Hypertext Webster Gateway: "driblet"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
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 an interest of twelve per cent.
--Burke.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
driblet
n : a small quantity of liquid; "one drop of each sample was
analyzed"; "any child with a drop of negro blood was
legally a negro" [syn: {drop}]
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