Word Meanings - DRIB - Book Publishers vocabulary database

To do by little and little; as: To cut off by a little at a time; to crop. To appropriate unlawfully; to filch; to defalcate. He who drives their bargain dribs a part. Dryden. To lead along step by step; to entice. With daily lies she dribs thee

Additional info about word: DRIB

To do by little and little; as: To cut off by a little at a time; to crop. To appropriate unlawfully; to filch; to defalcate. He who drives their bargain dribs a part. Dryden. To lead along step by step; to entice. With daily lies she dribs thee into cost. Dryden.

Related words: (words related to DRIB)

• APPROPRIATENESS
  The state or quality of being appropriate; peculiar fitness. Froude.
• BARGAINER
  One who makes a bargain; -- sometimes in the sense of bargainor.
• ALONGSIDE
  Along or by the side; side by side with; -- often with of; as, bring the boat alongside; alongside of him; alongside of the tree.
• LITTLENESS
  The state or quality of being little; as, littleness of size, thought, duration, power, etc. Syn. -- Smallness; slightness; inconsiderableness; narrowness; insignificance; meanness; penuriousness.
• APPROPRIATE
  Set apart for a particular use or person. Hence: Belonging peculiarly; peculiar; suitable; fit; proper. In its strict and appropriate meaning. Porteus. Appropriate acts of divine worship. Stillingfleet. It is not at all times easy to find words
• ENTICEMENT
  1. The act or practice of alluring or tempting; as, the enticements of evil companions. 2. That which entices, or incites to evil; means of allurement; alluring object; as, an enticement to sin. Syn. -- Allurement; attraction; temptation;
• ENTICEABLE
  Capable of being enticed.
• LITTLE-EASE
  An old slang name for the pillory, stocks, etc., of a prison. Latimer.
• DEFALCATE
  To cut off; to take away or deduct a part of; -- used chiefly of money, accounts, rents, income, etc. (more info) orig., to cut off with a sickle; L. de- + falx, a sickle. See
• FILCHER
  One who filches; a thief.
• BARGAIN
  prob. from a supposed LL. barcaneum, fr. barca a boat which carries merchandise to the shore; hence, to traffic to and fro, to carry on 1. An agreement between parties concerning the sale of property; or a contract by which one party binds himself
• ENTICE
  To draw on, by exciting hope or desire; to allure; to attract; as, the bait enticed the fishes. Often in a bad sense: To lead astray; to induce to evil; to tempt; as, the sirens enticed them to listen. Roses blushing as they blow, And enticing men
• ALONGSHORE
  Along the shore or coast.
• ALONG
  and- (akin to OFris. ond-, OHG. ant-, Ger. ent-, Goth. and-, anda-, 1. By the length; in a line with the length; lengthwise. Some laid along . . . on spokes of wheels are hung. Dryden. 2. In a line, or with a progressive motion; onward; forward.
• FILCHINGLY
  By pilfering or petty stealing.
• ALONGST
  Along.
• BARGAINOR
  One who makes a bargain, or contracts with another; esp., one who sells, or contracts to sell, property to another. Blackstone.
• ALONGSHOREMAN
  See LONGSHOREMAN
• ENTICER
  One who entices; one who incites or allures to evil. Burton.
• BARGAINEE
  The party to a contract who receives, or agrees to receive, the property sold. Blackstone.
• APPRENTICESHIP
  1. The service or condition of an apprentice; the state in which a person is gaining instruction in a trade or art, under legal agreement. 2. The time an apprentice is serving (sometimes seven years, as from the age of fourteen to twenty-one).
• KALONG
  A fruit bat, esp. the Indian edible fruit bat (Pteropus edulis).
• DO-LITTLE
  One who performs little though professing much. Great talkers are commonly dolittles. Bp. Richardson.
• APPRENTICEHOOD
  Apprenticeship.
• UNAPPROPRIATE
  1. Inappropriate; unsuitable. 2. Not appropriated. Bp. Warburton.
• APPRENTICE
  A barrister, considered a learner of law till of sixteen years' standing, when he might be called to the rank of serjeant. Blackstone. (more info) of aprentif, fr. apprendare to learn, L. apprendere, equiv. to apprehendere, to take hold of , to
• PENTICE
  A penthouse. Sir H. Wotton.
• PRENTICE
  An apprentice. Piers Plowman. "My accuser is my prentice." Shak.