Drippeth vs Droppeth - What's the difference?
drippeth | droppeth |
(archaic) (drip)
To fall one drop at a time.
To leak slowly.
To let fall in drops.
* (Jonathan Swift)
* , chapter=8
, title= To have a superabundance of valuable things.
(of the weather) To rain lightly.
To be wet, to be soaked.
A drop of a liquid.
(medicine) An apparatus that slowly releases a liquid, especially one that releases drugs into a patient's bloodstream (an intravenous drip).
(colloquial) A limp, ineffectual, boring or otherwise uninteresting person.
A falling or letting fall in drops; act of dripping.
* Byron
(architecture) That part of a cornice, sill course, or other horizontal member, which projects beyond the rest, and has a section designed to throw off rainwater.
(finance) Dividend reinvestment program; a type of financial investing
(archaic) (drop)
* 1596–1598 , , Oxford University (1993), ISBN 019283424X, page
In archaic|lang=en terms the difference between drippeth and droppeth
is that drippeth is (archaic) (drip) while droppeth is (archaic) (drop).As verbs the difference between drippeth and droppeth
is that drippeth is (archaic) (drip) while droppeth is (archaic) (drop).drippeth
English
Verb
(head)drip
English
(wikipedia drip)Verb
(dripp)- Which from the thatch drips fast a shower of rain.
Mr. Pratt's Patients, passage=Philander went into the next room
Derived terms
* dripperNoun
(en noun)- I put a drip of vanilla extract in my hot cocoa.
- He's not doing so well. The doctors have put him on a drip .
- He couldn't even summon up the courage to ask her name... what a drip !
- the light drip of the suspended oar
Derived terms
*Acronym
(Acronym) (head)droppeth
English
Verb
(head)- Edgar droppeth the broomstick.
197,
- The quality of mercy is not strained. It droppeth as the gentle rain from heaven upon the place beneath.