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Driblet

noun
1.
A small indefinite quantity (especially of a liquid).  Synonyms: drib, drop.  "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"






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"Driblet" Quotes from Famous Books



... wine-skin of his brain Yields to some pathologic strain, And voids from its unstored abysm The driblet of ...
— The Devil's Dictionary • Ambrose Bierce

... question'd thy supreme decree. Thou didst his gracious reign prolong, Even in thy saints' and angels' wrong, His fellow-citizens of immortality: For twelve long years of exile borne, Twice twelve we number'd since his blest return: So strictly wert thou just to pay, Even to the driblet of a day. Yet still we murmur and complain, The quails and manna should no longer rain; Those miracles 'twas needless to renew; The chosen stock has now the promised land ...
— The Poetical Works of John Dryden, Vol I - With Life, Critical Dissertation, and Explanatory Notes • John Dryden



Words linked to "Driblet" :   drib, eye-drop, droplet, eyedrop, raindrop, small indefinite quantity, teardrop, small indefinite amount, tear



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