When thus employed, his location in the tree is betrayed by a dribble of scales, shells, and seed-wings, and, every few minutes, by the fall of the stripped axis of the cone.

Drip, dribble, trickle.

It is asserted that a child, while cutting its teeth, should either dribble excessively, vomit after every meal, or be greatly relaxed.

Now thou's turned out, for a' thy trouble, But house or hald, To thole the winter's sleety dribble, An' cranreuch cauld!

They will strike root in the leak of a flume, or the dribble of an overfull bank, coaxing the water beyond its appointed bounds.

Those anxious to supersede him began to dribble in, it is true; but they faded away, one by one, after interviews with Miss Van Rolsen, and returned no more.

exude, transude; leak, run through, out through; percolate, transcolate^; egurgitate^; strain, distill; perspire, sweat, drain, ooze; filter, filtrate; dribble, gush, spout, flow out;

Mr. Grimm dragged them out of a dark closet, opened onethere were tenand allowed the coins to dribble through his fingers.

For a few minutes all went wellthen he stepped on a green-tinted slope of slate over which a very shallow dribble of water was running.

And he went from group to group holding out his peaked felt hat, into which, amid an icy silence, fell coin by coin a dribble of small silver.

But after about twenty minutes I awoke to the fact that a constant dribble of men, singly or in pairs, had begun to flow past me from the Piazza, down Liberty Street, across the road behind me, and into the wood.

It was a beautiful little lake, bedded in hard gravel and maintained by a dribble of water from a brook on the north shore.

They ate what Jarvis dubbed "a soupçon" of lunch in a tea-shop, and to elude a dribble of rain they betook themselves to the Armory, down on Seventeenth Street, to the much-talked-of International Modern Art Exhibition.

It dribbled and rumbled along at about five miles an hour, and, I verily believe, stopped at every farmhouse within sight of the line.

When you have something on your mind you always take up a spoon of coffee, and look at it, and kind of joggle it back and forth in the spoon, and then dribble it back into the cup again, without once tasting it.

Of course, if you will only pay a handful of men salaries at which the cook of any large London hotel would turn up his nose, you cannot expect to have the master minds of the world at your service; and save for a few independent or devoted men, therefore, it is not reasonable to suppose that such a poor little dribble of medical research as is now going on is in the hands of persons of much more than average mental equipment.

She drove on, and the brick business buildings gave out into a dribble of small frame cottages, mostly shabby.

The hand pump produced only a dribble, and its suction could not be got at; as the water crept higher it got in contact with the boiler and grew warmerso hot at last that no one could work at the suctions.

Yet strange as it may seem the effort has not been wholly fruitlessthe string of buckets which has now been kept going for four hours, together with the dribble from the pump, has kept the water underif anything there is a small decrease.

Stanley had to go after the cows, which were little better than walking hides, yet were yarded morning and evening to yield a dribble of milk.

He greedily ate every atom of his rarebit, he absorbed every drop of the moisture in the teapot, so that when she shook it and shook it, and then tried to pour something from it, there was no slightest dribble at the spout.

A good many men are truthful on the installment planthat is, they tell their boss all the good things in sight about their end of the business and then dribble out the bad ones like a fellow who's giving you a list of his debts.

" [Illustration: "Tried to bust your poor old father"] "Well, I've got a million dollars," Percy dribbled out.

We are surrounded now by blood-curdling photographs of people being run over by omnibuses or dribbled along the street by horses attached to brewers' drays, these illustrations being accompanied by explanatory notes as to the inevitable result of crossing roads with your eyes shut or your fingers in your ears and endeavouring to alight from moving omnibuses by means of the back somersault or the swallow dive.

Jes' plant a good old watermelon-vine; an' when she gits ripe, you come dar, an' don't you eat it, but jes' bus' it on de grave, an' let de good old juice dribble down thro' de ground!" "That's rather a handsome mantelpiece you have there, Mr. Binkston," said the visitor.