Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary · 1913

Drip

Drip , intransitive verb

[Akin to LG. drippen, Danish dryppe, from a noun. See Drop.]

1.
To fall in drops; as, water drips from the eaves.
2.
To let fall drops of moisture or liquid; as, a wet garment drips.
The dark round of the dripping wheel. — Tennyson

Drip , transitive verb

To let fall in drops.
Which from the thatch drips fast a shower of rain. — Swift

Drip , noun

1.
A falling or letting fall in drops; a dripping; that which drips, or falls in drops.
The light drip of the suspended oar. — Byron
2.
(Architecture) That part of a cornice, sill course, or other horizontal member, which projects beyond the rest, and is of such section as to throw off the rain water.
Collocations (1)
Right of drip (Law) , an easement or servitude by which a man has the right to have the water flowing from his house fall on the land of his neighbor.