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Anything which serves for support; a staff; a prop; a crutch; a cane. His weak steps governing And aged limbs on cypress stadle stout. Spenser.

One step of a series for ascending or descending to a different level; -- commonly applied to those within a building.

A flight of stairs or steps; a staircase. "A rude and narrow stairway." Moore.

To walk with high and proud steps; usually implying the affectation of dignity, and indicating dislike. The word is used, however, especially by the poets, to express dignity of step. With manly mien he stalked along the ground. Dryden. Then stalking through the deep, He fords the ocean. Addison. I forbear myself from…

; to govern; -- applied especially to a vessel in the water. That with a staff his feeble steps did steer. Spenser.

A crossbar of wood in a shaft, serving as a step.

A step, or set of steps, for ascending and descending, in passing a fence or wall. There comes my master . . . over the stile, this way. Shak. Over this stile in the way to Doubting Castle. Bunyan.

A pole, or piece of wood, constructed with a step or loop to raise the foot above the ground in walking. It is sometimes lashed to the leg, and sometimes prolonged upward so as to be steadied by the hand or arm. Ambition is but avarice on stilts, and masked. Landor.

per to take stock of the results obtained by previous explorers of the same field. Leslie Stephen.

To pelt, beat, or kill with stones. And they stoned Stephen, calling upon God, and saying, Lord Jesus, receive my spirit. Acts vii. 59.

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. [U. S.]

alities put a stop to the improvement of natural philosophy. Sir I. Newton. It is a great step toward the mastery of our desires to give this stop to them. Locke.

forming one of a series, the working faces of which present the appearance of a flight of steps.

Stepped; gone; advanced. [Obs.] A poor widow, somedeal stope in age. Chaucer.

To walk with long steps, especially in a measured or pompous manner. Mars in the middle of the shining shield Is graved, and strides along the liquid field. Dryden.

The act of strutting; a pompous step or walk.

s; to strike the foot so as to fall, or to endanger a fall; to stagger because of a false step. There stumble steeds strong and down go all. Chaucer. The way of the wicked is as darkness: they know at what they stumble. Prov. iv. 19.

shall advance to the utmost pitch of impiety with less reluctance than he took the first steps. Atterbury.

readiness to submit; expressing submission; as, a submissive demeanor. With a submissive step I hasted down. Prior.

A sudden or unexpected coming or stepping on. [Obs.]