单词 | dripping |
释义 | drippingn. 1. The fall of liquid in drops; concrete the liquid so falling. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > liquid > liquid flow > action or process of dripping or falling in drops > [noun] droppingc1000 drippingc1440 stilling1530 trickling1629 dropa1637 drip1675 drip feed1899 the world > matter > liquid > liquid flow > action or process of dripping or falling in drops > [noun] > liquid which dropping1398 water dropa1475 drippinga1635 drip1704 c1440 Promptorium Parvulorum 132/2 Dryppynge, or droppynge, stillacio. a1635 R. Corbet On J. Dawson (R.) O ye barrels! let your drippings fall In trickling streams. a1816 R. 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 plural. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > fat or oil > [noun] > dripping or skimming flotc1400 flotessec1440 dripping1463 range1469 kitchen-feec1485 kitchen stuff1565 kitchen-gain1589 gag1820 beef-fat1836 fond1965 1463 [implied in: Act 3 Edw. IV c. 4 Hamers, pinsons, firetonges, drepyngpannes. (at dripping-pan n.)]. 1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 215/1 Drepyng of rost meate, la gresse du rost. 1552 R. Huloet Abcedarium Anglico Latinum Drippinges of rost. 1601 P. Holland tr. Pliny Hist. World II. 385 The dripping or grauie that commeth from a rams lights rosted. ?1721 J. Swift Jrnl. (single sheet) For Candles..she trucks her Driping. 1826 W. Scott Let. 16 Jan. (1935) IX. 367 A good sirloin which requires only to be basted with its own drippings. 1887 R. N. Carey Uncle Max viii. 67 A piece of bread and dripping. ΘΚΠ the world > space > relative position > inclination > [noun] > inclination from the level or slope > a sloping object, surface, etc. > to carry off water dripping1735 society > occupation and work > industry > building or constructing > building or providing with specific parts > specific parts built or constructed > [noun] > other specific parts panel1498 pane1582 well-curb1665 through-work1686 gathering1703 dripping1735 sweep1766 bridging1774 accouplement1823 sweep-work1847 1735 W. Pardon Dyche's New Gen. Eng. Dict. Dripping,..the Inclination or angular Slant of a Pent-house. 1742 G. Leoni Notes I. Jones in N. Dubois & G. Leoni tr. A. Palladio Architecture (ed. 3) I. ii. 71/1 The Dripping of the Pavement. Compounds attributive and in other combinations. Also dripping-pan n. dripping-board n. a board from which water drips. ΚΠ 1865 J. T. F. Turner Familiar Descr. Old Delabole 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. dripping-cake n. a cake made with dripping. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > dishes and prepared food > cake > [noun] > a cake > other cakes honey appleeOE barley-cake1393 seed cakea1400 cake?a1425 pudding-cake?1553 manchet1562 biscuit cake1593 placent1598 poplin1600 jumbal1615 bread pudding1623 semel1643 wine-cakea1661 Shrewsbury cake1670 curd cake1675 fruitcake1687 clap-bread1691 simnel cake1699 orange-flower cake1718 banana cake1726 sweet-cake1726 torte1748 Naples cake1766 Bath cake1769 gofer1769 yeast-cake1795 nutcake1801 tipsy-cake1806 cruller1808 baba1813 lady's finger1818 coconut cake1824 mint cake1825 sices1825 cup-cake1828 batter-cake1830 buckwheat1830 Dundee seed cake1833 fat-cake1839 babka1846 wonder1848 popover1850 cream-cake1855 sly-cake1855 dripping-cake1857 lard-cake1858 puffet1860 quick cake1865 barnbrack1867 matrimony cake1871 brioche1873 Nelson cake1877 cocoa cake1883 sesame cake1883 marinade1888 mystery1889 oblietjie1890 stuffed monkey1892 Greek bread1893 Battenberg1903 Oswego cake1907 nusstorte1911 dump cake1912 Dobos Torte1915 lekach1918 buckle1935 Florentine1936 hash cake1967 space cake1984 1857 T. Hughes Tom Brown's School Days ii. viii. 401 The excellence of that mysterious condiment, a dripping cake. dripping crust n. a pastry crust made with dripping. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > dishes and prepared food > pastry > [noun] > pastry crust or case coffinc1420 rollera1475 pasty crust1562 custard coffin1581 piecrust1582 crust1598 kissing-crust1708 dripping crust1747 short crust1747 standing crust1747 huff1787 croustade1845 turban1846 1747 H. Glasse Art of Cookery viii. 75 A Dripping Crust... Beef-dripping..work it well up into..Flour. 1906 Mrs. Beeton's Bk. Househ. Managem. (rev. ed.) xxxi. 883 Dripping Crust. (For Plain Pies and Puddings). dripping toast n. toast spread with dripping. ΚΠ 1921 W. de la Mare Crossings 14 Maybe you'll come and have a bit of dripping toast to your tea. dripping-vat n. (see quot.). ΚΠ 1874 E. H. Knight Pract. Dict. Mech. Dripping-vat, a tank beneath a boiler..to catch the overflow or drip, as..in indigo-factories. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1897; most recently modified version published online December 2020). drippingadj. 1. a. That drips; having liquid falling off in drops. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > liquid > liquid flow > action or process of dripping or falling in drops > [adjective] > having liquid falling off in drops droppinga1415 dripping1783 adrip1830 crystal-dropping1933 dribbly1951 1783 W. Cowper Rose 10 A nosegay, so dripping and drowned. 1801 R. Southey Thalaba II. xi. 292 His back and dripping wings Half opened to the wind. 1833 H. Martineau Cinnamon & Pearls vi. 109 The other girls wrung out their dripping hair. b. Of weather: Wet, continuously rainy. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > weather and the atmosphere > weather > wet weather > [adjective] > wet (of weather, place, or time) > rainy rainyOE rainyOE rainingc1400 droppinga1415 pluvious?1440 rainful1484 weeping1600 droppy1635 slattering1648 dripping1699 drippy1818 softish1855 feechie1975 1699 Poor Man's Plea against Price of Corn 7 They had a dripping Harvest. 1792 Trans. Soc. Arts 10 99 In any dripping year, you will not fail of two hundred bushels to an acre. 1894 Mrs. H. Ward Marcella III. iv. i. 250 A dripping September day. c. dripping eaves n. See quot. ΚΠ 1847 J. Craig New Universal Dict. Dripping-eaves, the lower edges of the roof of a building from which the rain drips to the ground. 1849 E. A. Freeman Hist. Archit. 189 The towers sometimes have octagonal spires of wood with dripping eaves. 2. quasi-adv. in dripping wet. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > liquid > condition of being or making wet > [adverb] wetly1562 dripping wet1840 1840 F. Marryat S.W. & by W. in Olla Podrida The master..came down dripping wet. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1897; most recently modified version published online December 2019). < n.c1440adj.1699 |
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