v.
(drips, dripping, dripped)
let fall small drops of liquid.
▸fall in small drops.
n.
- a small drop of a liquid.
- Medicine an apparatus which slowly passes fluid, nutrients, or drugs into a patient's body intravenously.
- informal a weak and ineffectual person.
- Architecture a projection on a moulding, channelled to prevent rain from running down the wall below.
Etymology
OE dryppan, drȳpen, of Gmc origin; rel. to drop.