drib

To cut off; chop off.

To cut off little by little; cheat by small and reiterated tricks; purloin.

To entice step by step.

With daily Lies ſhe dribs thee into Coſt; / That Ear-ring dropt a Stone, that Ring is loſt: / They often borrow what they never pay; / What e'er you lend her think it thrown away.

To appropriate unlawfully; to embezzle.

He who drives their bargains dribs a part.

To shoot directly at short range.

A drop.

squandering his money in dribs to the poor