Tric"kle (tr&ibreve;k"k'l), v. i. [imp. & p. p. Trickled (tr&ibreve;k"k'ld); p. pr. & vb. n. Trickling (tr&ibreve;k"kl&ibreve;ng).] [OE. triklen, probably for striklen, freq. of striken to flow, AS. strīcan. See Strike, v. t.] To flow in a small, gentle stream; to run in drops.

His salt tears trickled down as rain.

Fast beside there trickled softly down
A gentle stream.

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.

Tric"kle (tr&ibreve;k"k'l), v. i. [imp. & p. p. Trickled (tr&ibreve;k"k'ld); p. pr. & vb. n. Trickling (tr&ibreve;k"kl&ibreve;ng).] [OE. triklen, probably for striklen, freq. of striken to flow, AS. strīcan. See Strike, v. t.] To flow in a small, gentle stream; to run in drops.

His salt tears trickled down as rain.

Fast beside there trickled softly down
A gentle stream.

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.

• a very thin river
       The brook had shrunk to a mere trickle.
  
• a very thin flow; the act of trickling
       The tap of the washbasin in my bedroom is leaking and the trickle drives me mad at night.
  
• to flow in a very thin stream or drop continuously
       Here the water just trickles along, but later it becomes a torrent.
       The film ws so bad that people trickled out of the cinema before its end.
  
• to pour a liquid in a very thin stream, or so that drops fall continuously
       The doctor trickled some iodine on the wound.