¦ verb (drips, dripping, dripped) let fall small drops of liquid.
?fall in small drops.
¦ noun
1. a small drop of a liquid.
2. Medicine an apparatus which slowly passes fluid, nutrients, or drugs into a patient's body intravenously.
3. informal a weak and ineffectual person.
4. Architecture a projection on a moulding, channelled to prevent rain from running down the wall below.
Origin
OE
dryppan,
dry?pen, of Gmc origin; related to
drop.