Trip

Definition of Trip

Pronunciation: trĭp

v. i.	1.	[imp. & p. p. Tripped (trĭpt); p. pr. & vb. n. Tripping.]
	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. This horse anon began to trip and dance. - Chaucer. Come, and trip it, as you go, On the light fantastic toe. - Milton. She bounded by, and tripped so light They had not time to take a steady sight. - Dryden.
	2.	To make a brief journey or pleasure excursion; as, to trip to Europe.
	3.	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.
	4.	Fig.: To be guilty of a misstep; to commit an offense against morality, propriety, or rule; to err; to mistake; to fail. A blind will thereupon comes to be led by a blind understanding; there is no remedy, but it must trip and stumble. - South. 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. What? dost thou verily trip upon a word? - R. Browning.
v. t.	1.	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. The words of Hobbes's defense trip up the heels of his cause. - Abp. Bramhall.
	2.	To overthrow by depriving of support; to put an obstacle in the way of; to obstruct; to cause to fail. To trip the course of law, and blunt the sword. - Shak.
	3.	To detect in a misstep; to catch; to convict; also called trip up. These her women can trip me if I err. - Shak.
	4.	(Naut.) To raise (an anchor) from the bottom, by its cable or buoy rope, so that it hangs free.
	5.	(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.
n.	1.	A quick, light step; a lively movement of the feet; a skip. His heart bounded as he sometimes could hear the trip of a light female step glide to or from the door. - Sir W. Scott.
	2.	A brief or rapid journey; an excursion or jaunt. I took a trip to London on the death of the queen. - Pope.
	3.	A false step; a stumble; a misstep; a loss of footing or balance. Fig.: An error; a failure; a mistake. Imperfect words, with childish trips. - Milton. Each seeming trip, and each digressive start. - Harte.
	4.	A small piece; a morsel; a bit.
	5.	A stroke, or catch, by which a wrestler causes his antagonist to lose footing. And watches with a trip his foe to foil. - Dryden. It is the sudden trip in wrestling that fetches a man to the ground. - South.
	6.	(Naut.) A single board, or tack, in plying, or beating, to windward.
	7.	A herd or flock, as of sheep, goats, etc.
	8.	A troop of men; a host.
	9.	(Zool.) A flock of widgeons.

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