locomotion

Founding-era definition · Webster's 1828 American Dictionary

LOCOMO'TION, noun [Latin locus, place, and motio, motion.] 1. The act of moving from place to place. 2. The power of moving from place to place. Most animals possess locomotion; plants have life, but not locomotion
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