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| From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
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Trod \Trod\, imp. & p. p. of {Tread}. | |
| From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
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Tread \Tread\, v. i. [imp. {Trod}; p. p. {Trodden}, {Trod}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Treading}.] [OE. treden, AS. tredan; akin to OFries. treda, OS. tredan, D. & LG. treden, G. treten, OHG. tretan, Icel. tro[?]a, Sw. tr[86]da, tr[84]da, Dan. tr[91]de, Goth. trudan, and perhaps ultimately to F. tramp; cf. Gr. [?] a running, Skr. dram to run. Cf. {Trade}, {Tramp}, {Trot}.] 1. To set the foot; to step. Where'er you tread, the blushing flowers shall rise. --Pope. Fools rush in where angels fear to tread. --Pope. The hard stone Under our feet, on which we tread and go. --Chaucer. 2. To walk or go; especially, to walk with a stately or a cautious step. Ye that . . . stately tread, or lowly creep. --Milton. 3. To copulate; said of birds, esp. the males. --Shak. {To tread on} [or] {upon}. (a) To trample; to set the foot on in contempt. [bd]Thou shalt tread upon their high places.[b8] --Deut. xxxiii. 29. (b) to follow closely. [bd]Year treads on year.[b8] --Wordsworth. {To tread upon the heels of}, to follow close upon. [bd]Dreadful consequences that tread upon the heels of those allowances to sin.[b8] --Milton. One woe doth tread upon another's heel. --Shak. | |
