Trip
- n. A flock of widgeons.
- n. i. 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.
- n. i. To make a brief journey or pleasure excursion; as, to trip to Europe.
- n. i. To take a quick step, as when in danger of losing one’s balance; hence, to make a false; to catch the foot; to lose footing; to stumble.
- n. i. Fig.: To be guilty of a misstep; to commit an offense against morality, propriety, or rule; to err; to mistake; to fail.
- 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.
- v. t. Fig.: To overthrow by depriving of support; to put an obstacle in the way of; to obstruct; to cause to fail.
- v. t. To detect in a misstep; to catch; to convict.
- v. t. To raise (an anchor) from the bottom, by its cable or buoy rope, so that it hangs free.
- v. t. To pull (a yard) into a perpendicular position for lowering it.
- 1n. 1 A flock of widgeons.
- 1n. i. 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.
The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.