drib Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. noun a small indefinite quantity (especially of a liquid)
    drop; driblet.
    • he had a drop too much to drink
    • a drop of each sample was analyzed
    • there is not a drop of pity in that man
    • years afterward, they would pay the blood-money, driblet by driblet"--Kipling

WordNet

Drib transitive verb
Etymology
Cf. Drip.
Wordforms
imperfect & past participle Dribbed ; present participle & verbal noun Dribbing
Definitions
  1. To do by little and little; as: (a) To cut off by a little at a time; to crop. (b) To appropriate unlawfully; to filch; to defalcate.
    He who drives their bargain dribs a part. Dryden.
    (c) To lead along step by step; to entice.
    With daily lies she dribs thee into cost. Dryden.
Drib transitive verb & intransitive verb
Definitions
  1. (Archery) To shoot (a shaft) so as to pierce on the descent. Obs. Sir P. Sidney.
Drib noun
Definitions
  1. A drop. Obs. Swift.

Webster 1913