Word Meanings - TRICKLE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

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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• DROPSICAL
  1. Diseased with dropsy; hydropical; tending to dropsy; as, a dropsical patient. 2. Of or pertaining to dropsy.
• THEREAGAIN
  In opposition; against one's course. If that him list to stand thereagain. Chaucer.
• THERETO
  1. To that or this. Chaucer. 2. Besides; moreover. Spenser. Her mouth full small, and thereto soft and red. Chaucer.
• DROPSICALNESS
  State of being dropsical.
• BESIDE
  1. At the side of; on one side of. "Beside him hung his bow." Milton. 2. Aside from; out of the regular course or order of; in a state of deviation from; out of. have done enough To put him quite beside his patience. Shak. 3. Over and
• THEREBEFORE; THEREBIFORN
  Before that time; beforehand. Many a winter therebiforn. Chaucer.
• THEREOUT
  1. Out of that or this. He shall take thereout his handful of the flour. Lev. ii. 2. 2. On the outside; out of doors. Chaucer.
• SMALLISH
  Somewhat small. G. W. Cable.
• THEREUNDER
  Under that or this.
• STREAMLET
  A small stream; a rivulet; a rill.
• STREAM WHEEL
  A wheel used for measuring, by its motion when submerged, the velocity of flowing water; a current wheel.
• THEREAFTER
  1. After that; afterward. 2. According to that; accordingly. I deny not but that it is of greatest concernment in the church and commonwealth to have a vigilant eye how books demean themselves as well as men; and thereafter to confine, imprison,
• GENTLEWOMAN
  1. A woman of good family or of good breeding; a woman above the vulgar. Bacon. 2. A woman who attends a lady of high rank. Shak.
• SOFTLY
  In a soft manner.
• THERE-ANENT
  Concerning that.
• SMALLCLOTHES
  A man's garment for the hips and thighs; breeches. See Breeches.
• STREAM CLOCK
  An instrument for ascertaining the velocity of the blood in a vessel.
• SMALLPOX
  A contagious, constitutional, febrile disease characterized by a peculiar eruption; variola. The cutaneous eruption is at first a collection of papules which become vesicles (first flat, subsequently umbilicated) and then pustules, and finally thick
• THEREOF
  Of that or this. In the day that thou eatest thereof, thou shalt surely die. Gen. ii.
• GENTLE-HEARTED
  Having a kind or gentle disposition. Shak. -- Gen"tle-heart`ed*ness, n.
• UNMOTHERED
  Deprived of a mother; motherless.
• DISMALLY
  In a dismal manner; gloomily; sorrowfully; uncomfortably.
• ETHEREALITY
  The state of being ethereal; etherealness. Something of that ethereality of thought and manner which belonged to Wordsworth's earlier lyrics. J. C. Shairp.
• TAXGATHERER
  One who collects taxes or revenues. -- Tax"gath`er*ing, n.
• ETHEREALLY
  In an ethereal manner.
• UPSTREAM
  Toward the higher part of a stream; against the current.
• PINFEATHERED
  Having part, or all, of the feathers imperfectly developed.
• DINOTHERE; DINOTHERIUM
  A large extinct proboscidean mammal from the miocene beds of Europe and Asia. It is remarkable fora pair of tusks directed downward from the decurved apex of the lower jaw.
• STRICKLE
  An instrument used for smoothing the surface of a core. (more info) 1. An instrument to strike grain to a level with the measure; a strike. 2. An instrument for whetting scythes; a rifle.
• DISPENSER
  One who, or that which, dispenses; a distributer; as, a dispenser of favors.
• ETHEREAL
  Pertaining to, derived from, or resembling, ether; as, ethereal salts. Ethereal oil. See Essential oil, under Essential. -- Ethereal oil of wine , a heavy, yellow, oily liquid consisting essentially of etherin, etherol, and ethyl sulphate. It