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Tiny amount
Answer for the clue "Tiny amount ", 7 letters:
driblet
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Word definitions for driblet in dictionaries
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1590s, diminutive of drib (n.).
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
alt. 1 A small portion or part. 2 A small or petty sum. n. 1 A small portion or part. 2 A small or petty sum.
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. a small quantity (especially of a liquid); "one drop of each sample was analyzed"; "any child with a drop of negro blood was legally a negro"; "there is not a drop of pity in that man" [syn: drop ]
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Dribblet \Drib"blet\, Driblet \Drib"let\, n. [From Dribble .] A small piece or part; 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 ...
Usage examples of driblet.
At this point the continents split and rapidly separated east and west, leaving a green ocean between their land legs, dotted with several large islands and driblets of isles in the southern hemisphere.
It was gray and sweated driblets of mud, but the features were indisputably human.
Ceremonial Inquisitor also was reft speechless, while the ranked candles burned, the white beeswax run liquid and refrozen in grotesque, clumped driblets.
The first driblets of professional tourists and summer boarders who arrived among the Adirondack Mountains a few years ago found Old Phelps the chief and best guide of the region.
It was gray and sweated driblets of mud, but the features were indisputably human.
Other nations who have no such right may take it out in occasional driblets, odd moments that come, no doubt, to men and races who have no privilege of voting, or to such favored places as New York city, whose government is always the same, however they vote.
It is these little driblets, distributed among too many, that do the harm.
No oil left, no coal left - if Mars ever had a Carboniferous Age - and no water-power - just the driblets of energy they can get from the sun.
Just give me the driblets you're willing to dole out, and let me worry whether what you don't care to tell me will stab me in the night.