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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.
Bibble-babble
Bibble-babble Bib"ble-bab"ble, n. [A reduplication of babble.]
Idle talk; babble. --Shak.
bibblerBibler Bib"ler (b[i^]b"l[~e]r), n. [See Bib, v. t.]
A great drinker; a tippler. [Written also bibbler and
bibbeler.] Cribble
Cribble Crib"ble, a.
Coarse; as, cribble bread. [Obs.] --Huloet.
DibbleDibble Dib"ble, n. [See Dibble, v. i.]
A pointed implement used to make holes in the ground in which
no set out plants or to plant seeds. DibbleDibble Dib"ble, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Dibbled; p. pr. & vb. n.
Dibbling.] [Freq. of Prov. E. dib, for dip to thrust in.
See Dip.]
To dib or dip frequently, as in angling. --Walton. Dibble
Dibble Dib"ble, v. t.
1. To plant with a dibble; to make holes in (soil) with a
dibble, for planting.
2. To make holes or indentations in, as if with a dibble.
The clayey soil around it was dibbled thick at the
time by the tiny hoofs of sheep. --H. Miller.
DibbledDibble Dib"ble, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Dibbled; p. pr. & vb. n.
Dibbling.] [Freq. of Prov. E. dib, for dip to thrust in.
See Dip.]
To dib or dip frequently, as in angling. --Walton. Dibbler
Dibbler Dib"bler, n.
One who, or that which, dibbles, or makes holes in the ground
for seed.
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.
DribbleDribble 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.]
DribbledDribble 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.
DribbletDribblet 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.
GribbleGribble 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. Kibble
Kibble Kib"ble, v. t.
To bruise; to grind coarsely; as, kibbled oats. [Prov.Eng.]
--Halliwell.
KibbleKibble Kib"ble, n.
A large iron bucket used in Cornwall and Wales for raising
ore out of mines. [Prov. Eng.] [Written also kibbal.] Nibble
Nibble Nib"ble, v. t.
To bite upon something gently or cautiously; to eat a little
of a thing, as by taking small bits cautiously; as, fishes
nibble at the bait.
Instead of returning a full answer to my book, he
manifestly falls a-nibbling at one single passage.
--Tillotson.
Nibble
Nibble Nib"ble, n.
A small or cautious bite.
NibbleNibble Nib"ble, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Nibbled; p. pr. & vb. n.
Nibbling.] [Cf. Nip.]
To bite by little at a time; to seize gently with the mouth;
to eat slowly or in small bits.
Thy turfy mountains, where live nibbling sheep. --Shak. NibbledNibble Nib"ble, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Nibbled; p. pr. & vb. n.
Nibbling.] [Cf. Nip.]
To bite by little at a time; to seize gently with the mouth;
to eat slowly or in small bits.
Thy turfy mountains, where live nibbling sheep. --Shak. Nibbler
Nibbler Nib"bler, n.
One who, or that which, nibbles.
Quibble
Quibble Quib"ble, n. [Probably fr. quib, quip, but influenced
by quillet, or quiddity.]
1. A shift or turn from the point in question; a trifling or
evasive distinction; an evasion; a cavil.
Quibbles have no place in the search after truth. --
I. Watts.
2. A pun; a low conceit.
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