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ˈdrizzling, ppl. a.
[f. drizzle v. + -ing2.]
That drizzles. a. Of rain or the like.
1579Spenser Sheph. Cal. Jan. 41 From mine eyes the drizling teares descend. 1594― Amoretti xviii, Drizling drops that often doe redound, the firmest flint doth in continuance weare. 1667Milton P.L. vi. 546 No drizling showr, But ratling storm of Arrows barbd with fire. 1743Lond. & Country Brew. iv. (ed. 2) 267 Run a drisling Stream..on a few Hops. 1863Geo. Eliot Romola iii. xiv, They walked on in silence..under the small drizzling rain.
b. Of a day, climate, etc.
1566Drant Horace, Sat. ii. ii. (R.), Through sletie drisling day. 1652Benlowes Theoph. ii. lxxii, Thus mounts she drizling Olivet. 1741Short in Phil. Trans. XLI. 629 All Three Days showery or drisling. 1875J. H. Bennet Winter Medit. i. iii. 81 A drizzling November day in England. |