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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.

art; 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 piece of pork cut lower down than the sparerib, and destitute of fat. [Eng.] Southey.

To dribble upon.

A continuation of the petiole, extending from the base to the apex of the lamina of a leaf.

Same as Tetrabasic.

Quadrable. [R.]

Folded lengthwise along the midrib, the upper face being within; -- said of leaves or petals in vernation or æstivation.

A rib or vein of a leaf, especially the midrib.

Having the nerves spring from the midrib.

Cut into distinct parts, by incisions which reach the midrib; - - said of a leaf.

To sow, as seeds, by dribbling them along a furrow or in a row, like a trickling rill of water.

Running or extending out; as, an excurrent midrib, one which projects beyond the apex of a leaf; an excurrent steam or trunk, one which continues to the top.

Having the veins (of a leaf) diverging from the two sides of a midrib.

r bundles or ribs of a leaf, especially when these extend straight from the base or the midrib of the leaf.

Divided, as a palmate leaf, down to the midrib, so that the parenchyma is interrupted.

Cleft so that the divisions reach nearly, but not quite, to the midrib, or the base of the blade; -- said of a leaf, and used chiefly in composition; as, three-parted, five-parted, etc. Gray.