trickle

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trickle - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  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.
     [1913 Webster]
  
           His salt tears trickled down as rain.    --Chaucer.
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           Fast beside there trickled softly down
           A gentle stream.                         --Spenser.
     [1913 Webster]

  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.]

trickle - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  trickle
      n 1: flowing in drops; the formation and falling of drops of
           liquid; "there's a drip through the roof" [syn: drip,
           trickle, dribble]
      v 1: 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: trickle, dribble,
           filter]

trickle - Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 :

  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