Tripping: Definition and part of speech

Tripping

  1. p. pr. & vb. n. of Trip
  2. a. Quick; nimble; stepping lightly and quickly.
  3. a. 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.
  4. n. Act of one who, or that which, trips.
  5. n. A light dance.

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.

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