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▪ I. ˈdripping, vbl. n.
[f. drip v. + -ing.]
1. The fall of liquid in drops; concr. the liquid so falling.
c1440Promp. Parv. 132/2 Dryppynge, or droppynge, stillacio. a1635Corbet On J. Dawson, Butler Ch. Ch. (R.), O ye barrels! let your drippings fall In trickling streams. a1816Bp. Watson Anecd. I. 121 (R.) The scanty drippings of the most barren rocks in Switzerland.
2. spec. The melted fat that drips from roasting meat, which when cold is used like butter. Formerly often in pl.
1463[implied in dripping-pan.] 1530Palsgr. 215/1 Drepyng of rost meate, la gresse du rost. 1552Huloet, Drippinges of rost. 1601Holland Pliny II. 385 The dripping or grauie that commeth from a rams lights rosted. 1723Swift Poems Wks. 1763 II. 141 For Candles she trucks her Dripping. 1826Scott Let. to Lockhart 15 Jan., A good sirloin, which requires only to be basted with its own drippings. 1887R. N. Carey Uncle Max viii. 67 A piece of bread and dripping.
†3. A slope to carry off water. Cf. drip n. 7.
1613–39I. Jones in Leoni Palladio's Archit. (1742) I. 71 The Dripping of the Pavement. 1740Dyche & Pardon, Dripping..the inclination or angular slant of a pent house.
4. attrib. and Comb., as dripping-board, a board from which water drips; dripping-cake, a cake made with dripping; dripping crust, a pastry crust made with dripping; dripping toast, toast spread with dripping; dripping-vat (see quot.). Also dripping-pan.
1865I. T. F. Turner Slate Quarries 16 The slab, on which, from a ‘*dripping-board’, a continuous dropping of water washes particles of flint sand beneath the saw-plate.
1857Hughes Tom Brown ii. viii, The excellence of that mysterious condiment, a *dripping-cake.
1747H. Glasse Art Cookery viii. 75 A *Dripping Crust... Beef-dripping..work it up well into..Flour. 1906Mrs. Beeton Bk. Household Managem. xxxi. 883 Dripping crust (for plain pies and puddings).
1921W. de la Mare Crossings 14 Maybe you'll come and have a bit of *dripping toast to your tea.
1874Knight Dict. Mech., *Dripping-vat, a tank beneath a boiler..to catch the overflow or drip, as..in indigo-factories.
▪ II. ˈdripping, ppl. a.
[f. drip v. + -ing2.]
1. That drips; having liquid falling off in drops.
1783Cowper Rose 10 A nosegay, so dripping and drowned. 1801Southey Thalaba xi. xxxvi, His back and dripping wings Half open'd to the wind. 1833H. Martineau Cinnamon & P. vi. 109 The other girls wrung out their dripping hair.
b. Of weather: Wet, continuously rainy.
1699Poor Man's Plea 7 They had a dripping Harvest. 1792Trans. Soc. Arts X. 99 In any dripping year, you will not fail of two hundred bushels to an acre. 1894Mrs. H. Ward Marcella III. 250 A dripping September day.
c. dripping eaves. (See quot.)
1847Craig, Dripping-eaves, the lower edges of the roof of a building from which the rain drips to the ground. 1849Freeman Archit. 189 The towers sometimes have octagonal spires of wood with dripping eaves.
2. quasi-adv. in phr. dripping wet.
1840Marryat Olla Podr., S.W. by W., The master..came down dripping wet. |