstone of each terminating in heads.”
      “Features like this are found in caves, where they take the general name of dripstone.”
dripping
dripline
  1. The boundary, under a tree or other plant, beyond which water will not drip from its foliage.
drippiness
  1. The state or condition of being drippy.
dripstones
  1. plural of dripstone
  2. Examples:
    1. “Exterior features of the house are a steeply pitched roof, large gables and architectural details such as the ornamental dripstones above the mullion windows.”
      “The terminations of the dripstones are foliated and stand out detached.”
      “There are terraced and semi-detached styles, some in local stone, others faced with render, traditional dripstones and cills, canopied porches and a range of window designs.”
driplines
  1. plural of dripline
drippings
  1. plural of dripping
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  3. Examples:
    1. “I will also make roast potatoes with onions, baked in the drippings from a previous roast and seasoned with Italian mixed herbs.”
      “It consisted of word play in which common terms for meat, drippings, or gravy were substituted with other words.”
      “The base is bacon drippings, sliced white onions, corn, fresh corn from the cob.”
drippers
drips
  1. plural of drip
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  3. Examples:
    1. “Visitors are also to be told not to touch wound dressings, drips and monitors of the person they are visiting.”
      “Find a large roasting dish, preferably the type with a rack so the fat drips through to the bottom.”
      “It only absorbs so much, and a minimum of drips will prevent random glops of dye all over the hair.”
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