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   path (pȧth), n.; pl. paths (pȧthz). [AS. pæð, pað; akin to D. pad, G. pfad, of uncertain origin; cf. Gr. πάτος, Skr. patha, path. √21.]
   1. A trodden way; a footway.
   
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   The dewy paths of meadows we will tread. Dryden.
   
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   2. A way, course, or track, in which anything moves or has moved; route; passage; an established way; as, “the path of a meteor, of a caravan, of a storm, of a pestilence”. Also used figuratively, of a course of life or action.
   
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   All the paths of the Lord are mercy and truth. Ps. xxv. 10.
   
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   The paths of glory lead but to the grave. Gray.
   
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   Path (pȧth), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Pathed (pȧthd); p. pr. & vb. n. Pathing.] To make a path in, or on (something), or for (some one). [R.] “Pathing young Henry's unadvised ways.”  Drayton.
   
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   Path, v. i. To walk or go. [R.]  Shak.
   
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