Your ShelfYour Projects
Webster's Dictionary (1865)

3 entries under this word

Drizzle

Driz'zle, v. i.

verbintransitive

v. i. [imp. & p. p. DRIZZLED; p. pr. & vb. n. DRIZZLING.] [Prov. Ger. drieseln, for rieseln. Cf. A-S. dreosan, Goth. driusan, to fall.] To rain gently in very small drops; to fall, as water from the clouds, in very fine and slow particles; as, it drizzles; drizzling drops; drizzling rain.

Drizzling tears did shed for pure affection. Spencer.

Drĭz'zle, v. t.

verbtransitive

v. t. To shed in minute drops or particles. “The air doth drizzle dew.” “Winter’s drizzled snow.” Shak.

Drĭz'zle, n.

noun

n. Fine rain or mist. Halliwell.