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  3  definitions  found 
 
  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  1.6  [wn]: 
 
  trickle 
  n  :  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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