Trickle /(trĭk"k'l)/

imp. & p. p. Trickled; p. pr. & vb. n. Trickling

1. 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.

1. 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.