תִּכְלָא, (preced.) consumption, ruin, decay. Ber. 56ᵃ חזאי דנפל ת׳ בתרתין וכ׳ I saw in my dream that decay had seized two of my fingers. Ib. נפל ת׳ בכולהו שיראי decay (through moths, v. תְּכַךְ II) has seized all the silk garments (of the royal wardrobe). Ḥull. 64ᵇ דשדא ת׳ בכולה for it (the drop of blood on the yolk of an egg) spreads decay over the whole of it.—Pl. תִּכלי, תִּי׳. B. Kam. 92ᵇ שתין ת׳ וכ׳ sixty decays (pains) &c., v. כַּכָּא.