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Wordnet 3.0

NOUN (1)

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



The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Dribblet \Drib"blet\, Driblet \Drib"let\, n. [From Dribble.]
   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.
   [1913 Webster]

         When made up in dribblets, as they could, their best
         securities were at an interest of twelve per cent.
                                                  --Burke.
   [1913 Webster]


WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

driblet
    n 1: a small indefinite quantity (especially of a liquid); "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 [syn: drop, drib, driblet]