Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Definition for TRICK'LE
TRICK'LE, v.i. [allied perhaps to Gr. τρεχω, 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. Spenser.
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