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One who describes.

vective harangue; a strain of abusive or railing language; a philippic. The ephemeral diatribe of a faction. John Morley.

One who makes a diatribe or diatribes.

Capable of being distributed. Sir W. Jones.

Tending to distribute or be distributed; that distributes; distributive.

To divide among several or many; to deal out; to apportion; to allot. She did distribute her goods to all them that were nearest of kindred. Judith xvi. 24.

One who, or that which, distributes or deals out anything; a dispenser. Addison.

That distributes; dealing out. Distributing past office, an office where the mails for a large district are collected to be assorted according to their destination and forwarded.

The act of distributing or dispensing; the act of dividing or apportioning among several or many; apportionment; as, the distribution of an estate among heirs or children. The phenomena of geological distribution are exactly analogous to those of geography. A. R. Wallace.

Of or pertaining to distribution. Huxley.

A distributer. [R.] Dickens.

Tending to distribute; serving to divide and assign in portions; dealing to each his proper share. "Distributive justice." Swift.

By distribution; singly; not collectively; in a distributive manner.

Quality of being distributive.

A machine for distributing type.

To appropriate unlawfully; to filch; to defalcate. He who drives their bargain dribs a part. Dryden.

One who dribs; one who shoots weakly or badly. [Obs.] Ascham.

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

One who dribbles.

rt; 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.