Driblet

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  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]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  driblet
       n : a small quantity (especially of a liquid); "one drop of each
           sample was analyzed"; "any child with a drop of negro
           blood was legally a negro"; "there is not a drop of pity
           in that man" [syn: {drop}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  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