Hypertext Webster Gateway: "trickle"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
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.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
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.
His salt tears trickled down as rain. --Chaucer.
Fast beside there trickled softly down A gentle stream.
--Spenser.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
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, or in an unsteady stream: "reports began
to dribble in." [syn: {dribble}, {filter}]
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