rill
Definitions
noun
A very small brook; a streamlet; a creek, rivulet.
[N]or yet beside the rill / Nor up the lawn, nor at the wood was he
So twice five miles of fertile ground / With walls and towers were girdled round: / And here were gardens bright with sinuous rills, / Where blossom'd many an incense-bearing tree; / And here were forests ancient as the hills, / And folding sunny spots of greenery.
Alternative form of rille.
verb
To trickle, pour, or run like a small stream.
And fainter, finer, trickle far To where the listening uplands are; To pause—then from his gurgling bill Let the warbled sweetness rill, And down the welkin, gushing free, Hark the molten melody;
Alladad Khan was panting hard, soaked in sweat, and his rolled-up sleeve was all blood, blood rilling down his arm.