trip

TRIP, verb transitive 1. To supplant; to cause to fall by striking the feet suddenly from under the person; usually followed by up; as, to trip up a man in wrestling; to trip up the heels. 2. To supplant; to overthrow by depriving of support. 3. To catch; to detect. 4. To loose an anchor from the bottom by its cable or buoy-rope. TRIP, verb intransitive To stumble; to strike the foot against something, so as to lose the step and come near to fall; or to stumble and fall. 1. To err; to fail; to mistake; to be deficient. Virgil pretends sometimes to trip TRIP, verb intransitive 1. To run or step lightly; to walk with a light step. She bounded by and tripp'd so light. They had not time to take a steady sight. Thus from the lion trips the trembling doe. 2. To take a voyage or journey. TRIP, noun A stroke or catch by which a wrestler supplants his antagonist. And watches with a trip his foe to foil. 1. A stumble by the loss of foot-hold, or a striking of the foot against an object. 2. A failure; a mistake. Each seeming trip and each digressive start. 3. A journey; or a voyage. I took a trip to London on the death of the queen. 4. In navigation, a single board in plying to windward. 5. Among farmers, a small flock of sheep, or a small stock of them. [Local.]