(ดริฟ'เวิล) { drivelled, driveling, drivels } v ปล่อยให้น้ำมูกหรือน้ำลายไหลย้อนออกมา, พูดเหลวไหล n. คำพูดที่เหลวไหล, น้ำมูกหรือน้ำลายที่ไหลย้อยออกมา., See Also: driveler n. ดูdrivel driveller n. ดูdrivel drivelingly adv. ดูdrivel drivellingly a
v. i. [ imp. & p. p. Driveled r Drivelled; p. pr. & vb. n. Driveling or Drivelling. ] [ Cf. OE. dravelen, drabelen, drevelen, drivelen, to slaver, and E. drabble. Cf. Drool. ] 1. To slaver; to let spittle drop or flow from the mouth, like a child, idiot, or dotard. [ 1913 Webster ]
2. [ Perh. a different word: cf. Icel. drafa to talk thick. ] To be weak or foolish; to dote; as, a driveling hero; driveling love. Shak. Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]
v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Riveled p. pr. & vb. n. Riveling. ] [ AS. gerifled, geriflod, gerifod, wrinkled, geriflian, gerifian, to wrinkle. See Rifle a gun, Rive. ] To contract into wrinkles; to shrivel; to shrink; as, riveled fruit; riveled flowers. [ Obs. ] Pope. “Riveled parchments.” Walpole. [ 1913 Webster ]
v. i. [ imp. & p. p. Shriveled r Shrivelled; p. pr. & vb. n. Shriveling or Shrivelling. ] [ Probably akin to shrimp, shrink; cf. dial. AS. screpa to pine away, Norw. skrypa to waste, skryp, skryv, transitory, frail, Sw. skröpling feeble, Dan. skröbelig, Icel. skrj&unr_;pr brittle, frail. ] To draw, or be drawn, into wrinkles; to shrink, and form corrugations; as, a leaf shriveles in the hot sun; the skin shrivels with age; -- often with up. [ 1913 Webster ]
(adj) (used especially of vegetation) having lost all moisture, Syn. withered, sere, sear, shrivelled, shriveled, Example:dried-up grass; the desert was edged with sere vegetation; shriveled leaves on the unwatered seedlings; withered vines