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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. tro&unr_;a, Sw. tråda, tr&ä;da, Dan. træde, Goth. trudan, and perhaps ultimately to F. tramp; cf. Gr. &unr_; a running, Skr. dram to run. Cf. Trade, Tramp, Trot.] 1. 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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2. 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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3. 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. 1. 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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2. 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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3. 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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4. 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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5. 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. 1. 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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2. Manner or style of stepping; action; gait; as, the horse has a good tread.
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3. Way; track; path. [R.] Shak.
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4. The act of copulation in birds.
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5. (Arch.) The upper horizontal part of a step, on which the foot is placed.
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6. (Fort.) The top of the banquette, on which soldiers stand to fire over the parapet.
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7. (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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8. (Biol.) The chalaza of a bird's egg; the treadle.
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9. (Far.) A bruise or abrasion produced on the foot or ankle of a horse that interferes. See Interfere, 3.
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