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ffense or crime; liable to penal seizure. Thy wealth being forfeit to the state. Shak. To tread the forfeit paradise. Emerson.

iful plight; wretched; miserable; almost hopeless; desperate. For here forlorn and lost I tread. Goldsmith. The condition of the besieged in the mean time was forlorn in the extreme. Prescott. She cherished the forlorn hope that he was still living. Thomson. A forlorn hope Etym: [D. verloren hoop, prop., a lost band or…

The tread, treadle, or chalasa of an egg.

ound, as sand under the feet; to grate; to grind. The sanded floor that grits beneath the tread. Goldsmith.

ice; to hear one call. Lay thine ear close to the ground, and list if thou canst hear the tread of travelers. Shak. He had been heard to utter an ominous growl. Macaulay.

o flee; to betake to flight. -- To throw up another's heels, to trip him. Bunyan. -- To tread upon one's heels, to follow closely. Shak.

To tread down roughly, as with hobnailed shoes. Your rights and charters hobnailed into slush. Tennyson.

ive score. Also, a symbol representing one hundred units, as 100 or C. With many hundreds treading on his heels. Shak.

Not solid or stable; insecure; precarious. He who fixes on false principles treads or infirm ground. South.

ning and boring metals, cutting screws, etc. -- Foot lathe, a lathe which is driven by a treadle worked by the foot. -- Geometric lathe. See under Geometric -- Hand lathe, a lathe operated by hand; a power turning lathe without an automatic feed for the tool. -- Slide lathe, an engine lathe. -- Throw lathe, a small…

a debauchee. Like a puffed and reckless libertine, Himself the primrose path of dalliance treads. Shak.

With little weight; with little force; as, to tread lightly; to press lightly. Yet shall thy grave with rising flowers be drest, And the green turf lie lightly on thy breast. Pope. Him thus intent Ithuriel with his spear Touched lightly. Milton.

garment; hence, to form an opinion of one's disposition, character, ability, etc. -- To tread a measure, to dance in the style so called. See 9 (a). Say to her, we have measured many miles To tread a measure with her on this grass. Shak.

in from speech or action. "My dagger muzzled." Shak. Thou shalt not muzzle the ox when he treadeth out the corn. Deut. xxv. 4.

neck, to grow obstinate; to be more and more perverse and rebellious. Neh. ix. 17. -- To tread on the neck of, to oppress; to tyrannize over.

That part of the treadboard of a stair which projects over the riser; hence, any like projection, as the projecting edge of a molding.

To abuse or oppress, as if by treading upon. None of them the feeble overran. Spenser.

To travel upon foot; to tread. [Obs.] Padding the streets for half a crown. Somerville.

To pad; to tread upon; to trample. [Prov. Eng.]

hey were passive spectators, not actors in the scene. The passive air Upbore their nimble tread. Milton. The mind is wholly passive in the reception of all its simple ideas. Locke.