drizzle

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

2. (ambitransitive) To shed slowly in minute drops or particles.Examples: "And from mine eyes the drizling teares descend, As on your boughes the ysicles depend."; "When the sun sets, the air doth drizzle dew; But for the sunset of my brother’s son It rains downright."ambitransitive

3. (cooking, transitive) To pour slowly and evenly, especially oil or honey in cooking.Examples: "The recipe says to toss the salad and then drizzle olive oil on it."Synonyms: dribbletransitive

4. (cooking, transitive) To cover by pouring in this manner.Examples: "The recipe says to toss the salad and then drizzle it in olive oil."transitive

5. (slang) To urinate.Examples: "She'll be right back, had to drizzle before we leave."slang

6. (dated) To carry out parfilage, the process of unravelling.Examples: "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 selling these they realised considerable sums. Prince Leopold himself drizzled continually[...]"dated