Anagrams of: DRAPPIES

• used especially of mail; paid in advance

• a Baptist denomination founded in 1708 by Americans of German descent; opposed to military service and taking legal oaths; practiced trine immersion

• stupefied or excited by a chemical substance (especially alcohol)

• a ladle that has a cup with a long handle

• a cluster of seven stars in Ursa Minor; at the end of the dipper's handle is Polaris

• small North American diving duck; males have bushy head plumage

• a group of seven bright stars in the constellation Ursa Major

• small stocky diving bird without webbed feet; frequents fast-flowing streams and feeds along the bottom

• marked by up-to-dateness in dress and manners

• inform (somebody) of something

• make aware of

• gain in value

• increase the value of

• a reproach for some lapse or misdeed

• a gentle blow

• the sound made by a gentle blow

• voluble conversation

• genre of African-American music of the 1980s and 1990s in which rhyming lyrics are chanted to a musical accompaniment; several forms of rap have emerged

• the act of hitting vigorously

• strike sharply

• make light, repeated taps on a surface

• perform rap music

• talk volubly

• a watery solution of sugars, salts, and minerals that circulates through the vascular system of a plant

• a person who lacks good judgment

• a piece of metal covered by leather with a flexible handle; used for hitting people

• deplete

• excavate the earth beneath

• Excessively sweet, emotional, nostalgic; cheesy; mushy. (British equivalent: soppy)

• Having (a particularly large amount of) sap.

• Juicy.

• (of wood) Spongy; Having spaces in which large quantities of sap can flow.