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.

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.

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.

"I haven't begun to drivel yet, Rege; and life counts for a good deal more when a man has an object than when he is living just to please himself."

Really, a live newspaper might do them goodespecially if you print a little socialistic drivel now and then.

In the streets strangers talked to strangers; the pulpit echoed the inextinguishable wrath of the streets; the journals, for a moment restrained into solemnity, echoed for once the real voice of an elevated humanity and not the drivel of partisanship nor the ulterior purposes of wealth and sham.

"Angela," I said, and if my voice was stern, well, whose wouldn't have been, "this is all perfect drivel.

What were you talking drivel about?" "I was not talking drivel.

What were you talking drivel about?" "I was not talking drivel.

" "Is it likely that I would come out here in order to talk drivel?" "Very likely.

" "Well, that's what I meant when I said it was all perfect drivel.

Blackwood's Magazine called same of the lyrics "drivel," and Carlyle characterized the aesthetic verse as "lollipops."

disgorge; expectorate, clear the throat, hawk, spit, sputter, splutter, slobber, drivel, slaver, slabber^; eructate; drool. unpack, unlade, unload, unship, offload; break bulk; dump. be let out. spew forth, erupt, ooze &c (emerge) 295.

His tongue has no retentive faculty, but is always running like a fool's drivel.

Sir (exploded Petherton),What senseless drivel you write on the least provocation!

But I have long enough, I fear too long, tormented you with my drivel.

In modern French bave means "drivel," "slabbering," and the verb baver "to slabber," but the bib is now called bavette.

Its trunk weeps tears of resin, which trail along in drivel, then change to heavy, creeping flame.

By-the-bye, here let me expose, once for all, the fallacy of Moore's drivel about the lovely maids of fair "Cashmere."

At first Pym's only comment was, "It is the same old drivel as before; what more can they want?"

' Raised on his pillow he greets them, and, says Oldham, 'Like Delphic Hag of old, by Fiend possest, He swells, wild Frenzy heaves his panting breast, His bristling hairs stick up, his eyeballs glow, And from his mouth long strakes of drivel flow.'] * *

"Why do you drivel?

As an amateur in style I couldn't translate his drivel word for word.

The only interest of them is that so good a poet could write such drivel, and that he knew it was drivel sufficiently well not to publish it.

The only interest of them is that so good a poet could write such drivel, and that he knew it was drivel sufficiently well not to publish it.

It seems incredible that men like Winthrop and Mason, Treat and Leete, and others of the foremost rank in those days, could have served as judges in such trials, and in all earnestness and sincerity listened to and given credence to the drivel, the travesties of common sense, the mockeries of truth, which fell from the lips of the witnesses in their testimonies.

oh *ayer* yesterday *ayuda* f. help *ayudar* help *ayuno* in a state of fasting; *en , en ayunas*, without knowing, without understanding *ayuntamiento* m. municipal governing body *baba* f. drivel; *caerse la * drivel, slaver with pleasure; cf.

oh *ayer* yesterday *ayuda* f. help *ayudar* help *ayuno* in a state of fasting; *en , en ayunas*, without knowing, without understanding *ayuntamiento* m. municipal governing body *baba* f. drivel; *caerse la * drivel, slaver with pleasure; cf.