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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Step \Step\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Stepped}; p. pr & vb n.
{Stepping}.] [AS. st[ae]ppan; akin to OFries steppa, D.
stappen to step, stap a step, OHG. stepfen to step, G. stapfe
a footstep, OHG. stapfo G. stufe a step to step on cf Gr
? to shake about handle roughly, stamp (?). Cf {Stamp}, n.
& a.]
1. To move the foot in walking; to advance or recede by
raising and moving one of the feet to another resting
place or by moving both feet in succession.
2. To walk; to go on foot; esp., to walk a little distance;
as to step to one of the neighbors.
3. To walk slowly, gravely, or resolutely.
Home the swain retreats, His flock before him
stepping to the fold. --Thomson.
4. Fig.: To move mentally; to go in imagination.
They are stepping almost three thousand years back
into the remotest antiquity. --Pope.
{To step aside}, to walk a little distance from the rest; to
retire from company.
{To step forth}, to move or come forth.
{To step} {in or into}.
a To walk or advance into a place or state, or to
advance suddenly in
Whosoever then first after the troubling of the
water, stepped in was made whole of whatsoever
disease he had --John v. 4.
b To enter for a short time; as I just stepped into the
house.
c To obtain possession without trouble; to enter upon
easily or suddenly; as to step into an estate.
{To step out}.
a (Mil.) To increase the length, but not the rapidity,
of the step, extending it to thirty-tree inches.
b To go out for a short distance or a short time.
{To step short} (Mil.), to diminish the length or rapidity of
the step according to the established rules
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