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Bedribble
Bedribble Be*drib"ble, v. t. To dribble upon.
Bescribble
Bescribble Be*scrib"ble, v. t. To scribble over. ``Bescribbled with impertinences.' --Milton.
Cribble
Cribble Crib"ble, a. Coarse; as, cribble bread. [Obs.] --Huloet.
Dribble
Dribble Drib"ble, v. t. In various games, to propel (the ball) by successive slight hits or kicks so as to keep it always in control.
Dribble
Dribble Drib"ble, n. An act of dribbling a ball.
Dribble
Dribble 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.]
Dribble
Dribble Drib"ble, v. t. To let fall in drops. Let the cook . . . dribble it all the way upstairs. -- Swift.
Dribble
Dribble Drib"ble, n. A drizzling shower; a falling or leaking in drops. [Colloq.]
Dribbled
Dribble 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.]
Dribbler
Dribbler Drib"bler, n. One who dribbles.
Dribblet
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. When made up in dribblets, as they could, their best securities were at an interest of twelve per cent. --Burke.
Fribble
Fribble Frib"ble, n. A frivolous, contemptible fellow; a fop. A pert fribble of a peer. --Thackeray.
Fribble
Fribble Frib"ble, v. i. 1. To act in a trifling or foolish manner; to act frivolously. The fools that are fribbling round about you. --Thackeray. 2. To totter. [Obs.]
Fribbler
Fribbler Frib"bler, n. A trifler; a fribble.
Gribble
Gribble Grib"ble, n. [Cf. Prov. E. grib to bite.] (Zo["o]l.) A small marine isopod crustacean (Limnoria lignorum or L. terebrans), which burrows into and rapidly destroys submerged timber, such as the piles of wharves, both in Europe and America.
Scribble
Scribble Scrib"ble, v. t. [Cf. Scrabble.] (Woolen Manuf.) To card coarsely; to run through the scribbling machine.
Scribble
Scribble Scrib"ble, n. Hasty or careless writing; a writing of little value; a scrawl; as, a hasty scribble. --Boyle. Neither did I but vacant seasons spend In this my scribble. --Bunyan.
Scribblement
Scribblement Scrib"ble*ment, n. A scribble. [R.] --Foster.
Scribbler
Scribbler Scrib"bler, n. One who scribbles; a petty author; a writer of no reputation; a literary hack. The scribbler, pinched with hunger, writes to dine. --Granville.
Scribbler
Scribbler Scrib"bler, n. A scribbling machine.
scribbler
Scribbling Scrib"bling, n. [See 1st Scribble.] The act or process of carding coarsely. Scribbling machine, the machine used for the first carding of wool or other fiber; -- called also scribbler.
Thribble
Thribble Thrib"ble, a. Triple; treble; threefold. [Prov. Eng. or Colloq.] --Halliwell.
Transcribbler
Transcribbler Tran*scrib"bler (tr[a^]n*skr[i^]b"bl[~e]r), n. A transcriber; -- used in contempt. He [Aristotle] has suffered vastly from the transcribblers, as all authors of great brevity necessarily must. --Gray.
Tribble
Tribble Trib"ble, n. (Paper Manuf.) A frame on which paper is dried. --Knight.
Woolen scribbler
Woolen Wool"en, a. [OE. wollen; cf. AS. wyllen. See Wool.] [Written also woollen.] 1. Made of wool; consisting of wool; as, woolen goods. 2. Of or pertaining to wool or woolen cloths; as, woolen manufactures; a woolen mill; a woolen draper. Woolen scribbler, a machine for combing or preparing wool in thin, downy, translucent layers.

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