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English Dictionary: trickling by the DICT Development Group
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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Trickle \Tric"kle\ (tr[icr]k"k'l), v. i. [imp. & p. p.
      {Trickled} (tr[icr]k"k'ld); p. pr. & vb. n. {Trickling}
      (tr[icr]k"kl[icr]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.
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