a. [ OE. brekil, brokel, bruchel, fr. AS. brecan, E. break. Cf. Brittle. ] Brittle; easily broken. [ Obs. or Prov. ] Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]
As stubborn steel excels the brickle glass. Turbervile. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. Brittleness. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]
n. A bushel basket. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]
n. [ AS. pricele, pricle; akin to LG. prickel, D. prikkel. See Prick, n. ]
v. t. To prick slightly, as with prickles, or fine, sharp points. [ 1913 Webster ]
Felt a horror over me creep,
Prickle skin, and catch my breath. Tennyson. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. [ See Strike. ]
n. See Strickle. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. See Strickle. [ Prov. Eng. ] [ 1913 Webster ]
v. i.
His salt tears trickled down as rain. Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]
Fast beside there trickled softly down
A gentle stream. Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. 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. James Bryce. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]