drizzling

Verb

drizzle (third-person singular simple present drizzles, present participle drizzling, simple past and past participle drizzled)

1. (impersonal) To rain lightly.
   • We had planned a picnic for Joe's birthday, but it ended up drizzling all day.

   Synonyms:

   sprinkle, drip, mizzle, mistle

2. (ambitransitive) To shed slowly in minute drops or particles.
   • And from mine eyes the drizling teares descend,
     As on your boughes the ysicles depend.1579, Immeritô [pseudonym; Edmund Spenser], “Ianuarye. Ægloga Prima.”, in The Shepheardes Calender: […], London: […] Hugh Singleton, […], →OCLC
3. (transitive) To pour slowly and evenly, especially oil or honey in cooking.
   • The recipe says to toss the salad and then drizzle olive oil on it.

   Synonyms:

   dribble

4. (transitive) To cover by pouring in this manner.
   • The recipe says to toss the salad and then drizzle it in olive oil.
5. (slang) To urinate.
   • She'll be right back, had to drizzle before we leave.
6. (dated) To carry out parfilage, the process of unravelling.
   • She found that all those ladies who did not play at cards occupied their fingers with parfilage.[...] Here, the work was called drizzling. Ladies begged their friends to give them pieces of the gold lace used on uniforms and the gold tassels of sword-belts, they picked out the metal threads, and by...1908 January–June, James Knowles, “Extracts from the Journal of Lady Mary Coke”, in The Nineteenth Century And After, volume 63, New York, N.Y.; London: Leonard Scott Publication Co.; Spottiswoode &...

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