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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Trip \Trip\ (tr[i^]p), verb (used without an object) [imp. & p. p. {Tripped} (tr[i^]pt); p. pr. & vb. n. {Tripping}.] [OE. trippen; akin to D. trippen, Dan. trippe, and E. tramp. See {Tramp}.]
1. To move with light, quick steps; to walk or move lightly; to skip; to move the feet nimbly; -- sometimes followed by it. See {It}, 5.
This horse anon began to trip and dance. --Chaucer.
Come, and trip it, as you go, On the light fantastic toe. --Milton.
She bounded by, and tripped so light They had not time to take a steady sight. --Dryden.
2. To make a brief journey or pleasure excursion; as, to trip to Europe.
3. To take a quick step, as when in danger of losing one's balance; hence, to make a false step; to catch the foot; to lose footing; to stumble.
4. Fig.: To be guilty of a misstep; to commit an offense against morality, propriety, or rule; to err; to mistake; to fail. ''Till his tongue trip.'' --Locke.
A blind will thereupon comes to be led by a blind understanding; there is no remedy, but it must trip and stumble. --South.
Virgil is so exact in every word that none can be changed but for a worse; he pretends sometimes to trip, but it is to make you think him in danger when most secure. --Dryden.
What? dost thou verily trip upon a word? --R. Browning.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Tripping \Trip"ping\, noun
1. Act of one who, or that which, trips.
2. A light dance.
Other trippings to be trod of lighter toes. --Milton.
3. (Naut.) The loosing of an anchor from the ground by means of its cable or buoy rope.
{Tripping line} (Naut.), a small rope attached to the topgallant or royal yard, used to trip the yard, and in lowering it to the deck; also, a line used in letting go the anchor. --Luce.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Tripping \Trip"ping\, adjective
1. Quick; nimble; stepping lightly and quickly.
2. (Her.) Having the right forefoot lifted, the others remaining on the ground, as if he were trotting; trippant; -- said of an animal, as a hart, buck, and the like, used as a bearing.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
trip
noun
1: a journey for some purpose (usually including the return); "he took a trip to the shopping center"
2: a hallucinatory experience induced by drugs; "an acid trip"
3: an accidental misstep threatening (or causing) a fall; "he blamed his slip on the ice"; "the jolt caused many slips and a few spills" [syn: {slip}]
4: an exciting or stimulting experience [syn: {head trip}]
5: a catch mechanism that acts as a switch; "the pressure activates the tripper and releases the water" [syn: {tripper}]
6: a light or nimble tread; "he heard the trip of women's feet overhead"
7: an unintentional but embarrassing blunder; "he recited the whole poem without a single trip"; "he arranged his robes to avoid a trip-up later"; "confusion caused his unfortunate misstep" [syn: {trip-up}, {stumble}, {misstep}]
verb
1: miss a step and fall or nearly fall; "She stumbled over the tree root" [syn: {stumble}]
2: cause to stumble; "The questions on the test tripped him up" [syn: {trip up}]
3: make a trip for pleasure [syn: {travel}, {jaunt}]
4: put in motion or move to act; "trigger a reaction"; "actuate the circuits" [syn: {actuate}, {trigger}, {activate}, {set off}, {spark off}, {spark}, {trigger off}, {touch off}]
5: get high, stoned, or drugged; "He trips every weekend" [syn: {trip out}, {turn on}, {get off}] [also: {tripping}, {tripped}]
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
tripping
adjective
1: characterized by a buoyant rhythm; "an easy lilting stride"; "the flute broke into a light lilting air"; "a swinging pace"; "a graceful swingy walk"; "a tripping singing measure" [syn: {lilting}, {swinging}, {swingy}]
2: moving easily and quickly; nimble; "the dancer was light and graceful"; "a lightsome buoyant step"; "walked with a light tripping step" [syn: {light}, {lightsome}]
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
tripping See {trip}
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
26 Moby Thesaurus words for "tripping": balanced, concinnate, concinnous, delirium tremens, dream, easy, elegant, euphonic, euphonical, euphonious, facile, flowing, fluent, graceful, hallucination, hallucinosis, harmonious, measured, mind-expansion, ordered, orderly, pleasing, smooth, smooth-sounding, sweet, symmetrical
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