drip

1. To fall one drop at a time.

   Listening to the tap next door drip all night drove me mad!

2. To leak slowly.

   Does the sink drip, or have I just spilt water over the floor?

3. To let fall in drops.

   After putting oil on the side of the salad, the chef should drip a little vinegar in the oil.

4. (usually with with) To have a superabundance of valuable things.

   The Old Hall simply drips with masterpieces of the Flemish painters.

5. (of the weather) To rain lightly.

   The weather isn't so bad. I mean, it's dripping, but you're not going to get so wet.

6. To be wet, to be soaked.
7. To whine or complain consistently; to grumble.

1. A drop of a liquid.

   I put a drip of vanilla extract in my hot cocoa.

2. A falling or letting fall in drops; act of dripping.
3. An apparatus that slowly releases a liquid, especially one that intravenously releases drugs into a patient's bloodstream.

   He's not doing so well. The doctors have put him on a drip.

4. A limp, ineffectual, or uninteresting person.

   He couldn't even summon up the courage to ask her name... what a drip!

5. That part of a cornice, sill course, or other horizontal member, which projects beyond the rest, and has a section designed to throw off rainwater.

noun

A dividend reinvestment program; a type of financial investing.