| trickle | (v) run or flow slowly, as in drops or in an unsteady stream, Syn. filter, dribble, Example: water trickled onto the lawn from the broken hose; reports began to dribble in |
| Trickle | v. i. His salt tears trickled down as rain. Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ] Fast beside there trickled softly down |
| Trickle | 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. ] |