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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]
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:

52 Moby Thesaurus words for "driblet": ace, atom, bit, dab, dole, dot, dram, dribble, droplet, dwarf, farthing, fleck, flyspeck, fragment, globule, gobbet, grain, granule, groat, hair, handful, iota, jot, little, little bit, minim, minimum, minutiae, mite, modicum, molecule, mote, nutshell, ounce, particle, pebble, pinch, pittance, point, scrimption, scruple, smidgen, smitch, speck, spoonful, spot, thimbleful, tiny bit, tittle, trifling amount, trivia, whit