1933 Amer. Jrnl. Med. Sci. 185 701 The chill should be removed from the milk and the drip given continuously throughout the day and night.

1949 Anesthesia & Analgesia XXVII. 57 The bottle containing the solution is attached to a Murphy drip setup, and the solution injected by the anesthetist.

1961 Lancet 29 July 240/2 An intravenous normal saline drip was put up.

1968 J. H. Burn Lect. Notes Pharmacol. (ed. 9) 3 Noradrenaline is sometimes given as an intravenous drip.

1704 J. Mortimer Whole Art Husb. II. 164 Water may be procured..from the heavens by preserving the drips of the houses.

1801 C. Smith Lett. Solitary Wanderer I. 110 But for the drip of the trees.

1866 G. MacDonald Ann. Quiet Neighb. (1878) xi. 227 The drip from the thatch of the mill.

1880 V. L. Cameron Our Future Highway II. xii. 244 An awning..to keep the drips off.

1919 Wine, Women & War (1926) 306 Drool about duties by Navy egg, regular and hard boiled. Usual R.O.T.C. drip.

1924 P. Marks Plastic Age xxiv. 297 That freshman, Larson, showed me a theme..that Kempton had corrected. It was full of errors that weren't marked, and it was nothing in the world but drip.

1946 ‘B. Gray’ Mr. Ball of Fire i. 10 ‘We'll have nothing of the sort,’ interrupted Joy, putting a welcome stop to this drip.

1932 G. Lorimer & S. Lorimer Men are like Street Cars v. 114 He's no drip... Ted's a darn good egg.

1936 N. Marsh Death in Ecstasy xviii. 215 What about that little drip Claude?

1938 J. Cary Castle Corner 279 Ah, ye dirty devil, and what sort of a drip are ye to be dropped in a medical hall.

1951 I. J. C. Brown I break my Word 123 We now more often call a feeble, foolish creature a drip.

1951 J. Cannan And All I Learned xi. 197 Of all the wet drips!

1959 I. Opie & P. Opie Lore & Lang. Schoolchildren xv. 326 Someone considered over-affectionate is said to be soppy, sloppy, gormless, a drip, or a clot.

1945 ‘Tackline’ Holiday Sailor v. 53 Some of you chaps, you're on the drip the whole bloomin' time. Nothing but moan, moan, moan.

1948 ‘N. Shute’ No Highway xii. 293 He had a bit of a drip last time because we kept him in the dark.

1970 Guardian 20 Aug. 1/2 One of the accused, Able Seaman Edward Kirkbride, said he remembered someone saying: ‘I am going to have a drip (complaint).’

1664 J. Evelyn Acct. Archit. in tr. R. Fréart Parallel Antient Archit. 129 A Corona or drip to the Capitel, whereof it is the Plinth and Superior.

1726 G. Leoni tr. L. B. Alberti Architecture II. 35/2 The mutules supporting the Drip.

1823 P. Nicholson New Pract. Builder 407 Drips on Flats or Gutters..are formed by dressing the joints of the lead as described for rolls.

1850 T. Inkersley Styles Archit. France 274 Whose principal arches..are covered with concentric drips.

1728 E. Chambers Cycl. (at cited word) Drips, are also us'd in Building, for a Kind of Steps, on flat Roofs, to walk upon. This Way of Building is much us'd in Italy: where the Roof is not made quite flat, but a little raised in the Middle; with Drips, or Steps, lying a little inclining to the Horizon.

1730 N. Bailey et al. Dictionarium Britannicum Drips,..a sort of steps on flat roofs to walk upon, the roof is not quite flat, but a little raised in the middle, and those steps or drips lie each a little inclining to the horizon.

1696 E. Phillips New World of Words (new ed.) Dripping [1706 dripping or dropping] in Faulconry, is when a Hawk muteth directly downward in several Drops.