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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.

An instrument to strike grain to a level with the measure; a strike.

See Strickle.

See Strickle. [Prov. Eng.]

To drop; to fall in drops; to trickle. Soft showers distilled, and suns grew warm in vain. Pope.

To trickle. [Obs. or R.] Sandys.

The watery eye; a disease in which the tears accumulate in the eye, and trickle over the cheek.

of strong tubes with very little water space, kept nearly red hot so that the water as it trickles drop by drop into the tubes is immediately flashed into steam and superheated.

ve, not barren. -- Quick vinegar, vinegar made by allowing a weak solution of alcohol to trickle slowly over shavings or other porous material. -- Quick water, quicksilver water. -- Quick with child, pregnant with a living child.

To percolate, trickle, or ooze, as water through a crack. [Also written sigger, zigger, and zifhyr.] [Prov. Eng.]

measure of grain, salt, and the like, scraping off what is above the level of the top; a strickle.

See Strickle.

boo frame or trellis hung at a door or window of a house, over which water is suffered to trickle, in order to moisten and cool the air as it enters. [India]

To flow in a small stream, or in drops rapidly succeeding each other; to trickle. Sir W. Scott. And now and then an ample tear trilled down Her delicate cheek. Shak. Whispered sounds Of waters, trilling from the riven stone. Glover.