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   Trip , v. i. [imp. & p. p. Tripped ; p. pr. & vb. n. Tripping.] [OE. trippen; akin to D. trippen, Dan. trippe, and E. tramp. See Tramp.]
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   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.
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   This horse anon began to trip and dance.
   Chaucer.
   
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   Come, and trip it, as you go,
   On the light fantastic toe.
   Milton.
   
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   She bounded by, and tripped so light
   They had not time to take a steady sight.
   Dryden.
   
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   To make a brief journey or pleasure excursion; as, to trip to Europe.
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   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.
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   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.
   
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   A blind will thereupon comes to be led by a blind understanding; there is no remedy, but it must trip and stumble.
   South.
   
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   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.
   
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   What? dost thou verily trip upon a word?
   R. Browning.
   
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   Trip, v. t.
   To cause to stumble, or take a false step; to cause to lose the footing, by striking the feet from under; to cause to fall; to throw off the balance; to supplant; -- often followed by up; as, to trip up a man in wrestling.
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   The words of Hobbes's defense trip up the heels of his cause.
   Abp. Bramhall.
   
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   (Fig.): To overthrow by depriving of support; to put an obstacle in the way of; to obstruct; to cause to fail.
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   To trip the course of law, and blunt the sword.
   Shak.
   
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   To detect in a misstep; to catch; to convict; also called trip up. [R.]
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   These her women can trip me if I err.
   Shak.
   
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   (Naut.) (a) To raise (an anchor) from the bottom, by its cable or buoy rope, so that it hangs free. (b) To pull (a yard) into a perpendicular position for lowering it.
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   (Mach.) To release, let fall, or set free, as a weight or compressed spring, as by removing a latch or detent; to activate by moving a release mechanism, often unintentionally; as, to trip an alarm.
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   Trip, n.
   A quick, light step; a lively movement of the feet; a skip.
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   His heart bounded as he sometimes could hear the trip of a light female step glide to or from the door.
   Sir W. Scott.
   
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   A brief or rapid journey; an excursion or jaunt.
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   I took a trip to London on the death of the queen.
   Pope.
   
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   A false step; a stumble; a misstep; a loss of footing or balance. Fig.: An error; a failure; a mistake.
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   Imperfect words, with childish trips.
   Milton.
   
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   Each seeming trip, and each digressive start.
   Harte.
   
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   A small piece; a morsel; a bit. [Obs.] “A trip of cheese.”  
   Chaucer.
   
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   A stroke, or catch, by which a wrestler causes his antagonist to lose footing.
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   And watches with a trip his foe to foil.
   Dryden.
   
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   It is the sudden trip in wrestling that fetches a man to the ground.
   South.
   
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   (Naut.) A single board, or tack, in plying, or beating, to windward.
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   A herd or flock, as of sheep, goats, etc. [Prov. Eng. & Scott.]
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   A troop of men; a host. [Obs.]
   Robert of Brunne.
   
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   (Zool.) A flock of widgeons.
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