The drippings from the animals falling on the fodder render it poisonous and dangerous to animal life if eaten.
"Special Report on Diseases of Cattle"
U.S. Department of Agriculture J.R. Mohler
Her dress and hair were splashed with drippings from the wax candles; she was wildly decorated with favors from the German, and one of these had been used to pin up a rent which the spur of a hussar had made in her robe; her hair had escaped from its fastenings during the night, and in putting it back she had broken the star in her fillet; it was now kept in place by a bit of black-and-yellow cord which an officer had lent her.
"A Fearful Responsibility and Other Stories"
William D. Howells
Here is a make-believe professor who is not a professor; whose dwarfed conscience is eased by drippings from the Arctic Trust; who has stooped to a photographic humbug.
"My Attainment of the Pole"
Frederick A. Cook