\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.

\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.