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Dance :: Dance (v. i.) To move with measured steps, or to a musical accompaniment; to go through, either alone or in company with others, with a regulated succession of movements, (commonly) to the sound of music; to trip or leap rhythmically..

Rudiment :: Rudiment (n.) Hence, an element or first principle of any art or science; a beginning of any knowledge; a first step..

Hobblingly :: Hobblingly (adv.) With a limping step.

Toe :: Toe (n.) The journal, or pivot, at the lower end of a revolving shaft or spindle, which rests in a step..

Trip :: 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..

Clamp :: Clamp (n.) A heavy footstep; a tramp.

Footpace :: Footpace (n.) A walking pace or step.

Tripping :: Tripping (a.) Quick; nimble; stepping lightly and quickly.

Flat-footed :: Flat-footed (a.) Having a flat foot, with little or no arch of the instep..

Diminish :: Diminish (v. t.) To make smaller by a half step; to make (an interval) less than minor; as, a diminished seventh..

Trip :: Trip (n.) A false step; a stumble; a misstep; a loss of footing or balance. Fig.: An error; a failure; a mistake.

Pace :: Pace (n.) A single movement from one foot to the other in walking; a step.

Toddle :: Toddle (v. i.) To walk with short, tottering steps, as a child..

Trippingly :: Trippingly (adv.) In a tripping manner; with a light, nimble, quick step; with agility; nimbly..

Chromatic :: Chromatic (a.) Proceeding by the smaller intervals (half steps or semitones) of the scale, instead of the regular intervals of the diatonic scale..

Grade :: Grade (n.) A step or degree in any series, rank, quality, order; relative position or standing; as, grades of military rank; crimes of every grade; grades of flour..

Gradient :: Gradient (a.) Moving by steps; walking; as, gradient automata..

Stoop :: Stoop (n.) Originally, a covered porch with seats, at a house door; the Dutch stoep as introduced by the Dutch into New York. Afterward, an out-of-door flight of stairs of from seven to fourteen steps, with platform and parapets, leading to an entrance door some distance above the street; the French perron. Hence, any porch, platform, entrance stairway, or small veranda, at a house door..

Newel :: Newel (n.) The upright post about which the steps of a circular staircase wind; hence, in stairs having straight flights, the principal post at the foot of a staircase, or the secondary ones at the landings. See Hollow newel, under Hollow..

Step :: Step (a.) Fig.: To move mentally; to go in imagination.

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