[f. as prec. + -ING2.] That trickles: see the verb.
c. 1375. [see TRICKLE v. 1 a].
1513. Douglas, Æneis, XIII. iv. 23. With habundans of mony trigland teir Wetand thar brestis.
1557. in Tottell’s Misc. (Arb.), 215. Not euery tricklyng teare doth argue inward paine.
c. 1586. C’tess Pembroke, Ps. LXXVIII. vii. The trickling springs to such huge rivers grew.
1665. Sir T. Herbert, Trav. (1677), 181. Rivers … which after a long trickling race … disembogue themselves into the Caspian.
1791. Cowper, Iliad, IV. 170. Stained with thy trickling blood.
1848. Edmeston, Sacr. Poetry (1868), 202. Dry the trickling tear.
