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   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. troa, Sw. tråda, träda, Dan. træde, Goth. trudan, and perhaps ultimately to F. tramp; cf. Gr.  a running, Skr. dram to run. Cf. Trade, Tramp, Trot.]
   To set the foot; to step.
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   Where'er you tread, the blushing flowers shall rise.
   Pope.
   
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   Fools rush in where angels fear to tread.
   Pope.
   
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   The hard stone
   Under our feet, on which we tread and go.
   Chaucer.
   
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   To walk or go; especially, to walk with a stately or a cautious step.
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   Ye that . . . stately tread, or lowly creep.
   Milton.
   
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   To copulate; said of birds, esp. the males.
   Shak.
   
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   To tread on or To tread upon. (a) To trample; to set the foot on in contempt. “Thou shalt tread upon their high places.” Deut. xxxiii. 29. (b) to follow closely. “Year treads on year.” Wordsworth. -- To tread upon the heels of, to follow close upon. “Dreadful consequences that tread upon the heels of those allowances to sin.” Milton.
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   One woe doth tread upon another's heel.
   Shak.
   
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   Tread, v. t.
   To step or walk on.
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   Forbid to tread the promised land he saw.
   Prior.
   
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   Methought she trod the ground with greater grace.
   Dryden.
   
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   To beat or press with the feet; as, to tread a path; to tread land when too light; a well-trodden path.
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   To go through or accomplish by walking, dancing, or the like. “ I am resolved to forsake Malta, tread a pilgrimage to fair Jerusalem.” 
   Beau. & Fl.
   
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   They have measured many a mile,
   To tread a measure with you on this grass.
   Shak.
   
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   To crush under the foot; to trample in contempt or hatred; to subdue.
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   Through thy name will we tread them under that rise up against us.
   Ps. xliv. 5.
   
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   To copulate with; to feather; to cover; -- said of the male bird.
   Chaucer.
   
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   To tread out, to press out with the feet; to press out, as wine or wheat; as, to tread out grain with cattle or horses. -- To tread the stage, to act as a stageplayer; to perform a part in a drama.
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   Tread, n.
   A step or stepping; pressure with the foot; a footstep; as, a nimble tread; a cautious tread.
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   She is coming, my own, my sweet;
   Were it ever so airy a tread,
   My heart would hear her and beat.
   Tennyson.
   
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   Manner or style of stepping; action; gait; as, the horse has a good tread.
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   Way; track; path. [R.]
   Shak.
   
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   The act of copulation in birds.
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   (Arch.) The upper horizontal part of a step, on which the foot is placed.
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   (Fort.) The top of the banquette, on which soldiers stand to fire over the parapet.
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   (Mach.) (a) The part of a wheel that bears upon the road or rail. (b) The part of a rail upon which car wheels bear.
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   (Biol.) The chalaza of a bird's egg; the treadle.
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   (Far.) A bruise or abrasion produced on the foot or ankle of a horse that interferes. See Interfere, 3.
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