trickle

Founding-era definition · Webster's 1828 American Dictionary

TRICK'LE, verb intransitive [allied perhaps to Gr. to run, and a diminutive.] To flow in a small gentle stream; to run down; as, tears trickle down the cheek; water trickles from the eaves. Fast beside there trickled softly down A gentle stream.
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