drip

verb (drips, dripping, dripped)

• let fall or be so wet as to shed small drops of liquid:the tap won’t stop dripping his hands were dripping with blood
• [with adverbial] (of liquid) fall in small drops:water dripped from her clothing
• [with object] cause or allow (a liquid) to fall in small drops:the candle was dripping wax down one side
• display a copious amount or degree of a particular quality or thing:the women were dripping with gold and diamonds [with object]:his voice dripped sarcasm

noun

• 1a small drop of a liquid:she put the bucket on top of the dresser to catch the drips
• the action or sound of liquid falling steadily in small drops:the drip, drip, drip of the leak in the roof
• (also drip feed) Medicine an apparatus which passes fluid, nutrients, or drugs drop by drop into a patient’s body on a continuous basis, usually intravenously:he had been on a drip for several days

• 2 informal a weak and ineffectual person: I hope that drip isn’t still pursuing you

• 3 Architecture a projection on a moulding, channelled to prevent rain from running down the wall below. Compare with dripstone.