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A young or small dove. Booth.

a small sum; a small quantity of money in making up a sum; as, the money was paid in dribblets. When made up in dribblets, as they could, their best securities were at an interest of twelve per cent. Burke.

A little drop; a tear. Shak.

A small drupe, as one of the pulpy grains of the blackberry.

A kind of manstopping bullet; -- so named from Dumdum, in India, where bullets are manufactured for the Indian army.

A young eagle, or a diminutive eagle.

An earring. [Obs.] The Ismaelites were accustomed to wear golden earlets. Judg. viii. 24 (Douay version).

A small circle; a ring. [Obs.] Sir P. Sidney.

Pertaining to, or connected with, the endoskeleton; as, endoskeletal muscles.

cartilaginous, or other internal framework of an animal, as distinguished from the exoskeleton.

A shoulder ornament or badge worn by military and naval officers, differences of rank being marked by some peculiar form or device, as a star, eagle, etc.; a shoulder knot.

Wearing epaulets; decorated with epaulets.

An iron needle for piercing the cartridge of a cannon before priming.

Above or outside of the endoskeleton; epaxial.

A little epistle. Lamb.

Obsolete; out of use; state; insipid. [Obs.]

Pertaining to the exoskeleton; as exoskeletal muscles.

ny reptiles, and the shells or hardened integument of numerous invertebrates; external skeleton; dermoskeleton.

Accomplishment; fulfillment. [Obs.] Killingbeck.

Filling up; hence, added merely for the purpose of filling up; superfluous. "Expletive imagery." Hallam. Expletive phrases to plump his speech. Barrow.