Definition of step

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Step (v. i.) In general, a framing in wood or iron which is intended to receive an upright shaft; specif., a block of wood, or a solid platform upon the keelson, supporting the heel of the mast..

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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..
Back :: Back (adv.) In, to, or toward, the rear; as, to stand back; to step back..
Mince :: Mince (v. i.) To walk with short steps; to walk in a prim, affected manner..
Grice :: Grice (n.) See Gree, a step..
Step :: Step (v. i.) A portable framework of stairs, much used indoors in reaching to a high position..
Light-footed :: Light-footed (a.) Having a light, springy step; nimble in running or dancing; active; as, light-foot Iris..
Step :: Step (a.) Fig.: To move mentally; to go in imagination.
Geordie :: Geordie (n.) A name given by miners to George Stephenson's safety lamp.
Descent :: Descent (n.) A step or remove downward in any scale of gradation; a degree in the scale of genealogy; a generation.
Interpose :: Interpose (v. i.) To step in between parties at variance; to mediate; as, the prince interposed and made peace..
Stepchild :: Stepbrother (n.) A brother by the marriage of one's father with the mother of another, or of one's mother with the father of another..
Footfall :: Footfall (n.) A setting down of the foot; a footstep; the sound of a footstep.
Begin :: Begin (v. i.) To do the first act or the first part of an action; to enter upon or commence something new, as a new form or state of being, or course of action; to take the first step; to start..
Within :: Within (prep.) Hence, inside the limits, reach, or influence of; not going outside of; not beyond, overstepping, exceeding, or the like..
Footstep :: Footstep (n.) An inclined plane under a hand printing press.
Echelon :: Echelon (n.) An arrangement of a body of troops when its divisions are drawn up in parallel lines each to the right or the left of the one in advance of it, like the steps of a ladder in position for climbing. Also used adjectively; as, echelon distance..
Gradine :: Gradine (n.) Any member like a step, as the raised back of an altar or the like; a set raised over another..
Tread :: Tread (n.) Manner or style of stepping; action; gait; as, the horse has a good tread..
Overstepped :: Overstepped (imp. & p. p.) of Overste.
Step :: Stepping (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Ste.
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