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Drizzle definitions

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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

DRIZZLE, v.i. [G., L.] To rain in small drops; to fall as water from the clouds in very fine particles. We say, it drizzles; drizzling drops; drizzling rain; drizzling tears.
DRIZZLE, v.t. To shed in small drops or particles.
The air doth drizzle dew.
Winters drizzled snow.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

n
1: very light rain; stronger than mist but less than a shower [syn: drizzle, mizzle] v
1: rain lightly; "When it drizzles in summer, hiking can be pleasant" [syn: drizzle, mizzle]
2: moisten with fine drops; "drizzle the meat with melted butter" [syn: drizzle, moisten]

Merriam Webster's

I. noun Date: 1554 1. a fine misty rain 2. something that is drizzled <a drizzle of syrup> • drizzly adjective II. verb (drizzled; drizzling) Etymology: perhaps alteration of Middle English drysnen to fall, from Old English -drysnian to disappear; akin to Gothic driusan to fall Date: 1584 transitive verb 1. to shed or let fall in minute drops or particles 2. to make wet with minute drops ; sprinkle <vegetables drizzled with olive oil> intransitive verb to rain in very small drops or very lightly ; sprinkle • drizzlingly adverb

NOAA Weather Glossary

Small, slowly falling water droplets, with diameters between .2 and .5 millimeters.

Oxford Reference Dictionary

n. & v. --n. very fine rain. --v.intr. (esp. of rain) fall in very fine drops (it's drizzling again). Derivatives: drizzly adj. Etymology: prob. f. ME drese, OE dreosan fall

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Ling Ling (l[i^]ng), n. [OE. lenge; akin to D. leng, G. l["a]nge, Dan. lange, Sw. l[*a]nga, Icel. langa. So named from its being long. See Long, a.] (Zo["o]l.) (a) A large, marine, gadoid fish (Molva vulgaris) of Northern Europe and Greenland. It is valued as a food fish and is largely salted and dried. Called also drizzle. (b) The burbot of Lake Ontario. (c) An American hake of the genus Phycis. [Canada] (d) A New Zealand food fish of the genus Genypterus. The name is also locally applied to other fishes, as the cultus cod, the mutton fish, and the cobia.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Drizzle Driz"zle, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Drizzled; p. pr. & vb. n. Drizzling.] [Prop. freq. of AS. dre['o]san to fall. See Dreary.] 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.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Drizzle Driz"zle, v. t. To shed slowly in minute drops or particles. ``The air doth drizzle dew.'' --Shak.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Drizzle Driz"zle, n. Fine rain or mist. --Halliwell.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

(drizzles, drizzling, drizzled) 1. Drizzle is light rain falling in fine drops. The drizzle had now stopped and the sun was breaking through. N-UNCOUNT: also a N 2. If it is drizzling, it is raining very lightly. Clouds had come down and it was starting to drizzle... VERB: it V

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

v. n. Rain (in small drops), mizzle.

Moby Thesaurus

Scotch mist, blood rain, drum, evening mist, fall, flurry, gout of rain, mist, misty rain, mizzle, moisture, patter, pelt, pitter-patter, pour, pour with rain, precipitate, precipitation, rain, rain tadpoles, raindrop, rainfall, rainwater, sheet of rain, shower, shower down, spatter, spit, splatter, sprinkle, stream, tattoo, unfrozen hydrometeor, weep, wet