Trickle \Tric"kle\ (tr[i^]k"k'l), v. i. [imp. & p. p. Trickled
(tr[i^]k"k'ld); p. pr. & vb. n. Trickling
(tr[i^]k"kl[i^]ng).] [OE. triklen, probably for striklen,
freq. of striken to flow, AS. str[imac]can. See Strike, v.
t.]
To flow in a small, gentle stream; to run in drops.
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His salt tears trickled down as rain. --Chaucer.
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Fast beside there trickled softly down
A gentle stream. --Spenser.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Trickle \Tric"kle\, n.
The act or state of trickling; also, that which trickles; a
small stream; drip.
Streams that . . . are short and rapid torrents after a
storm, but at other times dwindle to feeble trickles of
mud. --James Bryce.
[Webster 1913 Suppl.]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
trickle
n : flowing in drops; the formation and falling of drops of
liquid; "there's a drip through the roof" [syn: drip, dribble]
v : run or flow slowly, as in drops or in an unsteady stream;
"water trickled onto the lawn from the broken hose";
"reports began to dribble in" [syn: dribble, filter]
WordNet (r) 2.0
50 Moby Thesaurus words for "trickle":
a few, condensation, condense, distill, distillation, dribble,
drip, dripping, drippings, dripple, drizzle, drop, exude, filter,
flow, gurgle, handful, leach, leaching, leak, leak out, leakage,
leaking, limited number, lixiviate, lixiviation, only a few, ooze,
percolate, percolation, piddling few, piddling number, rivulet,
run, runlet, runnel, scattering, seep, seepage, seeping,
small number, spill, sprinkling, spurtle, sweat, sweating, too few,
tricklet, trill, weep
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
dribble, drip, filter
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