trickle

i. [For strickle, a frequent. of Mid. Eng. strike to flow, from A. S. strican to strike (q. v.). ( Skeat.)] 1. To flow in a small gentle stream; to flow or run down in drops. "Here, however, we found fresh water, which trickled down from the top of the rocks." -Cook : First Voyage . bk. iii., ch. i. *2. To flow gently and slowly. "How fluent nonsense trickles from his tongue!" Pope: Dunciad, iii. 201. chin, bench; go, gem; thin, this; triclinium "No tomb shall hold thee But these two arms, no trickments but my tears Over thy hearse." Beaum. & Flet.: Mad Lover, i. trick-sí-ně , subst . [Eng. tricksy ; -ne .] The quality or state of being tricksy or tricky; trickine . "There was none of the latent fun and tricksine ." -G. Eliot: Daniel Deronda, ch. vii. *trick'-some, adj . [Eng. trick; -some.] Full of tricks; tricky. "I have been a tricksome, shifty vagrant." -Lytton: What will he do with it? bk. x., ch. v.