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A small ovoid or cylindrical roil or pledget of lint, for keeping a sore, wound, etc., open; a tent.

A small point or spot, made with a pen or other pointed instrument; a speck, or small mark.

Marked with, or made of, dots or small spots; diversified with small, detached objects. Dotted note (Mus.), a note followed by a dot to indicate an increase of length equal to one half of its simple value; thus, a dotted semibreve is equal to three minims, and a dotted quarter to three eighth notes. -- Dotted rest, a…

An instrument for augmenting a very small quantity of electricity, so as to render it manifest by sparks or the electroscope.

A small cake (usually sweetened) fried in a kettle of boiling lard.

A small house or box, raised to a considerable height above the ground, and having compartments, in which domestic pigeons breed; a dove house. Like an eagle in a dovecote, I Fluttered your Volscians in Corioli. Shak.

A young or small dove. Booth.

A small annual species of Geranium, native in England; -- so called from the shape of the leaf.

An indefinite small number. Milton. A baker's dozen, thirteen; -- called also a long dozen.

A small arboreal lizard of the genus Draco, of several species, found in the East Indies and Southern Asia. Five or six of the hind ribs, on each side, are prolonged and covered with weblike skin, forming a sort of wing. These prolongations aid them in making long leaps from tree to tree. Called also flying lizard.…

A small British marine fish (Callionymuslyra); -- called also yellow sculpin, fox, and gowdie.

A small piece of artillery. [Obs.] Two or three shots, made at them by a couple of drakes, made them stagger. Clarendon.

To fall in drops or small drops, or in a quick succession of drops; as, water dribbles from the eaves.

A small piece or part; 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 passage driven or cut between shaft and shaft; a driftway; a small subterranean gallery; an adit or tunnel.

A small trickling stream; a rill. [Obs.] Springs through the pleasant meadows pour their drills. Sandys.

ed because they move about in vast armies, and drive away or devour all insects and other small animals.

To rain slightly in very small drops; to fall, as water from the clouds, slowly and in fine particles; as, it drizzles; drizzling drops or rain. "Drizzling tears." Spenser.

Characterized by small rain, or snow; moist and disagreeable. "Winter's drizzly reign." Dryden.

A small craft used in the West India Islands to take off sugars, rum, etc., to the merchantmen; also, a vessel for transporting lumber, cotton, etc., coastwise; as, a lumber drogher. [Written also droger.] Ham. Nar. Encyc.