Part 537

Dreul (?), v. i. To drool. [Obs.]

Drev"il (?), n. A fool; a drudge. See Drivel.

Drew (?), imp. of Draw.

Drey (?), n. A squirrel's nest. See Dray. [Obs.]

Dreye (?), a. Dry. [Obs.] Chaucer.

Dreyn"te (?), imp., Dreynt (&?;), p. p., of Drench to drown. [Obs.] Chaucer.

Drib (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Dribbed (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Dribbing.] [Cf. Drip.] 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 (?), v. t. & i. (Archery) To shoot (a shaft) so as to pierce on the descent. [Obs.] Sir P. Sidney.

Drib, n. A drop. [Obs.] Swift.

Drib"ber (?), n. One who dribs; one who shoots weakly or badly. [Obs.] Ascham.

Drib"ble (?), v. i. [imp. & p. p. Dribbled (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Dribbing (?).] [Freq. of drib, which is a variant of drip.] 1. To fall in drops or small drops, or in a quick succession of drops; as, water dribbles from the eaves.

2. To slaver, as a child or an idiot; to drivel.

3. To fall weakly and slowly. [Obs.] "The dribbling dart of love." Shak. (Meas. for Meas. , i. 3, 2). [Perhaps an error for dribbing.]

Drib"ble, v. t. To let fall in drops.

Let the cook . . . dribble it all the way upstairs.

Swift.

Drib"ble, n. A drizzling shower; a falling or leaking in drops. [Colloq.]

Drib"bler (?), n. One who dribbles.

{ Drib"blet (?), 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.

When made up in dribblets, as they could, their best securities were at an interest of twelve per cent.

Burke.

Drie (?), v. t. [See Dree.] To endure. [Obs.]

So causeless such drede for to drie.